Etiquette on splitting a shared account

[+CowboyMonkey]

Need the wisdom of the community here. My daughter has been with me on several but not all of my caching finds since I started a couple of years back. She's now old enough that she wants her own account so I've set her up separate from my own.

 

Is it acceptable to go back and log finds that she participated on with me on her account?

 

I've seen this done by a few other people but wasn't sure if that was proper etiquette or not. I appreciate the feedback!

[+The Blorenges]

It's done a lot, and most cache owners are happy enough to allow the re-logging in these circumstances.

 

Your daughter's logs should be back-dated to when she was actually at the cache and it would be polite to include a brief explanation so that the CO understands what's being done, e.g. "I found this cache with CowboyMonkey but I'm now logging it under my new, separate account name."

 

MrsB

[+Dame Deco]

Yes--she should log away.

 

ETA: as the post above says--make sure to backdate them and say why, etc.

 

And except in very rare cases of locked cache pages, you can even backlog archived caches.

Edited March 18, 2013 by Dame Deco

[+MartyBartfast]

It's done a lot, and most cache owners are happy enough to allow the re-logging in these circumstances.

 

Your daughter's logs should be back-dated to when she was actually at the cache and it would be polite to include a brief explanation so that the CO understands what's being done, e.g. "I found this cache with CowboyMonkey but I'm now logging it under my new, separate account name."

 

MrsB

Yep, I've done exactly that for my 2 kids and wife and had no complaints.

[+StarBrand]

I commonly see backdated logs for just that reason - be sure to include enough details to fully explain what is going on.

[+CowboyMonkey]

Thanks everyone for all of the advice. Going back thru and bookmarking the one's we shared now!

[+dprovan]

Yes, it's fine, but I don't think I'd do it. If I were her, I'd consider my new account the symbol of a new caching career statistically unrelated to my previous cache hunting with you. That leaves her free to go back and revisit some of the ones you visited together if she wants, or just move on to bigger and better caches.