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Yep, I'm one of those people. I would like to continue to cache during the month of August, but I don't want these silly souvenirs.

 

Is there some unpublished method to remove souvenirs?

 

I wonder if there would be a way to hide specific souvenrs with AdBlocker Plus. I know that it's been used hide other things on the site.

 

 

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Yep, I'm one of those people. I would like to continue to cache during the month of August, but I don't want these silly souvenirs.

 

Is there some unpublished method to remove souvenirs?

 

I wonder if there would be a way to hide specific souvenrs with AdBlocker Plus. I know that it's been used hide other things on the site.

AdBlock+ can hide the picture, but the caption/link is still there.

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Yep, I'm one of those people. I would like to continue to cache during the month of August, but I don't want these silly souvenirs.

 

Is there some unpublished method to remove souvenirs?

 

Aren't they already well hidden? You have to physically click on a tab to see them right? I don't really understand all the souvenir bashing going on, seems kinda silly :unsure: .

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At least allow people to select which souvenirs they wish to display. Like a showcase.

 

I've only glanced at the page a couple of times. But it looks like on my 13th souvenir, the page will be full and I'll have to scroll. They occupy a lot of space on that page, for their size. What about people who have lots of souvenirs? Is there a plan to allow organizing or compressing them into categories? This feature seems unfinished.

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Yep, I'm one of those people. I would like to continue to cache during the month of August, but I don't want these silly souvenirs.

 

Is there some unpublished method to remove souvenirs?

 

Aren't they already well hidden? You have to physically click on a tab to see them right? I don't really understand all the souvenir bashing going on, seems kinda silly :unsure: .

 

I realize that people do not have to look at their souvenirs and I hope that most users have better things to do with their time than to see what people have collected. But most souvenirs I have in my house are things I wanted, and I would like to decide if I want them on my profile or not. I do not understand why Groundspeak insists on forcing them on users.

 

There have been discussions about this (and the August souvenirs in particular) on the feature discussions and suggestions section, but Groundspeak has not enlightened me.

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Is there some unpublished method to remove souvenirs?

Are you deleting them all manually? What if Groundspeak decides to extend this for, say, another ten years? ;)

 

“Due to the popularity of '31 Numbers in August', we've decided to continue the souvenirs every day until 2023! It's a celebration of '3653 Numbers in the Decade'! Every day you find a cache until July 31st, 2023, you're awarded a souvenir with a completely different number, all the way up to the number 3653. Enjoy!”

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Is there some unpublished method to remove souvenirs?

Okay, I'll be the first to actually answer the question.

 

Yes, there is a method to have them removed, though it isn't one you can do completely on your own. You can email contact@geocaching.com and ask them to manually remove the souvenir(s). If you think you'll be finding caches on other days in August, I suggest waiting until September and emailing once with all the ones you want them to remove rather than an email for each one.

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Is there some unpublished method to remove souvenirs?

Okay, I'll be the first to actually answer the question.

 

Yes, there is a method to have them removed, though it isn't one you can do completely on your own. You can email contact@geocaching.com and ask them to manually remove the souvenir(s). If you think you'll be finding caches on other days in August, I suggest waiting until September and emailing once with all the ones you want them to remove rather than an email for each one.

 

If you got one or two accidentally I can see them deleting those but i think any requests to have all the souvenirs deleted will be denied.

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If you got one or two accidentally I can see them deleting those but i think any requests to have all the souvenirs deleted will be denied.

 

I agree, I can see potentially thousands of people wanting potentially dozens of souvenirs deleting each, so I think GS might decide it's too much effort and deny such requests.

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Is there some unpublished method to remove souvenirs?

Okay, I'll be the first to actually answer the question.

 

Yes, there is a method to have them removed, though it isn't one you can do completely on your own. You can email contact@geocaching.com and ask them to manually remove the souvenir(s). If you think you'll be finding caches on other days in August, I suggest waiting until September and emailing once with all the ones you want them to remove rather than an email for each one.

 

I keep reading this, but what makes everyone so sure that they will remove them? In the past, they have removed them when they were awarded in error. This a much different situation.

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On a corollary note, how can I delete the forums? They're so ugly, and take up too much room on my geocaching homepage. And always full of people whining about silly stuff.

 

Yep, I'm one of those people. wink.gif

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I'm not sure where people come up with the idea that they should have control over every aspect of their geocaching.com profile. There is a certain portion of the profile where Groundspeak allows you to post whatever you like (so long as it complies the the TOUs). Other than that, the geocaching.com profile is put there by Groundspeaks to report on the your geocaching activities.

 

There is some precedent for giving some control here. You are allowed to specify which sections of the statistics tab you want to have displayed and can provide some information to override your milestones. So it is conceivable that Groundspeak could decide to allow users to specify which souvenirs they want displayed.

 

One issue is that hiding of some feature is never as simple as it seems. There are often cases where people change their minds. Or where they may not want to display a souvenir but still want to see whether they qualify for it. When Grounspeak provided the ignore list to allow people to ignore certain caches they ran into a similar problem. Some people wanted the ignored caches to disappear entirely from the maps and all queries. Now there are frequent request to have certain queries include the ignored caches. Particulary when someone is placing a cache, they can't see on the map or in a search if there is an ignored cache within .1 miles. The experience with the ignore list may have taught Groundspeak that it is difficult to implement something like this and please everyone.

 

The forums are full of requests to be able to ignore or hide all sorts of different aspects of geocaching that someone would prefer to not see. I suppose the Groundspeak staff could be kept busy just implementing all these requests. I suspect that each of these request is looked at to see how critical this is for people to be able to enjoy geocaching. There are likely many requests that would have a higner priority than the ability to hide particular souvenirs.

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I'm all for the souvenirs myself, gonna have 98 by Aug 31, but seems to me that maybe Groundspeak can do something like give you the option of which tabs you want displayed in the quick view on your profile page with a simple checklist in users profile. Sounds simple enough, but the programming part is probably a nightmare. I, myself would really like to be able to move TB's of mine away from my inventory when they go into the great "unknown" region, but that is a wishlist item.

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Place a tiny piece of duct tape over that highly obtrusive and offensive Souvenirs tab.

 

So, I'm heading through Phoenix and stop to spend a little time with my Grandmother at the retirement apartment home. She's 87 at the time. I'm sitting there and she has her "soaps" on the TV and I notice that there is no clock on the VCR. I get up and look and it's covered with black electrical tape. She couldn't get the darn thing to stop blinking.

 

Twenty years later, we have Ad Block Plus.

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...I notice that there is no clock on the VCR. I get up and look and it's covered with black electrical tape. She couldn't get the darn thing to stop blinking.

That's one of my favorite examples of we-know-better arrogance. Somewhere in an engineering office for VCR design, someone decided that having the time properly set was SO important that the unit would annoy the owner until they complied.

 

Meanwhile at Groundspeak marketing...

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This ABP filter will hide the 31 Days souvenirs but leaves an empty space where the souvenir would be...I've never written a ABP filter before so there may be a better way to do it.

 

geocaching.com##a[title^=31 Days]

 

That will delete any link (anchor tag) with a title attribute that starts with "31 Days". Since both the thumbnail image and the label underneath are both links it hides both.

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If it were only one souvenir, in a calendar configuration, with the days you logged a cache filled in with that days artwork.... I'd like that. Well, like is a bit strong. I'd wouldn't dislike it as much as I do the spectre of 31 individual whoopty-doos...

 

The trouble with that approach is they'd need an awful lot of calendar images to cater for every possible combination, actually 2,147,483,647 possible, though in reality it would be less than ~5,000,000 as that's how many cachers there are, still it would be a lot of work to create them all.

 

What I would have preferred is they would work out the longest streak you had in August, which would only require a few lines of code, then give 1 souvenir saying "I had a streak of ? days in August 2013", that would only require 31 icons. Then they could have made the icon for, say 29 days a bronze medal, 30 a silver medal, and 31 days a gold medal.

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The problem with one souvenir for the whole month is that it would require the system to check every date in August to see if you had a qualifier on that date. Souvenirs aren't set up that way. Every souvenir out there (I believe) only requires one cache to qualify.

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If they bother you that much use Firefox and maybe someone will write a Greasmonkey script that will hide them for you. I wager someone is working on that right now.

 

I simply don't click on the the tab. The whole thing reminds me of people complaining about certain TV programs. Don't click on those channels and you don't want to watch them.

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If they bother you that much use Firefox and maybe someone will write a Greasmonkey script that will hide them for you. I wager someone is working on that right now.

 

I simply don't click on the the tab. The whole thing reminds me of people complaining about certain TV programs. Don't click on those channels and you don't want to watch them.

 

See my earlier post (#21). It shows what one can use with AdBlocker Plus (ABP) to hide the "31 Days" souvenirs. It's not perfect, as it still leaves an empty spot on the souvenirs page where the souvenir thumbnails and link would be displayed, but at least it hides the artwork. The same thing could be done with a greasemonkey script.

 

The difficulty is that every souvenir image and link is wrapped with a <div> tag (without any attributes), thus an ABP or Greasemonkey script can't distinguish between a "31 days" souvenir and a souvenir for Northwest Territories in Australia. Ideally, GS could include a "souvenir type" attribute in the div element and then one could remove the entire element or even sort the elements by type.

 

The TV analogy is actually a good one for what the OP is asking for (and there is a similar request in the Features forum). With television programming all the content is organized into channels, thus if I wan't to watch a sports event I can select ESPN or other channel which has sports content and look through the programs to find the one I want to watch. I don't have to look at spanish soap operas because they're in another channel. Now imagine if there was only one TV channel. I'd have to look at program listings for spanish soap operas, food network reality shows, and golf tournaments from 2002 before I could find the listing for the hockey game I want to watch. That's what the souvenir page is like now.

 

 

 

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One issue is that hiding of some feature is never as simple as it seems. There are often cases where people change their minds. Or where they may not want to display a souvenir but still want to see whether they qualify for it. When Grounspeak provided the ignore list to allow people to ignore certain caches they ran into a similar problem. Some people wanted the ignored caches to disappear entirely from the maps and all queries. Now there are frequent request to have certain queries include the ignored caches. Particulary when someone is placing a cache, they can't see on the map or in a search if there is an ignored cache within .1 miles. The experience with the ignore list may have taught Groundspeak that it is difficult to implement something like this and please everyone.

 

If someone changes their mind and decides they want it back there's a reasonable case to say that's just too bad - if you delete a souvenir it's gone until you earn it again. For a geographic souvenir you'd have to find another cache in the relevant area, for a date-based souvenir you'd have to either misdate a log or accept it was gone forever.

 

The forums are full of requests to be able to ignore or hide all sorts of different aspects of geocaching that someone would prefer to not see. I suppose the Groundspeak staff could be kept busy just implementing all these requests. I suspect that each of these request is looked at to see how critical this is for people to be able to enjoy geocaching. There are likely many requests that would have a higner priority than the ability to hide particular souvenirs.

 

There are undoubtedly many requests that one might have thought would take a higher priority than introducing 31 souvenirs, but obviously Groundspeak's sense of priorities is not what many of us might expect.

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The TV analogy is actually a good one for what the OP is asking for (and there is a similar request in the Features forum). With television programming all the content is organized into channels, thus if I wan't to watch a sports event I can select ESPN or other channel which has sports content and look through the programs to find the one I want to watch. I don't have to look at spanish soap operas because they're in another channel. Now imagine if there was only one TV channel. I'd have to look at program listings for spanish soap operas, food network reality shows, and golf tournaments from 2002 before I could find the listing for the hockey game I want to watch. That's what the souvenir page is like now.

Maybe. But you are paying for channels you don't watch as they are part of your cable package. You might have a choice what premium channels you get but the basic includes the Spanish language soap operas whether you watch or not.

 

I'm still waiting till Groundspeak drops the Canadian souvenirs because of a dispute with Cananda over how much royalty they want for the use of the images of the provinces. :ph34r:

 

One issue is that hiding of some feature is never as simple as it seems. There are often cases where people change their minds. Or where they may not want to display a souvenir but still want to see whether they qualify for it. When Grounspeak provided the ignore list to allow people to ignore certain caches they ran into a similar problem. Some people wanted the ignored caches to disappear entirely from the maps and all queries. Now there are frequent request to have certain queries include the ignored caches. Particulary when someone is placing a cache, they can't see on the map or in a search if there is an ignored cache within .1 miles. The experience with the ignore list may have taught Groundspeak that it is difficult to implement something like this and please everyone.

 

If someone changes their mind and decides they want it back there's a reasonable case to say that's just too bad - if you delete a souvenir it's gone until you earn it again. For a geographic souvenir you'd have to find another cache in the relevant area, for a date-based souvenir you'd have to either misdate a log or accept it was gone forever.

Someone will click the wrong one to hide by accident and will be very upset if Groundspeak wont put it back. The forums will be full of request to "put back my souvie".

 

Certainly, Groundspeak can decide which part of the requirement to hide certain souvenirs is reasonable and worth implementing, so perhaps they would decide that once you've "decline" a souvenir it will be permanently blocked. My belief is that if they were to decide to implement some kind of block then they need to consider the consequences.

The forums are full of requests to be able to ignore or hide all sorts of different aspects of geocaching that someone would prefer to not see. I suppose the Groundspeak staff could be kept busy just implementing all these requests. I suspect that each of these request is looked at to see how critical this is for people to be able to enjoy geocaching. There are likely many requests that would have a higner priority than the ability to hide particular souvenirs.

 

There are undoubtedly many requests that one might have thought would take a higher priority than introducing 31 souvenirs, but obviously Groundspeak's sense of priorities is not what many of us might expect.

The capability to award date based souvenirs already exists. (Unlike new country based souvenirs, which needs special one time code to retroactively award the souvie). The programming team was not needed to implement 31 days of August. This can be done by marketing and perhaps one graphic artist.

 

BTW, I get the impression that Groundspeak may be understaffed in the programming department and overstaffed with marketers and graphic artists. Seems that all they do is change the style of the website and add souvenirs. Maybe they need to hire some more programmers? :unsure:

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One issue is that hiding of some feature is never as simple as it seems. There are often cases where people change their minds. Or where they may not want to display a souvenir but still want to see whether they qualify for it. When Grounspeak provided the ignore list to allow people to ignore certain caches they ran into a similar problem. Some people wanted the ignored caches to disappear entirely from the maps and all queries. Now there are frequent request to have certain queries include the ignored caches. Particulary when someone is placing a cache, they can't see on the map or in a search if there is an ignored cache within .1 miles. The experience with the ignore list may have taught Groundspeak that it is difficult to implement something like this and please everyone.

 

If someone changes their mind and decides they want it back there's a reasonable case to say that's just too bad - if you delete a souvenir it's gone until you earn it again. For a geographic souvenir you'd have to find another cache in the relevant area, for a date-based souvenir you'd have to either misdate a log or accept it was gone forever.

Someone will click the wrong one to hide by accident and will be very upset if Groundspeak wont put it back. The forums will be full of request to "put back my souvie".

 

Certainly, Groundspeak can decide which part of the requirement to hide certain souvenirs is reasonable and worth implementing, so perhaps they would decide that once you've "decline" a souvenir it will be permanently blocked. My belief is that if they were to decide to implement some kind of block then they need to consider the consequences.

 

So put up a confirmation box that says "are you sure you want to delete your New Zealand souvenir? This action cannot be undone." - if someone still says they want to delete it then it's gone forever. The only people who will use the feature are people with strong feelings that they don't want particular souvenirs, so they get to be careful with the tools they asked for.

 

The forums are full of requests to be able to ignore or hide all sorts of different aspects of geocaching that someone would prefer to not see. I suppose the Groundspeak staff could be kept busy just implementing all these requests. I suspect that each of these request is looked at to see how critical this is for people to be able to enjoy geocaching. There are likely many requests that would have a higner priority than the ability to hide particular souvenirs.

 

There are undoubtedly many requests that one might have thought would take a higher priority than introducing 31 souvenirs, but obviously Groundspeak's sense of priorities is not what many of us might expect.

The capability to award date based souvenirs already exists. (Unlike new country based souvenirs, which needs special one time code to retroactively award the souvie). The programming team was not needed to implement 31 days of August. This can be done by marketing and perhaps one graphic artist.

 

BTW, I get the impression that Groundspeak may be understaffed in the programming department and overstaffed with marketers and graphic artists. Seems that all they do is change the style of the website and add souvenirs. Maybe they need to hire some more programmers? :unsure:

 

Given the quality and variation in the August souvenirs so far the "graphic artists" could be a single 12-year-old.

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So put up a confirmation box that says "are you sure you want to delete your New Zealand souvenir? This action cannot be undone." - if someone still says they want to delete it then it's gone forever. The only people who will use the feature are people with strong feelings that they don't want particular souvenirs, so they get to be careful with the tools they asked for.

 

 

I have had 2 souvenirs removed, one state and one province souvenir as I got them from travelling caches. I will some day visit that state and province and would like to get the souvenir when I do thus I do not like the idea of deleting them permanently but it wouldn't be a bad idea to be able to delete them as if you never found them and be able to get them back if ever you want.

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BTW, I get the impression that Groundspeak may be understaffed in the programming department and overstaffed with marketers and graphic artists. Seems that all they do is change the style of the website and add souvenirs. Maybe they need to hire some more programmers? :unsure:

I had the feeling that the Souvenirs were a promotional thing, intended to be in view. People browsing the site see Biker64's pages and pages of cool Souvenirs, and want to collect those. "Souvenirs" are all over video games, where you can typically delete "stickers", not all trophies. You can organize them a little.

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If they bother you that much use Firefox and maybe someone will write a Greasmonkey script that will hide them for you. I wager someone is working on that right now.

 

I simply don't click on the the tab. The whole thing reminds me of people complaining about certain TV programs. Don't click on those channels and you don't want to watch them.

 

But, what about the children?

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There are undoubtedly many requests that one might have thought would take a higher priority than introducing 31 souvenirs, but obviously Groundspeak's sense of priorities is not what many of us might expect.

 

Their priority is to get people to go geocaching. To measure if people are geocaching, they need people to log geocaches. So far, four days in, the promotion is working. I watch a lot of caches in my area and in three days will typically see about 60-75 logs. For the first three days of August, there were around 220.

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One issue is that hiding of some feature is never as simple as it seems. There are often cases where people change their minds. Or where they may not want to display a souvenir but still want to see whether they qualify for it. When Grounspeak provided the ignore list to allow people to ignore certain caches they ran into a similar problem. Some people wanted the ignored caches to disappear entirely from the maps and all queries. Now there are frequent request to have certain queries include the ignored caches. Particulary when someone is placing a cache, they can't see on the map or in a search if there is an ignored cache within .1 miles. The experience with the ignore list may have taught Groundspeak that it is difficult to implement something like this and please everyone.

 

If someone changes their mind and decides they want it back there's a reasonable case to say that's just too bad - if you delete a souvenir it's gone until you earn it again. For a geographic souvenir you'd have to find another cache in the relevant area, for a date-based souvenir you'd have to either misdate a log or accept it was gone forever.

Someone will click the wrong one to hide by accident and will be very upset if Groundspeak wont put it back. The forums will be full of request to "put back my souvie".

 

Certainly, Groundspeak can decide which part of the requirement to hide certain souvenirs is reasonable and worth implementing, so perhaps they would decide that once you've "decline" a souvenir it will be permanently blocked. My belief is that if they were to decide to implement some kind of block then they need to consider the consequences.

 

So put up a confirmation box that says "are you sure you want to delete your New Zealand souvenir? This action cannot be undone." - if someone still says they want to delete it then it's gone forever. The only people who will use the feature are people with strong feelings that they don't want particular souvenirs, so they get to be careful with the tools they asked for.

I think we're quibbling over trivialities here (which may be appropriate :) ).

 

If Groundspeak were to decide that they should support the ability of individuals to accept or decline a souvenir, it would behoove them to considered all the possibilities and not just throw together something that works as poorly as the solution they came up with for ignoring caches or the ones they have tries as replacements for virtual caches.

 

Yes, I agree that they could decide that once a person has declined a souvenir, few would want to to undo this. So they could either decide not to implement any undo, or to say that if you want to have it undone you need to contact Groundspeak and wait for some lackey to make the change.

 

I don't want to design the solution that Groundspeak comes up with. In fact my position is that Groundspeak could decide that hiding souvenirs is not that pressing of a requirement and that they do nothing.

 

What happens is that Groundspeak does something that upsets a few people. These people then ask for a way to "opt-out" of the new feature. It seems almost too good a fix. Everyone gets to see only the parts of the website they want. Soon there is more code to pick and choose the parts of geocaching.cm that you want to see than there is code to manage geocaches. People complain because something on the site stopped working. It turns out that a programmer used the flag to hide souvenirs the wrong way and now someone can't find the forum. Ah! I'm beginning to like the idea more and more :ph34r:

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So put up a confirmation box that says "are you sure you want to delete your New Zealand souvenir? This action cannot be undone." - if someone still says they want to delete it then it's gone forever. The only people who will use the feature are people with strong feelings that they don't want particular souvenirs, so they get to be careful with the tools they asked for.

 

 

I have had 2 souvenirs removed, one state and one province souvenir as I got them from travelling caches. I will some day visit that state and province and would like to get the souvenir when I do thus I do not like the idea of deleting them permanently but it wouldn't be a bad idea to be able to delete them as if you never found them and be able to get them back if ever you want.

 

When I said "it's gone forever" I meant in the sense you couldn't just undo your decision to delete it. If you delete a cache for a particular area then if you qualify for it again you earn it again. If you delete a cache for a particular date then to earn it again you'd need to log a cache retrospectively.

 

Most people unhappy with the souvenirs are unhappy with the date-based ones, and if you delete your souvenir for August 5 you're not going to earn it again unless you deliberately backdate a log to claim it.

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There are undoubtedly many requests that one might have thought would take a higher priority than introducing 31 souvenirs, but obviously Groundspeak's sense of priorities is not what many of us might expect.

 

Their priority is to get people to go geocaching. To measure if people are geocaching, they need people to log geocaches. So far, four days in, the promotion is working. I watch a lot of caches in my area and in three days will typically see about 60-75 logs. For the first three days of August, there were around 220.

 

... except it's probably not as simple as that. Some people will specifically go out and cache more to get the souvenirs, some people will shift caching activity from July into August (meaning less activity in July) and some will make an effort to get all 31 of the souvenirs only to then take time out in September as everything local has been mopped up.

 

I suspect their priority is to get people to pay for premium memberships and mobile apps regardless of whether they actually go geocaching or not. Having lots of logs coming through is all well and good but I bet they'd rather two people bought a premium membership and never used it than 100 basic members found 100 caches each without generating any revenue at all. Especially if those 100 basic members used ad blockers.

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This is something that i doesn't affect me one way or another but i thought i'd offer up an idea. It's not the perfect solution by any means but it might help some of you who want to see only certain souvenirs on a page. I just tried it with my PictureIt software. Added 10 souvenirs from my collection and then added captions under the first 4. This took about 10 minutes but i have no doubt that it will be faster once the basics are done.

 

Right click on the souvenir you like and "save picture as". Open up a blank page and then paste the souvi icons to it. Arrange the way you like, add a caption underneath if you like, then save the whole thing. You can save it to your computer or post it on the web. I may be totally wrong but i'm thinking this might be done in a word type program or on a webpage where links could be added as well.

 

Here's my sample page. Note that the image here is smaller than it's normal size.

 

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Right click on the souvenir you like and "save picture as". Open up a blank page and then paste the souvi icons to it. Arrange the way you like, add a caption underneath if you like, then save the whole thing.

That's pretty cool! You could even save the whole Souvenir page, edit it to display just the ones you like, and paste that HTML onto your main Profile. Then they'd be clickable, to show the full Souvenir.

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Right click on the souvenir you like and "save picture as". Open up a blank page and then paste the souvi icons to it. Arrange the way you like, add a caption underneath if you like, then save the whole thing.

That's pretty cool! You could even save the whole Souvenir page, edit it to display just the ones you like, and paste that HTML onto your main Profile. Then they'd be clickable, to show the full Souvenir.

 

That's actually a really good idea and fairly easy to do even for someone with limited HTML skills....I think I may do that...but I'm going to use Funnynoses souvenir page ph34r.gif.

 

 

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So put up a confirmation box that says "are you sure you want to delete your New Zealand souvenir? This action cannot be undone." - if someone still says they want to delete it then it's gone forever. The only people who will use the feature are people with strong feelings that they don't want particular souvenirs, so they get to be careful with the tools they asked for.

 

 

I have had 2 souvenirs removed, one state and one province souvenir as I got them from travelling caches. I will some day visit that state and province and would like to get the souvenir when I do thus I do not like the idea of deleting them permanently but it wouldn't be a bad idea to be able to delete them as if you never found them and be able to get them back if ever you want.

 

This isn't rocket science and probably not even advanced programming. It's all over the web.

 

"Hide from Profile Y/N", and at the bottom, Show Hidden Souvenirs with "Show in Profile Y/N" attached to the hidden ones.

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If anyone's interested I've helped a friend to display her souvenirs on her main profile page, no need to save the images anywhere, or edit any pictures.

 

Just figure out the URL for the souvenir image you're interested in, then edit your profile page, and stick in a line like this:-

 

<img border="0" src="http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6158/6189302383_68c310ae17.jpg" width="100" height="150" title="England, awarded on 1-Mar-2009" />

 

inserting the URL for the souvenir in the "src=" section. The text in the "title=" section will come up when you hover over the icon. As more images are added they will automatically align themselves across the page and then wrap to a new line as you adjust the browser setting. You can play around with the width and height values, those are just values which seemed esthetically pleasing for me. You can also use this to display any image, not just the official GS icons.

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If they bother you that much use Firefox and maybe someone will write a Greasmonkey script that will hide them for you. I wager someone is working on that right now.

 

I simply don't click on the the tab. The whole thing reminds me of people complaining about certain TV programs. Don't click on those channels and you don't want to watch them.

 

I don't go to my souvenir page, but that doesn't mean that I want it full of souvenirs I do not like if someone else visits it.

 

I don't collect souvenirs, Groundspeak forces them on me, I just think that as a customer, I should be able to choose.

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So put up a confirmation box that says "are you sure you want to delete your New Zealand souvenir? This action cannot be undone." - if someone still says they want to delete it then it's gone forever. The only people who will use the feature are people with strong feelings that they don't want particular souvenirs, so they get to be careful with the tools they asked for.

 

 

I have had 2 souvenirs removed, one state and one province souvenir as I got them from travelling caches. I will some day visit that state and province and would like to get the souvenir when I do thus I do not like the idea of deleting them permanently but it wouldn't be a bad idea to be able to delete them as if you never found them and be able to get them back if ever you want.

 

This isn't rocket science and probably not even advanced programming. It's all over the web.

 

"Hide from Profile Y/N", and at the bottom, Show Hidden Souvenirs with "Show in Profile Y/N" attached to the hidden ones.

 

Another option that a couple have suggested would be the ability for us to "claim" a souvenir. GS could award a souvenir to those that qualify, then send out a "You have been awarded a souvenir" notification with a link to a page for claiming the souvenir. Once a souvenir is claimed it will show up on your profile, otherwise it could go onto an "Unclaimed Souvenirs" page.

 

 

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So put up a confirmation box that says "are you sure you want to delete your New Zealand souvenir? This action cannot be undone." - if someone still says they want to delete it then it's gone forever. The only people who will use the feature are people with strong feelings that they don't want particular souvenirs, so they get to be careful with the tools they asked for.

 

 

I have had 2 souvenirs removed, one state and one province souvenir as I got them from travelling caches. I will some day visit that state and province and would like to get the souvenir when I do thus I do not like the idea of deleting them permanently but it wouldn't be a bad idea to be able to delete them as if you never found them and be able to get them back if ever you want.

 

This isn't rocket science and probably not even advanced programming. It's all over the web.

 

"Hide from Profile Y/N", and at the bottom, Show Hidden Souvenirs with "Show in Profile Y/N" attached to the hidden ones.

 

Another option that a couple have suggested would be the ability for us to "claim" a souvenir. GS could award a souvenir to those that qualify, then send out a "You have been awarded a souvenir" notification with a link to a page for claiming the souvenir. Once a souvenir is claimed it will show up on your profile, otherwise it could go onto an "Unclaimed Souvenirs" page.

 

Brilliant!!

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If they bother you that much use Firefox and maybe someone will write a Greasmonkey script that will hide them for you. I wager someone is working on that right now.

 

I simply don't click on the the tab. The whole thing reminds me of people complaining about certain TV programs. Don't click on those channels and you don't want to watch them.

 

I don't go to my souvenir page, but that doesn't mean that I want it full of souvenirs I do not like if someone else visits it.

 

I don't collect souvenirs, Groundspeak forces them on me, I just think that as a customer, I should be able to choose.

I think every one knows that the souvenirs on your page are automatically awarded by Groundspeak. It's not as if anyone will think less of you because you have 30/31 August souvenirs.

 

However you could always put a statement on your profile pages like I have on mine if you want people to know that you didn't alter your geocaching activity on account of the souvenirs.

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I'm seriously having a very difficult time trying to figure out how it matters to anyone but the most obsessive-compulsive folks out there. It's not like one has to slog through a page of souvenirs to access another part of the site. It's practically hidden in a dark corner of your profile. What do you do when you go there? You click the back button. Are there actually people who browse souvenirs like some virtual gallery? I don't even know if the TV channel analogy is completely adequate, unless we're talking about those channels up in the range we generally don't even bother skimming by. The souvenirs are like channels over 600 on DirecTV. I don't even know what they are, much less care enough to look.

 

As for the 31 days of August thing...I'm participating. Not for the souvenirs, but just because until now my longest streak has been 11 days...so this is as good a time as any to try for a longer streak. I can almost guarantee you I probably never will go look to see if all 31 souvenirs show up on my profile.

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So put up a confirmation box that says "are you sure you want to delete your New Zealand souvenir? This action cannot be undone." - if someone still says they want to delete it then it's gone forever. The only people who will use the feature are people with strong feelings that they don't want particular souvenirs, so they get to be careful with the tools they asked for.

 

 

I have had 2 souvenirs removed, one state and one province souvenir as I got them from travelling caches. I will some day visit that state and province and would like to get the souvenir when I do thus I do not like the idea of deleting them permanently but it wouldn't be a bad idea to be able to delete them as if you never found them and be able to get them back if ever you want.

 

This isn't rocket science and probably not even advanced programming. It's all over the web.

 

"Hide from Profile Y/N", and at the bottom, Show Hidden Souvenirs with "Show in Profile Y/N" attached to the hidden ones.

 

Woah! You and I agreeing on something that relates to souvenirs. You know what this means...

 

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