Is This a Spoof?

[+Poker70]

My brother PokerLuck is coming up from Tennessee next week for 6 days of Geocaching and I've been scouting for some good ones. I came across this- GC4Q5M3. I'm wondering, is this deliberate, that the CO is prompting finders to log poorly punctuated and spelled logs in a humorous way? Or would doing so embarrass the CO? I'm not really good at understanding satire, parody or sarcasm

[+MartyBartfast]

I would say it's not a spoof.

Look at the CO's profile, it seems to be a schoolkid.

Look at his other hides, lack of punctuation, bad grammar, and poor spelling seems to be the norm.

 

I would just log it like any other cache.

[+Harry Dolphin]

My brother PokerLuck is coming up from Tennessee next week for 6 days of Geocaching and I've been scouting for some good ones. I came across this- GC4Q5M3. I'm wondering, is this deliberate, that the CO is prompting finders to log poorly punctuated and spelled logs in a humorous way? Or would doing so embarrass the CO? I'm not really good at understanding satire, parody or sarcasm

 

Sometimes there is humor involved in bad English. This does not seem to be the case here.

[+K13]

CO profile says he is in Middle School. A very prolific cacher, though. Over 1200 finds & over 100 hides. Maybe he should spend a little more time on spelling and grammar homework, instead of caching. Nah.

[+hukilaulau]

I'm not really good at understanding satire, parody or sarcasm

I'm pretty sure this is none of the above. I believe if people would take a deeper look into the situation, they would find an enthusiastic, energetic young man who is trying to share something joyful with others, with support and assistance from his family and community.

[+DragonsWest]

I was offered a "virtual find" on a cache by the CO for posting this note

[+badger10]

I was offered a "virtual find" on a cache by the CO for posting this note

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If I ever get to that neck of the woods I will make sure I Find that cache. Love those logs!

[+Don_J]

CO profile says he is in Middle School. A very prolific cacher, though. Over 1200 finds & over 100 hides. Maybe he should spend a little more time on spelling and grammar homework, instead of caching. Nah.

 

We have one around here. He posted a new cache entitled "Bake two scool cache". I posted a note, "Just in time...". He deleted it.

[+K13]

CO profile says he is in Middle School. A very prolific cacher, though. Over 1200 finds & over 100 hides. Maybe he should spend a little more time on spelling and grammar homework, instead of caching. Nah.

 

We have one around here. He posted a new cache entitled "Bake two scool cache". I posted a note, "Just in time...". He deleted it.

 

Was that one near a culinary academy?

[+J Grouchy]

There's an obscure german word for what I feel when I see that sort of thing... fremdschämen.

 

Sometimes I wish the reviewers would step in and make corrections or, at the very least, post a comment to the CO prior to publication about the spelling and grammatical errors.

[+rosebud55112]

I've jokingly considered placing a "Chalenge of a Cenchury: Mispelled Cash Names" where you have to log 100 caches with a typo in their titles, but had these three thoughts:

 

1. I don't want to point out other people's errors in public. It's kind of rude--although I am guilty of doing it anyway at times.

 

2. Sometimes an apparent typo is done intentionally, as a clue or a pun.

 

3. Challenge caches need to include the word 'Challenge', and mine would include the nonword 'Chalenge' instead.

[+larryc43230]

There's an obscure german word for what I feel when I see that sort of thing... fremdschämen.

Great word there. It's on a par with perhaps my favorite word in German, Schadenfreude. There's no easy way to translate either word into English.

 

--Larry

[+Corp Of Discovery]

I'm not really good at understanding satire, parody or sarcasm

I'm pretty sure this is none of the above. I believe if people would take a deeper look into the situation, they would find an enthusiastic, energetic young man who is trying to share something joyful with others, with support and assistance from his family and community.

 

This.

 

It's not a spoof. The young man who owns the cache is a good kid and exuberant geocacher.

[+JesandTodd]

He looks like a cute kid! I wish geocaching was around when I was that age.