Working with Groundspeak and Reviewers for "active" events

[cezanne]

What I have in mind is not pressing something into the frame of event caches, but to be left with events that appeal to a certain target audience.

 

Geocaching events already have a target audience: geocachers.

 

That's like denying that there target audiences for types of physical caches by arguing that they are all for geocachers.

 

Does every geocaching event appeal to you? Do you enjoy them all equally?

[+NeverSummer]

(NeverSummer still has no reply and I understand the guidelines in the way that one need to provide 9:30 and not 14:00 as the end of the event)

Believe me, as soon as I hear back from Groundspeak, I'll post to the other thread.

[+narcissa]

What I have in mind is not pressing something into the frame of event caches, but to be left with events that appeal to a certain target audience.

 

Geocaching events already have a target audience: geocachers.

 

That's like denying that there target audiences for types of physical caches by arguing that they are all for geocachers.

 

Does every geocaching event appeal to you? Do you enjoy them all equally?

 

Again, you are missing the bigger point. I am not arguing in favour of my personal event preferences. I am suggesting that not everything is a geocaching event.

 

Whether or not I like something is not the criteria. I like long hikes. I don't think that an extended hike with a select group of people is necessarily a geocaching event.

Edited March 11, 2015 by narcissa

[cezanne]

 

Again, you are missing the bigger point. I am not arguing in favour of my personal event preferences. I am suggesting that not everything is a geocaching event.

 

Of course it isn't. But still this does not change the fact that different geocaching events appeal to different cachers. There is about an event than that it is

for geocachers.

 

Whether or not I like something is not the criteria. I like long hikes. I don't think that an extended hike with a select group of people is necessarily a geocaching event.

 

I did not say that it is necessarily a geocaching event. I asked why you objected against my usage of target audience and insisted that the target audience are geocachers ignoring that

geocachers have different preferences. It does not make sense to base the rules on one's individual preferences, but I think that it would be reasonable to allow more flexibility so as to allow events that appeal to different subgroups of cachers in the sense that they really enjoy them (not in the sense that others could not come if they want).

[+narcissa]

it would be reasonable to allow more flexibility so as to allow events that appeal to different subgroups of cachers

 

Yes, it is reasonable, and that flexibility exists. Apparently, that flexibility has limits that you are not capable of accepting.

[+GeoLog81]

I did not say that it is necessarily a geocaching event. I asked why you objected against my usage of target audience and insisted that the target audience are geocachers ignoring that

geocachers have different preferences. It does not make sense to base the rules on one's individual preferences, but I think that it would be reasonable to allow more flexibility so as to allow events that appeal to different subgroups of cachers in the sense that they really enjoy them (not in the sense that others could not come if they want).

 

Why can't you simply use Opencaching or Facebook for such events? Because it won't give you GC-smiley you've written you don't care about?

 

Groundspeak found people attending events only to fill matrix or calendar or any other stat a problem, because it was a problem. It's still a problem, but the scale of the problem has diminished.

[Keystone]

I am closing this thread at the OP's request. Two other threads on the subject of event cache guidelines remain open.