+Ry Dawg Posted February 20, 2016 Share Posted February 20, 2016 I just adopted a cache. An inactive user signed in, archived his missing, and appears adopted out the active ones to different locals. One of them was me. I have his cache, the one I adopted, 4 years ago. Do I now have a "find" on my own cache? Should I go through and delete it if I do? What is considered "best form" for this? Thank you! Quote Link to comment
Nomex Posted February 20, 2016 Share Posted February 20, 2016 It's personal preference from my point of view. You found the cache prior to adoption, so that seems like a legitimate find to me. Kind of depends how you like your stats to look I suppose. Quote Link to comment
+hydnsek Posted February 20, 2016 Share Posted February 20, 2016 (edited) It's perfectly fine to have a Find log on a cache you later adopt. When you found it, it wasn't your cache and you legitimately searched for it. No need to delete your find after adopting it. I have several caches that I've adopted over the years after finding them long before - including GCD, the oldest cache in Washington State. I definitely have not deleted my Find logs on those. So yes, I have finds on a few caches that I now own. Edited February 20, 2016 by hydnsek Quote Link to comment
+hzoi Posted February 20, 2016 Share Posted February 20, 2016 I think I'm confused on who owned what and when. I know other folks who have logged finds on caches and then end up adopting the cache, meaning they now have a find on their own cache. If that's the situation, I think that's fine to keep your old "found it" log. Quote Link to comment
jholly Posted February 20, 2016 Share Posted February 20, 2016 I found a cache that I later adopted. Kept the find. Some time later I adopted out that cache. Still have the find. I see no reason not to keep the find on a cache your adopted. Quote Link to comment
+frinklabs Posted February 20, 2016 Share Posted February 20, 2016 I have adopted two caches but I use a no-find team account to manage them. I feel it would be disingenuous to have the favorite points for a cache I didn't create or place added to those of my own hides. Quote Link to comment
Pup Patrol Posted February 20, 2016 Share Posted February 20, 2016 I'm not too fussed over having a cache I own as being in my "found" list. I don't think many people would be concerned. It's part of the cache's history, no? One can look at the cache page, and see that the current owner found the cache previous to the adoption. B. Quote Link to comment
+luvvinbird Posted February 20, 2016 Share Posted February 20, 2016 BTW. Of the two adopted caches I own, I had previously found one. The one I hadn't claimed a found on shows on the map as the usual ownership "star" symbol but the previously found one has the regular "found" symbol. Quote Link to comment
+BlackRose67 Posted February 21, 2016 Share Posted February 21, 2016 So far I've adopted 9 caches that I had previously found. I kept the finds, as those finds occurred before I was the cache owner. Quote Link to comment
+narcissa Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 It's totally up to you, in fact, there is nothing stopping you from logging your own, non-adopted caches if you so choose. Your profile, your finds, your stats are entirely your own. Quote Link to comment
+Walts Hunting Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 I have a few that I have adopted and they show as found. Not a problem. And if you think about it the most likely person to adopt a cache is one who as already found it. Quote Link to comment
+NYPaddleCacher Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 I have a few that I have adopted and they show as found. Not a problem. And if you think about it the most likely person to adopt a cache is one who as already found it. Agreed. I can't imagine adopting a cache if I had not previously found it. If I haven't found the cache myself how would I know if it's a cache worth adopting. Quote Link to comment
+mertat Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 I have a few that I have adopted and they show as found. Not a problem. And if you think about it the most likely person to adopt a cache is one who as already found it. Agreed. I can't imagine adopting a cache if I had not previously found it. If I haven't found the cache myself how would I know if it's a cache worth adopting. Well, I've actually done that - adopt a cache I hadn't previously found. It was one of two that I adopted in an area I'd already placed a cache. One I'd found, the other I'd DNFed. So after I adopted it I went back out to search. I figured if I couldn't find it, I'd put another cache out in the area I thought it should be. Well, I hunted and hunted and couldn't find it so I started looking for a good spot to hide one near the coordinates. Found a great spot - and the cache! I updated the coordinates slightly and left the cache as it was. I never did log that one as found, though. Quote Link to comment
+DanOCan Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 Agreed. I can't imagine adopting a cache if I had not previously found it. If I haven't found the cache myself how would I know if it's a cache worth adopting. I based my decision off the description of the cache, the location of the hide, and the reputation of the original owner. Quote Link to comment
JASTA 11 Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 If you found it prior to adopting it - keep the smiley. If you didn't find it prior to adopting - don't claim a find. If you were to adopt out a cache that you were the original CO of - don't go and claim a find afterwards. That's lame too. $.02 Quote Link to comment
+narcissa Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 If you found it prior to adopting it - keep the smiley. If you didn't find it prior to adopting - don't claim a find. If you were to adopt out a cache that you were the original CO of - don't go and claim a find afterwards. That's lame too. $.02 Arbitrary rules are more lame. Quote Link to comment
+bflentje Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 I'm not too fussed over having a cache I own as being in my "found" list. I don't think many people would be concerned. It's part of the cache's history, no? One can look at the cache page, and see that the current owner found the cache previous to the adoption. B. Me either. I logged one of my own caches 189 times once. But that was a numbers adjustment after "temp caches" thankfully went by the wayside. Quote Link to comment
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