Changing hides to Premium only

[+Tillster]

Hi - I have 50 hides that I want to change to Premium Members only, is it possible to change them all in one go or do they have to be amended individually?

Thanks.

[+lee737]

My thought would be you're going to have to start clicking a lot..

 

[+Jayeffel]

I also think each one individually. 

 

But this raises a question for me. If someone not a premium member has already found and logged a find would that change anything on their stats or is a find still a find?

 

[+kunarion]

2 hours ago, Tillster said:

Hi - I have 50 hides that I want to change to Premium Members only, is it possible to change them all in one go or do they have to be amended individually?

Thanks.

 

Is it all of your active caches?  If so, there is helper software that might handle it, such as GSAK.

[+kunarion]

24 minutes ago, Jayeffel said:

If someone not a premium member has already found and logged a find would that change anything on their stats or is a find still a find?

 

The stats remain the same (except that it changes which caches are PMO).  And someone not a premium member can log their find in any case.

 

Edited June 29, 2023 by kunarion

[+Tillster]

6 hours ago, lee737 said:

My thought would be you're going to have to start clicking a lot..

 

Thanks. Thought so 

[+cerberus1]

8 hours ago, kunarion said:

The stats remain the same (except that it changes which caches are PMO).  And someone not a premium member can log their find in any case.

 

Yep, after issues with a CO of pmo hides years ago, I haven't done a pmo hider since... 

If anyone was anal enough to look, there's a few caches now listed as pmo that weren't when we started.

When we brought new folks with us, we'd show them how easy it was for a basic member to log PMO caches.

[+JL_HSTRE]

On 6/29/2023 at 4:16 PM, cerberus1 said:

When we brought new folks with us, we'd show them how easy it was for a basic member to log PMO caches.

 

Ever since Groundspeak changed how the app works several years ago geocachers who use the app have been incentivized to buy premium membership. So PMO isn't the deterrent it once was. 

[LySt]

On 6/29/2023 at 1:44 PM, Jayeffel said:

If someone not a premium member has already found and logged a find would that change anything on their stats or is a find still a find?

Existing finds are not affected, otherwise people changing their status from PM to BM would (temporarily or permanently) lose a lot of counts.

Non-PMs who have the "old" cache data on their devices don't recognise the change, and can still log finds.

Non-PMs (e.g. who joined PMs on a cache trip) can find the caches, and log finds.

Anyone who finds the container can log a find if she can identify the cache...