HQ archiving ECs with inactive COs

[+MNTA]

I happened to come across a nearby EC that is temporarily disabled as I was thinking of going to cache in the area and found this log.

 

 

 

I'm of the opinion this is a good thing and hopefully with time this expands to other cache types. I'll nominate mystery caches without a coordinate checker and inactive COs.

 

Looks like possibly ~700 EC are currently disabled worldwide. Though some are definitely just down for maintenance reasons. Oldest cache being from 2004. 

[+Max and 99]

8 minutes ago, MNTA said:

I happened to come across a nearby EC that is temporarily disabled as I was thinking of going to cache in the area and found this log.

 

 

 

I'm of the opinion this is a good thing and hopefully with time this expands to other cache types. I'll nominate mystery caches without a coordinate checker and inactive COs.

 

Looks like possibly ~700 EC are currently disabled worldwide. Though some are definitely just down for maintenance reasons. Oldest cache being from 2004. 

https://forums.geocaching.com/GC/index.php?/topic/401449-hq-archiving-ecs-of-inactive-cos/

[+barefootjeff]

8 minutes ago, MNTA said:

I'm of the opinion this is a good thing and hopefully with time this expands to other cache types. I'll nominate mystery caches without a coordinate checker and inactive COs.

 

I agree with this for ECs and virtuals where you really need an active CO vetting the logs, but a lot of the checkerless mysteries I've seen have had puzzles that spell out the coordinates in words, or simple ones such as putting the solution in html source comments or using white-on-white text in the description, so you either unambiguously have the right coordinates or none at all and a checker is superfluous. If a puzzle is unsolvable without contacting the CO, it probably needs archiving regardless.

[Neos2]

We have been discussing this in the Earthcaches forum. Feel free to join us there if you want to discuss the archiving of EarthCaches. 

Edited July 2, 2024 by Neos2

[+capsai]

18 hours ago, MNTA said:

I'm of the opinion this is a good thing and hopefully with time this expands to other cache types. I'll nominate mystery caches without a coordinate checker and inactive COs.

 

I hope not in case of very old physical caches.

[+MNTA]

40 minutes ago, capsai said:

 

I hope not in case of very old physical caches.

Only a matter of time

 

So many older caches are unmaintained and CO long gone either left the game or passed away. Slowly they will be archived. Important caches will be saved by GS I hope. COs if they own a cache they wish to keep going need to plan to adopt it out,