+sharoncomstock Posted September 1 Share Posted September 1 I recently made my first hide after being tutored by another geocacher. After my hide was published, this nice person and some of their friends remotely sign as first to find but the log has not been signed. It has definitely burst my bubble and I haven’t completed another hide. I would really appreciate help on how you would deal with this. Thank you Quote Link to comment
geoawareUSA9 Posted September 1 Share Posted September 1 It's your cache. If people have not signed the log, it is your right to police the logs and delete any you know to be false. 2 2 Quote Link to comment
+Smitherington Posted September 1 Share Posted September 1 Around here there are a few serious cachers that compete to be FTF so your situation does not confront me. But if that happened to me I would have not hesitate to delete the log. 1 1 Quote Link to comment
+Max and 99 Posted September 1 Share Posted September 1 (edited) 4 hours ago, sharoncomstock said: I recently made my first hide after being tutored by another geocacher. After my hide was published, this nice person and some of their friends remotely sign as first to find but the log has not been signed. It has definitely burst my bubble and I haven’t completed another hide. I would really appreciate help on how you would deal with this. Thank you Did you ask them about it? I would not hesitate to delete that log. It looks like maybe you already deleted the logs as your latest hide has no finds yet? A little confused as you have three hides and you said you recently hid your first one. Any chance there's two containers there? I would have contacted them to ask. Edited September 1 by Max and 99 1 Quote Link to comment
+cerberus1 Posted September 1 Share Posted September 1 (edited) Looks (to me) that it's the same group at your first two hides. We heard of people not signing nanos, but never came across it ourselves. As GeoawareUSA9 said, if it bugs you and you checked that there are no sigs, delete it. Realize for me a nano "sig" would be C1... We had a member false log FTF on caches once. Finally got nailed when I was met by the CO just as I solved the field puzzle for the virgin log. Turns out he was giving himself extra time, thinking FTF hounds wouldn't rush out if they knew it was "signed"... He quit the hobby, embarrassed (that he got caught). Edited September 1 by cerberus1 edification Quote Link to comment
+sharoncomstock Posted September 1 Author Share Posted September 1 1 hour ago, Max and 99 said: Did you ask them about it? I would not hesitate to delete that log. It looks like maybe you already deleted the logs as your latest hide has no finds yet? A little confused as you have three hides and you said you recently hid your first one. Any chance there's two containers there? I would have contacted them to ask. I did 3 hides…it took over a week to get 2 of them oked. The third took 2 emails to headquarters. No one has found the third one. I am so ambivalent because the person who did the signing is the one who taught me how to do a hide. I Wasn’t sure how to do waypoints. Quote Link to comment
+Max and 99 Posted September 1 Share Posted September 1 32 minutes ago, sharoncomstock said: I did 3 hides…it took over a week to get 2 of them oked. The third took 2 emails to headquarters. No one has found the third one. I am so ambivalent because the person who did the signing is the one who taught me how to do a hide. I Wasn’t sure how to do waypoints. I really think you should ask him/them. That's very odd, in my opinion. Their names weren't on either of the logs for the two caches? Just out of curiosity, what made you go check the physical log? Quote Link to comment
+Max and 99 Posted September 1 Share Posted September 1 1 hour ago, cerberus1 said: Turns out he was giving himself extra time, thinking FTF hounds wouldn't rush out if they knew it was "signed"... Well that's a first! Quote Link to comment
+Max and 99 Posted September 1 Share Posted September 1 (edited) Like C1 mentioned, were both entire logs blank? Did you turn the log over to check? Maybe they signed in a different place than you expected? That's quite surprising. I think I would take a picture of the log and tell him you don't see their name on it. There are so many possible explanations based on my experience! So many! I once was going to be third to find for a difficult cache, and found the log completely blank. Turns out first and second to find had signed on the swag instead of the official log. I suspect your finders signed the log. Let us know what comes of this! Edited September 1 by Max and 99 1 Quote Link to comment
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