Team MJDJ Posted March 18, 2004 Share Posted March 18, 2004 Why is it that so many Cachers have SO MANY identities? What is the point of this? How is this accomplished? Quote Link to comment
WH Posted March 18, 2004 Share Posted March 18, 2004 Some people create what are known as "sock puppet" accounts. A sock puppet is merely another GC.com account with a different user name. People often use these when they dont want their true identity known. Quote Link to comment
+4leafclover Posted March 18, 2004 Share Posted March 18, 2004 (edited) My family has the identity ELKKHunters. ELKK is each of our first initials. Individually, we are: gunslinger711 4leafclover peanut225 and turtle (although it will be YEARS before you see a log specifically from her, as she is pnly 3 years old.) I did it that way so we can log "family" finds, and I have an accurate count of "my" finds, since I am the most active member of our family. Edited March 18, 2004 by 4leafclover Quote Link to comment
+Melrose Plant Posted March 18, 2004 Share Posted March 18, 2004 Some people create what are known as "sock puppet" accounts. A sock puppet is merely another GC.com account with a different user name. People often use these when they dont want their true identity known. It would also seem that while Sock Puppet accounts are officially proscribed by the authorities, See paragraph No. 9 here, they appear to be tolerated to a certain degree, as long as the puppeteers keep it civil and clean. The puppeteers' usually good sense of humor probably doesn't hurt their chances of being allowed to remain, either. Quote Link to comment
+Renegade Knight Posted March 18, 2004 Share Posted March 18, 2004 Warts and all I have one. Quote Link to comment
Team MJDJ Posted March 19, 2004 Author Share Posted March 19, 2004 I have noticed that some of these individuals have a name as Mr.X (for instance). Then, I may notice "little bo peep" has placed a new cache. When I check out the PROFILE of little bo peep, it shows up as Mr.X....how'd he do that? I am able to set up another account, but it didn't work out the way I wanted it to! Quote Link to comment
+Renegade Knight Posted March 19, 2004 Share Posted March 19, 2004 I have noticed that some of these individuals have a name as Mr.X (for instance). Then, I may notice "little bo peep" has placed a new cache.When I check out the PROFILE of little bo peep, it shows up as Mr.X....how'd he do that? I am able to set up another account, but it didn't work out the way I wanted it to! In the cache description when you post a cache there is a field for "Placed by" what you put there is what appears in the placed by section. When you click on the link though it takes you to the profile of who listed the cache. Quote Link to comment
+robert Posted March 19, 2004 Share Posted March 19, 2004 You may also notice that some of the admins/moderators here have no logged finds or hides as their "sock puppet" accounts are what they use to admin/moderate, keeping personal and "work" separate. Quote Link to comment
+Imajika Posted March 19, 2004 Share Posted March 19, 2004 All of my team's cache hides are done under the name of 'Team Yatta'. However, if you click on 'Team Yatta' it goes to my info page. We don't have an account under the team yatta name because we all like to log our own cache finds individually (we don't always hunt together). And although we usually hide our caches together, they prefer for me to post the cache info and get approval. It's not cheating, just the way we do things...and I guess a lot of other people do to? Quote Link to comment
+SBPhishy Posted March 19, 2004 Share Posted March 19, 2004 I have one account. That's all I need. Quote Link to comment
Team MJDJ Posted March 19, 2004 Author Share Posted March 19, 2004 Now I understand! Thanks to all! Quote Link to comment
+briansnat Posted March 19, 2004 Share Posted March 19, 2004 (edited) Why is it that so many Cachers have SO MANY identities?What is the point of this? How is this accomplished? I'm not sure what you mean by this. I've been here for some time and haven't noticed anything of the sort. Speaking for myself, I have one identity pretty much everywhere (just Google my name in Groups). I'm not aware of other geocachers with multiple identitys, other than some admins who choose to do their geocaching.com volunteer work under one account and log their finds under another. Edited March 19, 2004 by briansnat Quote Link to comment
Team MJDJ Posted March 19, 2004 Author Share Posted March 19, 2004 Why is it that so many Cachers have SO MANY identities?What is the point of this? How is this accomplished? I'm not sure what you mean by this. I've been here for some time and haven't noticed anything of the sort. Speaking for myself, I have one identity pretty much everywhere (just Google my name in Groups). I'm not aware of other geocachers with multiple identitys, other than some admins who choose to do their geocaching.com volunteer work under one account and log their finds under another. I refer SPECIFICALLY to caches...there are many placed by individuals or groups that I've never heard of. When checking out their PROFILES, their identity becomes obvious. I don't know of any in HERE that have multiple identities. Quote Link to comment
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