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[+Will+Bill]

Does anyone think that it might be bad that some have a higher post count than cache finds? Our posts are around 80, and our finds are around 200. Just wondering. This is not meant to cause offence to any geocachers. I am just curious.

[+Red Clover]

After a month of lurking I've started posting fairly regularly in the last month or so. I cache w/ my bf ,who lives over an hour away, and/or my 7 yr old son. The forums help keep my umm addiction at bay by at least being able to discuss caching w/ someone who wont tune me out about the latest twisted ankle, snake sighting, funny log etc I've seen/done. My posts are currently a bit under double my finds.

 

I know of one very frequent posted that has medical probs that prohibits alot of caching so this is another outlet for them as well. There are others that dont post "finds" online but post them as notes instead to avoid the "numbers" issue. So who knows the person w/ the least number of finds could inreality have hundreds. I have a good friend w/ over 300 log book entries but only 60 finds on his profile because he logs them as notes for just that reason.

[2oldfarts (the rockhounders)]

We live in a cache-challenged area! So we have to make do with the forums.

 

We are the FTP to this thread though.

 

John and Shirley

 

 

Edit: we were to slow to earn the FTP!

Edited April 17, 2004 by 2oldfarts (the rockhounders)

[+Jamie Z]

I don't think it's bad at all.

 

Geocaching and the geocaching forums are two completely unrelated activities.

 

Jamie

[WH]

Posting in the forums, gives me a GC.com fix when I cant be out caching for whatever reason.

 

I guess you could call me a gc.com junkie

[+Corp Of Discovery]

Doesn't matter a bit. It is easier to post a message than find a cache.

Edited April 17, 2004 by Corp Of Discovery

[+wimseyguy]

Don't worry W+B some will take offense, but that's why they play in here.

You see to some members of geocaching the forums are just the sandbox, so don't spit in it, and watch what you step in before coming in here to play.

The world is the geocaching oyster (with the found cache being the pearl of course).

Besides I believe the currently accepted ratio of finds:posts is around .641.

Edited April 17, 2004 by wimseyguy

[+Cache Viking]

Not many caches near my place and thus I need to drive near an hour to get to some. Forums are a good way to share in the experience. Besides I thought it was all about the fun not the numbers.

[+Will+Bill]

You guys are right. I didn't consider that.

[Dinoprophet]

It is easier to post a message than find a cache.

Especially at work.

Edited April 17, 2004 by Dinoprophet

[WH]

It is easier to post a message than find a cache.

Especially at work.

God Bless the office with a door

[+JoGPS]

This should to be a fun thread to watch, ……………JOE

[+briansnat]

It's a horrible thing. Anybody who has more posts than finds really needs to get a life.

[+Team GPSaxophone]

It's a horrible thing. Anybody who has more posts than finds really needs to get a life.

 

How's this, I live in a low-cache-density area. I work in a cleanroom. For me to go on my lunch break and find a cache would require a 1/4 mile walk through the factory, de-gowning, a 1/4 mile walk to the parking garage, driving across town (about 10-15 miles), then going on a hike to find a cache. I would then have to hike back to the truck, drive back to work, walk 1/4 mile to the gownroom, gown up, walk a 1/4 mile back to my workstation. All this in an hour? You must be joking.

 

In case you are wondering, I work at the largest semiconductor manufacturing plant in the world. The cleanroom has 400,000 square feet of space. The south side of the factory alone is the size of 17 football fields! I walk a minimum of 2 miles a day just to go to work and take 2 breaks a day. I also walk around quite a bit between the tools that I operate. I estimate that I walk a total of 5 miles a day at work. I also work 12 hours a day, so there isn't much time for geocaching after get home. However, I have computers all around me at work. Logging into the forums is much easier than trying to leave for a hour.

[+GPSKitty]

Oh my!! You must have a LOT of finds.

[+JMBella]

It's absolutely a bad thing. How could someone have more posts than finds? What losers!

[+Snoogans]

SHEESH! This is not even worth debating. Apples and oranges. Moot.

 

I could care less that I have wayyyy more posts than finds. (Better than 10 to one) If anyone here DOES have an opinion about MY post to find count, they really have a problem that they should see a shrink about.

 

Sn gans

[+TEAM 360]

In case you are wondering, I work at the largest semiconductor manufacturing plant in the world. The cleanroom has 400,000 square feet of space. The south side of the factory alone is the size of 17 football fields!

Hide some of your own caches in there, and introduce geocaching to your fellow bunnysuits!

Definitely Level-5 caches, special equipment needed...

[+Team GPSaxophone]

In case you are wondering, I work at the largest semiconductor manufacturing plant in the world. The cleanroom has 400,000 square feet of space. The south side of the factory alone is the size of 17 football fields!

Hide some of your own caches in there, and introduce geocaching to your fellow bunnysuits!

Definitely Level-5 caches, special equipment needed...

I've been training an employee from the Colorado Springs plant for the last few weeks. I found out today that he's a geocacher! That is so cool! Someone understands what I do for fun...

[+Renegade Knight]

If I could find caches and pay for gas half as well as I post I'd not be here at all.

[LostCachePatrol]

Do you mean what you DON'T do for fun?

How can you find caches working 12 hrs a day? And how can you have energy to hike after all that exertion at work?

 

My advice is- quit your job and be a professional "homeless" cacher. Then perhaps it might be POSSIBLE to find as many caches as your forum posts.

 

Sheesh! What a ridiculous premises for a thread!

 

I don't even meet this criterion and I am (and probably always will be) a tadpole.

Edited April 17, 2004 by LostCachePatrol

[+Team GPSaxophone]

Do you mean what you DON'T do for fun?

How can you find caches working 12 hrs a day?

Oh, I work 4 days one week and 3 the next

[+Confucius' Cat]

your employer wouldn't be "the big bat" would it?

[+El Diablo]

Those who can...do. Those who can't...teach.

 

El Diablo

[+Torry]

Hey, I'm just looking for a decent place to hang out where they don't fetch the mall cops and make me pull my pants up.

[+Lone Duck]

Does anyone think that it might be bad that some have a higher post count than cache finds? Our posts are around 80, and our finds are around 200. Just wondering. This is not meant to cause offence to any geocachers. I am just curious.

So what?

[+OurWoods]

Not really.. Some people can't cache all the time. There may be weather reasons, time reasons, personal limitations, no more caches around, no money for gas, etc, etc... Typing words is relatively easy. You can make a few posts between tasks at home or work. You can make tons of posts during the winter months while the snow is deep outside, you can make tons of posts while your two broken legs heal, etc, etc..

 

Do some people post too much? I will refrain from answering that!

[Kerry.]

So if someone has zero (0) finds and posts what might be the relevance of that, what might that mean and really is it actually important at all

 

Cheers, Kerry.

[+Lazyboy & Mitey Mite]

It's a horrible thing. Anybody who has more posts than finds really needs to get a life.

I think we need a new rule!!!!

[+New England n00b]

Posting during the winter months kept me sane. Would you rather I be insane? You are a mean, mean person.

[+Team GPSaxophone]

your employer wouldn't be "the big bat" would it?

????

[+TotemLake]

I had to think about this one for a while as it seems you deserve an answer of which you have received some good ones in relationship to this particular hobby sport.

 

I've been billboarding (forum chatting) far longer than I've been geocaching. So why I should I limit myself to someone else's idealism?

 

Generally speaking, forum chatting is a form of socializing on subjects commonly shared with others you otherwise would never meet.

[+cache_us_if_you_can]

Posts, More than finds

Hey, I resemble that remark

Posting during the winter months kept me sane. Would you rather I be insane?

I didn't know that was an option Hey, wait, I resemble that remark too

[+Divine]

Another thread that wouldn't even exist without the visible post count...

 

But hey, white noise is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you are going to get. (Mostly Fudge, it appears though.)

[uperdooper]

Posting during the winter months kept me sane. Would you rather I be insane? You are a mean, mean person.

uh...yeah... we can see by your avatar how sane you are. NO RUNNING WITH NEEDLES!!! i post, therefore i am.

[+wimseyguy]

QUOTE (Team GPSaxophone @ Apr 16 2004, 06:38 PM [color=blue)

In case you are wondering, I work at the largest semiconductor manufacturing plant in the world. The cleanroom has 400,000 square feet of space. The south side of the factory alone is the size of 17 football fields! I walk a minimum of 2 miles a day just to go to work and take 2 breaks a day. I also walk around quite a bit between the tools that I operate. I estimate that I walk a total of 5 miles a day at work. I also work 12 hours a day, so there isn't much time for geocaching after  get home. However, I have computers all around me at work. Logging into the forums is much easier than trying to leave for a hour.[/color] Well no wonder you are blue!

[+fizzymagic]

Logging into the forums is much easier than trying to leave for a hour.

Yeah, but that still doesn't explain why you feel it necessary to make sure everyone gets to read your opinion in almost every thread, whether you know anything about the subject ot not.

[uperdooper]

because he wants to and has that right. just like everyone else here.