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08/17/2006 at 9:30 pm #1723630
There is a new cache that just popped up in Kenosha this morning called “take a Penny Leave a Penny”.
After work I went and scored the cache with my family. When I came home to log it, I clicked on the link in my watch list, and an error came up telling me that I could not view the page until the cache was published.
At last check before we went today, 2 others had already been there and logged it. Any ideas?
08/17/2006 at 9:31 pm #1764635Sorry, I swear I put this in the Help thread. Please move this if necessary.
08/17/2006 at 9:47 pm #1764636OK nevermind. I just got the e-mail from Admin Tie stating that the cache was retracted. I guess I’ll have to wait to log it until the owner moves the cache to a proper location.
Hey, if I go back and find it after it gets moved, does it count as an additional find? 😉
08/17/2006 at 9:47 pm #1764637Gotcha covered (for the move, don’t know about the other)
Bec
08/18/2006 at 12:50 am #1764638It was retracted because it had the wrong name. It should have been “Nemisis – Take a penny, leave a penny, find the cache, now try and log it.” 😆
08/18/2006 at 3:55 am #1764639I don’t know the reason for sure, but when the cache popped up last night and I glanced at the map, I thought, “I wonder if it’s in that little city-owned cemetary that’s surrounded by houses?” Sure enough, zooming in, it was smack in the middle. I decided not to try a late-night FtF attempt.
I’ve driven past it before and decided that there’s no way I’d ever consider hiding a cache in there. I debated contacting the reviewer about it, as the “park” doesn’t seem to actually show up as being a cemetary, but decided to give the hider the benefit of the doubt, even if it was their first hide and they only had one find to their credit.
Looks like someone beat me to it, as I read the logs of the first two finders which didn’t seem too positive.
08/18/2006 at 2:39 pm #1764640Unfortunately, I had to retract this cache. Retracting a cache is like never publishing it in the first place, which is why nobody can see it anymore.
I have some concerns about how it is hidden, and right now I am waiting for an e-mail back from the owner(s). If it is in a good spot, it will be re-listed and good to go. If it is in a bad spot and the owner(s) choose to move it, it will be re-listed in the new spot. If it is in a bad spot and the owner(s) choose not to move it, it will be archived.
I’m sorry for the confusion this has caused.
08/18/2006 at 3:45 pm #1764641I see “The Graffiti Wall” got retracted by the other Brian as well. And here I thought these were rookie mistakes by Cheese-Wis. Obviously, he’s contagious. Stay away. 😆
08/18/2006 at 4:45 pm #1764642LOL 😆
08/19/2006 at 3:04 am #1764643@Johnny Cache wrote:
And here I thought these were rookie mistakes by Cheese-Wis.
Apparently you are unfamiliar with out latest (but by far not our least experienced) approver. Just goes to show what happens when people assume. A big round of applause to our latest approver and the seamless integration into a growing workload of duties they have to endure. Oh yeah….you two Brians are doing OK too. 😉
~CB08/20/2006 at 2:24 pm #1764644When a cache is retracted, what happens to the finds of the people that already logged it? Do they remain or do they vanish?
08/20/2006 at 3:59 pm #1764645I don’t know for sure…..
Even if the cache is retracted, the cache page still exists. It is just not viewable to anybody except the admins and the owner. So, my guess is that since the cache page still exists, the “finds” would still exist.
Maybe one of the two people who managed to find this cache prior to it being retracted could let us know?
08/21/2006 at 12:49 pm #1764646@CB&MB wrote:
Apparently you are unfamiliar with out latest (but by far not our least experienced) approver. Just goes to show what happens when people assume.
~CBThe only assumption was yours Bob. My post was an inside joke with JT that I guess I should have PM’d. At a previous event, he was a week or so into approving and we talked about a published cache (Milw. Repeaters) that was quickly retracted. The laughing emoticon was laughing with him, not at him. Sorry for the confusion.
Had I realized you posted, I could have clarified it at 6:00 the next morning when we bushwacked the kettles for no apparent reason. Oh wait. That would have been more like 6:20-6:25. 😀
08/22/2006 at 9:53 pm #1764647I believe that if you already had posted the find (obviously there was a cache page) it shows up as a find, since it was an actual cache, regardless as to how long it was in existence. Of course that’s when it was available. Now that it’s unavailable, I don’t know if you can anymore, but once a find is listed, as long as the cache owner doesn’t delete it, it stands.
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