Nope, no way to determine that. This is a specific design decision by Groundspeak. If you don’t like it, well, email your complaint to Groundspeak!

Here’s what you can do….

Post a note on your cache page, asking for the people who are watching to respond. You can then delete the log from the page, but the e-mail notification will have already gone out.

If the person wants to be identified, they will e-mail you back. If they don’t want to be identified, then you won’t hear anything back.

Welllll it’s not me! 😆 I watch some listings where I have dropped off my signature items or new pathtags to see if anybody mentions it. (So if you pick one of mine up, make my day and mention it – ha!) Unfortunately, people usually don’t put it in their logs if they pick stuff up or not anymore.

@Trekkin’ and Birdin’ wrote:

Nope, no problem. Makes sense with respect to GS’s privacy policies; I was just trying to figure out why anyone else might watch some of them.

Some of the reasons I watch a cache are similar to what Coastie stated. I like to see who else finds a “special” cache and like to read what others have to say or I might watch a cache that I have DNF’ed to see if it gets found afterwards or if the cache is gone.

I wonder if we should put the word out to everyone to put all of your caches on their watch list! 😆
Of course that might just drive you nuts! 😆 😆

I watch some caches I DNF until there is a finder and then I stop watching. I also watch very hard puzzles that I’m interested in trying to solve. Sometimes I watch caches as a means of reminding myself to get out that way and find a particular cache or cache in a particular area.Oh, one more reson I watch a cache: if it is close to one of my own caches I like to see when people are nearby to my caches and whether they do mine as well or skip it.