More information on the banning of Cav Scout can be found here:

http://www.novago.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1821

and here:

http://www.geocachingmaine.org/forum/showthread.php?t=4741

@lostby7 wrote:

Thanks for the link Zuma. That adds some more perspective to the situation. It does not however change my feelings about Groundspeak’s heavy-handedness in closing the forum discussions down.

There is also some gibberish on the GS forums: http://forums.groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=264924&st=0

I provided links to the Maine and WV forums because Cav Scout is able to give is view of the matter there, without Groundspeak’s arbitrary heavy handedness in the matter.

There are 2 sides to every story, and I dont suppose we will ever know the whole story, but the bits we can glean are interesting.

z

I got bored about halfway through the discussion but the nut of his banning seems to be around enforcing EC requirements, and/or his attitude toward that and deletions.

I will say that owning EC’s was a very frustrating experience. People just don’t read or don’t care. I got tired of policing logging requirements, which is what I had promised to do as a prerequisite of publishing them.

Then to top it off, when I got complaints about one of my ECs in this forum, well that pretty much was the last straw. Never again!

Looks like this banned member has a similar outlook on life; namely, that there are more important things to do than to worry about electronic logs about nonexistent caches!

If your curious here is his profile, thats alot of EC’s and regular caches archived. http://www.geocaching.com/profile/?guid=9fc2492c-6589-4927-909e-ecbb3a2a3fde&wid=3c440bfd-43fc-41f4-a20e-7b5f9bf1c18a&ds=2

I did three of his EC and forgot to log the picture and he deleted my log, so I went and relog it and before I could upload the picture, he deleted it again. It was not that much time, like two minutes. from me submit the log and then I went to the upload picture, He had it deleted again. how i solved it, i waited a few hour and relog it and upload the picture when he was not on. i did email him and told him to give me 10 minutes to upload the picture. That was not quick for him. I never went GS for this issue. solved it myself. I loved the EC that he did and too bad they are archived

As an EarthCache owner myself, I understand the need to make sure people actually visited your location, but sometimes there are some folks who get pretty antsy. We did a big trip out of state a couple years ago, which included a large number of EarthCaches, most of which required a photo. I emailed all my answers before logging, logged all my caches (probably over 100 for the trip), and planned to do my photo stuff and get those loaded. I usually like to work on my photos in photoshop to crop and such before loading them, which takes a little more time. I’d done a couple logs and checked email, to discover one from an EC owner who said “it’s been an hour since you logged your find, yet no photo yet.” I emailed him and said I’d get the photos by evening’s end. I received two more emails that threatened to hit the delete.

I ignored the first, but after the next, simply invited the owner to do what he felt was necessary. I did get my photos uploaded eventually, but felt it was almost to the point of harrassment. He had it down to the number of hours and minutes (less than three since my first email response).

As I say….people are funny. Not the same CO as the one who was banned.

It is too bad so many got mass archived here. That’s a lot of work. I haven’t looked to see just which ones, but I know he had a ton in Kentucky and we’d hoped to make a trip down there sometime (which of course we still can, duh).