Challenge cheater dilemma

[RheSParticipant]

A long time ago, in a land not too far away, but south of the Cheese Curtain, I created a moderately difficult Challenge Cache. Recently, somebody pointed out to me that a checker had been created for it (I had created the cache long before challenge checkers were everywhere), and I thought that I should update the page.

I did indeed update the cache page, and the cacher who suggested the checker to me commented “I see that the last couple finders didn’t qualify.” Well, they didn’t qualify in 2018… do you think I should remove their logs, or has the statute of limitations expired?

(((Wake up, sleepy forum.)))

—RheS

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[amita17Participant]

I’m not the expert to answer this question, but I will give my opinion.  To me, if a finder qualified for the cache at the time he or she logged it, it is a valid smiley.  If not, then no.  If the finder qualified previously, but the challenge needed to be updated for one reason or another, I would say the find is still good, as the qualifications were met at the time of the find.

I don’t do many challenge caches, but I liken this to, I make a find, but the cache goes missing some time later, and the owner has to make a replacement (maybe a tree got chopped down or a sign removed), and the owner has to relocate it a bit or place a new sized container.  If it is the same cache page, just updated, my find remains valid.  I am welcome to find the new replacement, but I don’t get another find out of it.  Same with the challenge–the finders who had previously met the challenge requirements but now do not, would be welcome to update the cache page with a write note entry stating such, but would not be given another find, nor would the previous smiley be removed as stated above.  I hope my thoughts aren’t too confusing.

[bartrodParticipant]

I’m of the opinion that if they met the requirements at the time they logged the cache then all is good.

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[RheSParticipant]

It looks like they never met the requirement. It didn’t require that the caches be active, or anything like that. So they just cheated… or didn’t notice the requirement at all, since they did nothing to pretend they had met it, either. Are there people who don’t notice that it’s a challenge cache? With the word challenge in the name twice???

I’m still considering….

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[amita17Participant]

Ok, how about this?  Send a message that says something to the effect of Your log doesn’t indicate how you met the requirements for this challenge cache.  You have a week to submit a new log showing how the cache requirements have been fulfilled.  Failure to do that will result in your find being deleted.

[JimandLindaParticipant]

FTP for the 8th of July!

[NoonanParticipant]

I like Amita’s suggestion.

The best sig is no sig.

[sevencardsParticipant]

And with that, the log I just wrote.  When a CO gives you the opportunity to take a find on a cache because it went missing and they replaced it.  I feel like I cheated the system but this time I took the find which gave me a triple fizzy.

 

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