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@rcflyer2242 wrote:
Did you even read the cache page?
This is exactly the problem. Many people just want to get to the “dot” and find it. They have no clue, no care, no interest in why it’s there. This is exactly why even having a statement like the one referenced above on your page probably doesn’t help. It’s like preaching to the choir. Those that read the page are the same ones that “get it” and generally right more than “TFTC”.
This is why the only WSQ’s I have left are puzzles. Way less finders this way, but generally you have to pick up a little something along the way if you’re reading a marker, researching some history, etc.
When someone finds one of our caches as their very first cache we always send them a “Congrats” email. I will try to explain how we as cache hiders appreciate nice logs and wish them luck in the future.
@sloughfoot wrote:
When someone finds one of our caches as their very first cache we always send them a “Congrats” email.
Same here…
@lostby7 wrote:
@Braid Beards Gang wrote:
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My 2 cents. Mr. G. why would you give up the secret here? I was going to comment how I bought a Kayak for the cache, but I thought that went too far 😉Edited: because I am sleepy.
I wondered that myself…but my belief is that he does so to illustrate a point…that being that logs are what make listings special. And as long as it was brought up, I loved looking at your cache Mr.Greenthumb I google mapped it when it came out and got a smile.
LB7 stated exactly what my point was. Logs can sometimes make an ordinary cache extrodinary.
I just sent a congrats to a cacher on her first FTF at my hide that I placed last night GC31QY3. It’s a guardrail P&G that any cacher would be happy to have included in their stats. If all guardrails were like this cache people would have good reason to flock to them.
8) Wow…and here I thought I was in the minority about being ticked off about crappy logs. What I look forward to is meeting the cacher that placed the cache (and I generally do) and have them tell me that they enjoyed reading my log. Several people at the WGA picnic sought me out just to tell me that which made me feel good and I got to meet cachers whose caches I found.
Maybe it is time for a little logwriting 101 lesson and perhaps a cut and paste HTML code that we could put on our cache pages.
The Commander
ever think that writing little may not offend some one. or some one may just have anything to say. maybe they are not writers or a English majors or maybe writing lots may give away a hide . or maybe someone writes little cause they no English major.
@guidetoo wrote:
ever think that writing little may not offend some one. or some one may just have anything to say. maybe they are not writers or a English majors or maybe writing lots may give away a hide . or maybe someone writes little cause they no English major.
While this may be the case for a few cachers, a lot of them are just too inconsiderate to bother.
I normally don’t post TFTC logs. I always write at least a nice short log for every cache I find.
However, I posted my first ever “TFTC” log at one of ZH’s caches last week.
What’s there to post for a guardrail cache on a highway overpass that is part of several in a series?
No one needs to be an English major to write 2 sentences about their caching experience. I have never heard of anyone correcting someones grammer in a log.
@sloughfoot wrote:
No one needs to be an English major to write 2 sentences about their caching experience. I have never heard of anyone correcting someones grammer in a log.
grammar 😆
All opinions, comments, and useless drivel I post are mine alone and do not reflect the opinions of the WGA BOD.
@bigjim60 wrote:
@sloughfoot wrote:
No one needs to be an English major to write 2 sentences about their caching experience. I have never heard of anyone correcting someones grammer in a log.
grammar 😆
😆 🙄 😆
Not all who wander are lost. -J.R.R. Tolkien
I’d be happy with 2 things:
1) For traditionals – They actually read the description and made some connection to the spot, something they learned, etc. (i.e. Interesting fact, never knew about x, etc.)
2) For puzzles – They made some reference to the puzzle. (i.e. I struggled, it was easy, unique twist to a classic puzzle, etc.)Dare I say it – Ok here it goes.
A number of cachers never read the description and have no clue why the cache is there. They just want to get the smiley. And for those dang ?’s they just get the solve from somebody else and go find it.And I’ll take grammatically incorrect, misspelled, etc. any day compared to “TFTC”, some odd string of characters, or some precanned log that is attached to a smartphone.
In fact I’d prefer a blank log to the any of the above because it at least shows what the finder really wants to do which is NOTHING but find.
@codejunkie wrote:
Dare I say it – Ok here it goes.
A majority of cachers never read the description and have no clue why the cache is there. They just want to get the smiley.I don’t know if it’s a majority of cachers, CJ, but there are certainly quite a few. Then there are those who complain in their logs (if they write anything) about the cache when they couldn’t find it or had trouble with it in some way or didn’t know they had to do such-and-such, and the information they needed was right in front of them… DID YOU READ THE CACHE PAGE??? 🙄
Oh yeah..don’t forget about the cache pages themselves.
Some say “Bison Tube. BYOP.”
That’s it.
That certainly deserves a TFTC.
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