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@Team Deejay wrote:
Ummm…Holy crap! Did I actually miss this entire KB for the past 4 years or is this relatively new? I see where it’s linked in the bottom and in the “Hiding a Cache” link now. Maybe I just missed it.
221 DNFs here.
47 dnfs and 2 today that 1 was a 1/2 and the other was a 1.1/2-2
ya bummer right?
@abron132 wrote:
So if you went in search of a cache and did not find it that time, but went back another time (say the next day) wouldn’t you log that cache as a DNF first and then add another log once found?
If we hadn’t gotten around to logging the DNF before we made the find, I would probably write just the one log saying that we didn’t find it the day before (state reasons, details, etc.), then go on to describe making the find. The experience gets recorded, and I didn’t have to write an extra log.
If I had written up all my logs from the first day, the DNF would have been among them, and it would have stayed. I view a DNF as (1) part of our caching experience that needs to be mentioned, and (2) a way to let a CO know that there may be something wrong with the cache. How I word a DNF will let the CO know how serious an effort we made on the find and if the cache really needs checking by the CO.