Geocaching Favorites!

[Pawn-of-Chaos]

@Cachelovskys wrote:

@Team Deejay wrote:

It is interesting to see how this is shaping up so far. What I see being favorited is:
What I don’t see much of:

b. Extremely difficult puzzles

Trying to change that. 😀

Figures. Just when I was trying to think of an especially devious puzzle. 🙁

[Pawn-of-Chaos]

@3 Hawks wrote:

@TheBalks wrote:

@3 Hawks wrote:

I don’t see how this popularity contest is going to be of any real value.

BTW…..my “favorites” may be purchased for the low cost of one ice cold beer for one vote. A dozen freshly baked cookies could even get you two votes.

I think its awesome, because if I am going to a city I have never been to and have a limited time to cache, I can hit ones other people think are good caches. Pretty much the same thing as going on the local cachers forums and asking for suggestions, except you get a bigger sample size.

I will go out on a limb here……I predict that we will quickly see this new system turn into a popularity contest that has nothing to do with cache quality. Those cachers who have a “posse” of followers will garner large totals for even the most average of caches simply because it is expected. Others will vote for a cache simply to gain acceptance in a local caching community.

(1) Where can I get a posse?
(2) I used only about a quarter of my points. I accept bribes too.

Just kidding 😳

[3 Hawks]

@gotta run wrote:

@3 Hawks wrote:

Ding, ding, ding!!! It has already begun.

Oh well, I’ve said my part. I can go back to avoiding the Forums for another 5 or 6 months.

Boy, I don’t see anything argumentative in this thread, unless you’re referring to something going on elsewhere.

You are correct with respect to the fact that there is nothing argumentative in THIS thread. I simply do not appreciate the ugly side that tends to appear in the Forums from time to time. The majority of the threads are harmless, but I have limited time to spend on the Forums. I’ve not been on the gc.com Forums in months and I had not visited he WGA in about 4 months. I had not realized my membership in the WGA expired a few months ago. My “avoidance” of the Forums is due to more than one factor. There is no other implied meaning to be inferred.

[The Goldie Diggers]

Well since I usually go against the grain and have my own way of thinking
of things which is opposite what mostly everyone else thinks, I won’t disappoint on this topic either. I think the 10 to 1 ratio is about right.

I try to find something positive about EVERY cache I find and I usually do!
My favorites will easlily be 1 out of every 10. I guess I don’t understand why people would continue to geo-cache if you are only enjoying or liking
1 out 50 caches. There is way to much critisizing and complaining about caches, wether it be how they are hidden, how easy, how boring ect…a cache hide is what YOU make it as the finder.

I will gladly use all of my 393 favorites up, I think its a great tool for me as a hider to know what people like and don’t like…or rather what they remember and don’t remember.
My “IceBerg” cache has 11 favorite votes and i would never have guessed that would be the favorite choice amongst all my hides.

As far as favortism and posse votes…yes I’m sure that will occur but if you find a cache hidden by a friend, doesn’t that make it more special and memorable? It does for me….and that makes it a favorite.

[Mister Greenthumb]

@The Goldie Diggers wrote:

Well since I usually go against the grain and have my own way of thinking
of things which is opposite what mostly everyone else thinks, I won’t disappoint on this topic either. I think the 10 to 1 ratio is about right.

I try to find something positive about EVERY cache I find and I usually do!
My favorites will easlily be 1 out of every 10. I guess I don’t understand why people would continue to geo-cache if you are only enjoying or liking
1 out 50 caches. There is way to much critisizing and complaining about caches, wether it be how they are hidden, how easy, how boring ect…a cache hide is what YOU make it as the finder.

I will gladly use all of my 393 favorites up, I think its a great tool for me as a hider to know what people like and don’t like…or rather what they remember and don’t remember.
My “IceBerg” cache has 11 favorite votes and i would never have guessed that would be the favorite choice amongst all my hides.

As far as favortism and posse votes…yes I’m sure that will occur but if you find a cache hidden by a friend, doesn’t that make it more special and memorable? It does for me….and that makes it a favorite.

First of all Martin, what the heck are you doing in the forums? This is your first post ever. I agree with many of your points and we’ll probably both end up using many of our favorite points on each others hides, but that is something that has always been fun for us and has helped our friendship grow. All of that said now it will probably turn out that it wasn’t you that posted, but Josh.

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[The Goldie Diggers]

Mr G…I know, what the heck am I doing on here? I hardly ever go on here but I wanted to say something about the new feature and to be honest I stumbled upon the forum by accident. I was really looking to see if there was a way to view the ranking of caches with the most favorite votes in the state….to see how mine ranked. Yep I’m a brutely honest person and i like it when people enjoy my hides…what can I say?
11 votes for “Iceberg!” thats awesome!….I guess I have a posse!

[seldom|seen]

@3 Hawks wrote:

@TheBalks wrote:

@3 Hawks wrote:

Case in point…how many cachers know that it is against the “rules” to bury a cache in the ground? How many actually know the definition of a buried cache? Many cachers think you can dig a hole in the ground, place a 5 gallon bucked in the hole, and backfill around the hole with only the top exposed. They think this is not a buried cache because the top of the cache is not covered by dirt. They are wrong. Simply review the cache placement guidelines or talk to one of he friendly reviewers.

Depends on how you interpret the “Cache Listing Requirements / Guidelines”, doesn’t it? If I use my fingers to dig us some loose debris or even some friable topsoil, a la Real Gone | Sins of my Father, and “bury” it in that debris without covering it in “soil”, then I think I’m within the stated guidelines as I haven’t used a “pointy” object, just my blunt phalanges. The same holds true for others of mine that can be found under a rock to keep them from being muggled. If I dig by hand, and do not cover with soil, then as far as I’m concerned, I haven’t violated the placement guidelines. But then that’s my interpretation, not yours.

As far as the Favorites go, sure it’s open to abuse, but I thinks it’s far better than a “rating” system as it is more objective. If you add a cache as a favorite, I suspect that something about finding it must have left an impression. I just went though almost 900 finds and couldn’t remember 90% of them with any clarity. The ones I could remember, whether an exceptional cache or not, left an impression on me and a number of them went on my favorite list.

This is a marked improvement on the COTM month system the relies on word of mouth or wi-geo.com traffic since it is GC.com wide and everyone, WGA members and non, will be seeing, and hopefully many using, the favorites tag as a means to screen worthwhile caches for their outings. I know I will.

[sandlanders]

Today was our first day caching since the “favorite” thing was added. Logged our first Found It, and the little gauge was telling me how many more finds we needed to get another “favorite” point. Exciting! Every Found It I logged, more encouragement. Can’t wait to see when I get the next point. Bells, whistles, and fireworks? 😉

[seldom|seen]

@Team Deejay wrote:

It is interesting to see how this is shaping up so far. What I see being favorited is:

a. Caches involving journeys to/through interesting terrain (multis, hikes, water caches, tree climbing, etc.)
b. Interesting containers / hides
c. Interesting puzzles
d. Historical/scientific/cultural sites
e. Collection type mystery caches (i.e. Battleship)

What I don’t see much of:

a. Power trail type caches
b. Extremely difficult puzzles
c. Extremely difficult hides (there are a few)
d. Urban micros
e. Cemetery hides (a few)
e. Caches hidden “en masse” (you all know what I mean; even when these are good, they are tough to remember)
f. People just favoriting their friend’s caches (I did see one example of this. There is a knucklehead in every crowd.)

Even as I stray down toward Chicago, I see basically the same thing. Nobody is wasting time putting a favorite tag on a parking lot or lamp post hide. Let’s hope folks can keep up their standards as more people find the feature.

Here here! Let the naysayers say “nay”, but hooray for the rest of us… us and our 170,000 “favorites” applied, 90% or better having some worthy significance to the favoritier, even if it may be insignificant to the rest of us.

All I have to say is, “what the hell is going on within the WGA and Groundspeak as a whole?” Years of hearing myself speak in the echo chamber about a rating system and about foundations of design with not a whole lot of action or action counter to my intuition at least, (like striking ALR’s), and suddenly the pendulum swings, HEAVILY, in my direction.

I don’t get it? Is someone finally paying attention to us? Man, it makes me want to get caching and creating again…

[JimandLinda]

A quick caching burst from seldom/seen and he could whiz past 1K!

Try to pick a “favorite” for a milestone, Alex! 😉

Looks like the Favorite rating system could be a winner. 😀

[Team Black-Cat]

@seldom|seen wrote:

All I have to say is, “what the hell is going on within the WGA and Groundspeak as a whole?” Years of hearing myself speak in the echo chamber about a rating system and about foundations of design with not a whole lot of action or action counter to my intuition at least, (like striking ALR’s), and suddenly the pendulum swings, HEAVILY, in my direction.

Everyone finally figured out that it IS all about you.

😛

Disclaimer: I’M KIDDING!

[RSplash40]

@Team Black-Cat wrote:

No your not 😛

[seldom|seen]

@Team Black-Cat wrote:

@seldom|seen wrote:

All I have to say is, “what the hell is going on within the WGA and Groundspeak as a whole?” Years of hearing myself speak in the echo chamber about a rating system and about foundations of design with not a whole lot of action or action counter to my intuition at least, (like striking ALR’s), and suddenly the pendulum swings, HEAVILY, in my direction.

Everyone finally figured out that it IS all about you.

😛

Disclaimer: I’M KIDDING!

Given enough time, they’ll all come around… 😆

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