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I have a hard time with this sometimes and maybe it is because I am a hider and stay on top of my caches but sometimes a CO needs a boost to do some maintenance. Now if I go search for a regular or maybe even a large container that I cannot find and truly believe it is gone should I post a needs maintenance? I just did this for a regular that had only 1 dnf prior to me searching. Now a micro in the woods without a dnf prior to my search then I would post a detailed dnf if I didn’t find any remnants of a cache or the area is still like it used to be. Like if area has been clear cut or a landing has been made over the cache area then it may be gone.
Just looking for some opinions one this.
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Personally, I wouldn’t post a “needs maintenance” if I hadn’t been out there myself. I suppose maybe if there were many DNF’s, but not one. You never know, the last person could have been searching at night, or entered coordinates in manually and made a mistake. But this is just how I feel about it, not sure that it’s right.
Not all who wander are lost. -J.R.R. Tolkien
If it is the one I am thinking of, I think a “needs archived” is in order
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I guess there is no easy answer to this. There are a lot of factors that go into it. If I dnf a cache and I know that the CO is one who keeps up on his caches, I’ll just post the DNF. If it is a CO who has a history of ignoring caches, then I might post a Needs Maint.
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I posted this in the Lonely Cache Game Suggestions too but it overlaps. I am not sure if everyone looks at all the forums so here it is.
Here is something I found and curious about.
I there anything we can do about caches like this GC22DMD ? Here is from the cache description This cache is the FINAL for the 4 “Teamed Up v.2″ caches that must be found to obtain clues that will lead you to the final cache.
Ok fine but one of the caches needed is GC23Y55 . Now this cache is archived and no longer available. Cache GC22DMD and GC23Y5R would not be able to be found? Sound like a great cache and then a multi at the end but shouldn’t GC22DMD be archived or at least put under owner maintenance for them to fix it up the cache page in a timely manner if some of the stages are gone?
Could I post a needs maintenance log from here without ever trying for it because a stage is gone?
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If you post a Needs Archive log on those mystery caches where they are no longer findable due to archived components, they will be managed.
We have a ? cache out here where you need to find TBs that have clues on them. All the bugs are long gone, but people say it is still solvable because it only has a few possible choices. I had placed a “archived” request before being asked to withdraw it, which I did.
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I posted this in the Lonely Cache Game Suggestions too but it overlaps. I am not sure if everyone looks at all the forums so here it is. Here is something I found and curious about. I there anything we can do about caches like this GC22DMD ? Here is from the cache description This cache is the FINAL for the 4 “Teamed Up v.2″ caches that must be found to obtain clues that will lead you to the final cache. Ok fine but one of the caches needed is GC23Y55 . Now this cache is archived and no longer available. Cache GC22DMD and GC23Y5R would not be able to be found? Sound like a great cache and then a multi at the end but shouldn’t GC22DMD be archived or at least put under owner maintenance for them to fix it up the cache page in a timely manner if some of the stages are gone? Could I post a needs maintenance log from here without ever trying for it because a stage is gone?
What that cache needs is really a new write-up. The CO “Teamed Up” with another CO when they created that series. The other CO archived all of his caches, so the CO of this cache changed it to a straight-up multi. There is a contained at the posted coords with the coords to the final. It’s too bad that a CO can’t change the cache type once it is published.
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GC22DMD CO posted a note to get it fixed. Just needed a bit of prodding.
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