Public Service announcement….it’s okay if you DON’T find i

[gotta run]

Remember that another part of the original message here is about logging “Found it” when you didn’t. Yes you can play the game you want to play it but when you log a found it when no cache is there just because you’re frustrated, it tells the owner all is ok when it’s not.

Unfortunately some players just think it’s fun4 them to do stuff like that, and the game suffers as a consequence.

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[Spike007]

Some very good observations here, and good reasons to log a DNF. I almost always do, and checking my logs it’s been over a hundred – some that I was happy to go back and find later and have a head-slapping moment. 🙄 (I dnf’d 5 or 6 just yesterday, but still had a fun day.) I agree – it helps as a cache owner to know if people are not finding it so you can check in on it promptly.

[furfool]

I don’t want to hijack this thread, but I have an observation of my own. I have noticed that this is not just a one way street. I have seen a number of caches with multiple DNFs logged. Some with up to a half dozen dating back a number of months. Understand here that I am not looking to single anybody out. I have noticed one cache owner with 65+ hides and only watches some of them. I can understand that if you have new hides on your watch list, you will be inundated with emails, especially in the first few days. But isn’t it also the cache owner’s responsibility to keep an eye on the posts? In some cases of DNFs, I have even emailed the cache owners only to never hear from them. In my eyes, if an owner doesn’t want to keep an eye on their caches, they should archive them or put them up for adoption.

[gotta run]

@furfool wrote:

I don’t want to hijack this thread, but I have an observation of my own. I have noticed that this is not just a one way street. I have seen a number of caches with multiple DNFs logged. Some with up to a half dozen dating back a number of months.

You are right that owner maintenance is the other side of the problem, and unfortunately one not likely to ever be solved. It is of course true that things happen, and people move, get sick, or worse.

But there are those cases where people just seem to abdicate their maintenance responsibility. There’s no excuse for that, particularly if you are still actively finding caches and/or putting out new caches.

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