Retracted caches

[Lostby7]

I was watching an Earthcache and it had many many finds and today the listing was retracted by Geo-Aware. I got sent the retraction notice but now that it is no longer a cache I cannot see the page….I was wondering what happens to the folks who found it, do they still get a smile or does that go away too?

[Team Deejay]

Unfortunately, this is not supposed to happen. We only retract caches which haven’t been found. The cache should have been archived if there was some kind of issue. If you could email me the GC number of the cache, I will discuss it with Geoaware, and hopefully get it republished and archived.

[Lostby7]

I will PM the notification I was sent…it did not include the GC # and the links are dead to me but may work with your reviewer superpowers.

[Lostby7]

I see the EC has now been published and archived….(no longer “Retracted”).

[Team Deejay]

I guess they followed my suggestion. I emailed them and suggested they do exactly that. My guess is that it was placed without permission. I suppose that if you are going to place a cache in a national park without permission, you really shouldn’t include “Ask the ranger for directions to the benchmark” in the cache writeup. 😆

[Lostby7]

I do find it interesting that since it was reinstated then archived it has been found like 5 or six times….people just keep logging it…..

[Team Deejay]

Which is probably why they retracted it. That said, retraction is the wrong approach. If it was truly a problem, we can lock the archived cache to prevent future logging.

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