Watching …..

[marc_54140]

I continue to be surprised by how FEW people are watching caches.

The ‘watch’ function is great for keeping track of what’s going on with a particular cache – who finds it, changes and or hints, problems, temporary disabled, perhaps it being archived, etc.

[Mister Greenthumb]

75 caches on my ever changing watchlist for various reasons. I even have a watch on one of Marcs
Some of the reasons:
entertainment
availability
watching our grandkids hides
some of our dnfs
disabled that we want to find
caches that have interesting logs written
winter availability
events
just general spying and snooping

[JimandLinda]

We’re watching more trackables than caches, as they seem to get feet, and walk away! 😡

[amita17]

How do you watch a cache (computer-wise, I mean)? I randomly pull up cache pages of those I DNF, to see if others found them and maybe I should try again. Once in a while I remember a good cache and I read the logs since mine to see others’ reactions. Good reasons have been listed on why to watch a cache, but how is this done with technology? Do you get e-mail updates?

[Mister Greenthumb]

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[gotta run]

@marc_54140 wrote:

I continue to be surprised by how FEW people are watching caches.

Maybe they’re not worth watching.

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[raslas]

We also use the watch listing to watch caches we dnf or ones that we thought were good caches and want to see what others have to say when they find them. It is a nice feature and I for one am glad to be able to utilize it.

[amita17]

Ok, I am watching now…

am I watching YOUR cache? 😈 😉

Now I have that song in my head “I always feel like, somebody’s watching me.” Thanks, self, for the earworm! 😆

[Todd300]

I don’t watch catches as I have my notifications on for that though that’s in my 35 mile radius. I have no interest in watching a cache an hour away.

Only trackable I watch is “The Key” from Peach’s Lockbox cache. I found that one a couple months ago and put the Key in a cache at the Reforestation Camp. I doubt anyone will get that Key for a while.

Otherwise, nothing on my watch list.

[labrat_wr]

I watch a few caches just because they were difficult puzzles to SSSSolve or if they are ones that have high Terrain and there may be others wanting to get together to attack them.

I also have three caches that I watch as Trailboss for an owner that moved out of state but wanted to keep the caches under their username.

Disclaimer : Always answering to a higher power.

[sandlanders]

Well, if you have a watch on an event, plus own some caches near that event, you come home from the event to find LOTS of mail in the in-box!

[Team Black-Cat]

I found out who one of the watchers of one of my caches is today. They got a notification that someone DNFed it while we were on the way back from the Eagle Source cache.

[CodeJunkie]

@marc_54140 wrote:

The ‘watch’ function is great for keeping track of what’s going on with a particular cache – who finds it, changes and or hints, problems, temporary disabled, perhaps it being archived, etc.

This is neat, but what’s the rationale for not letting a cache owner see who the “watchers” are? Or maybe I’m just missing another one of those hidden features.

[Miata]

@CodeJunkie wrote:

@marc_54140 wrote:

The ‘watch’ function is great for keeping track of what’s going on with a particular cache – who finds it, changes and or hints, problems, temporary disabled, perhaps it being archived, etc.

This is neat, but what’s the rationale for not letting a cache owner see who the “watchers” are? Or maybe I’m just missing another one of those hidden features.

I never thought about the owners being able to identify the “watchers” since it is a general cache finders option. I’m sure the powers that be figured some things are best unknown?

[marc_54140]

@sandlanders wrote:

Well, if you have a watch on an event, plus own some caches near that event, you come home from the event to find LOTS of mail in the in-box!

The trick is to ‘unwatch’ the event before you go to it!

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