Wisconsin gets toasted again

[Cheesehead Dave]

News at 11

[Lostby7]

@Cheesehead Dave wrote:

News at 11

Personally I could give a rip what someone like Criminal thinks. 🙄 Or for that matter those others which NEED to be negative about everything done outside their own actions; it’s always the same people bashing the same topics…you’d think they’d get tired of being so negative all the time.

[rogheff]

There’s a reason I don’t go on the Groundspeak forums often. It can get mighty touchy.

[Gusty Winds]

Some people sour when others are having fun and they are not. Let those who are so soured rot in their own private h…

Did I say that? 😳
Krug made me do it!

[decdogg]

Look at it this way. All those people are sitting at home behind their computers.. Where monitoring all the geocache sites, and all the logs, and all the forums. Trying to make sure everything agrees with their parochial way of thinking. Well it keeps them too busy to get out in the field where they would just be in the way.

Let them talk. Think of them as mosquitoes. Just irritating. Nothing more.

[Cheesehead Dave]

I agree that it’s a tired old song, but still, there actually a couple of good points in there…

[Devil’s Advocate Mode=”on”]

Why do people log multiple “Attended” logs for the same event?

[OuttaHand]

@Cheesehead Dave wrote:

I agree that it’s a tired old song, but still, there actually a couple of good points in there…

[Devil’s Advocate Mode=”on”]

Why do people log multiple “Attended” logs for the same event?

Why log multiple “attended” logs for an event? Simple. Because we can’t log multiple “Found It” logs.

I maintain one very simple opinion:
If there is a cache hidden and you need to use coordinates in a GPS to find it, then you have found that cache.

I do think they make one valid point in that discussion at GC.com. It’s the idea of pocket caches and some of the really lame “caches” sitting on the table at the event. You walk up to it, sign a notebook, and you’ve got a smiley. This goes back to my original definition. You didn’t need to find it using a GPS.

I honestly believe that if any of the nay-sayers involved in that discussion at GC.com would come to our events and find some of the temp caches, they would probably have a different opinion of them. Most of the temp caches at the events I’ve been to are completely worthy of being regular caches. The only things that prevent that are the .1 mile rule and the fact that they’re temporary.

The only reason people are able to get 50 finds at one event is the fact that they are so close together. It’s not, necessarily, that they are so easy — they are just easy to get to.

[ecorangers]

😈
Ah…..where to begin.
When my family first started geocaching, the way you logged an event was to click on “found it.” And that’s how we logged our temp. finds for events as well using the same cache page. Not sure how long ago the switch was made but they changed the logging from “found it,” to “attended it.” I’m sure Cheesehead Dave remembers this as well. 😯

One solution to keep the temp finds and the event finds separate would be to log it like a CITO event. When you look at the event page for a CITO event you have two options. You can log an “attended” or a “found it.”

So for Wisconsin events and other states that log temps for that matter, we can click on “attended” and then click on “found it” for each temp. cache on the event cache page.

I get a kick out of the ones who say that “numbers don’t matter” yet they are the ones that keep bringing it up. 😉

Tami
FYI There are other states who log temp. caches the same as we do. Heck, we’ve been to an event in another state where they let you log caches you had found previously that were permanent caches, (you wold log them on the cache event page). But that’s neither here nor there.

[One Paddle Short]

[Team Honeybunnies]

[knoffer]

[Lostby7]

@knoffer wrote:

Is it just a group of cachers that feel it is wrong or is it the general consensus of the caching community?
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The vocal few dislike the logging of temps for sure; it’s the same voices over at GC over and over. I swear they have nothing better to do than repeat the same tired comments on every new thread. But…they (and it is the same people every time) also complain about everything else as well. Seriously their opinions really don’t mean squat. Log em’ if ya want. Until they create a “temps found” category on GC this debate will go on and on and on…….

[Team B Squared]

@knoffer wrote:

Is it just a group of cachers that feel it is wrong or is it the general consensus of the caching community?
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I have never made my feelings known about this before…but I do not like this practice. However, I do not really care enough to sit and argue about it either. I just wanted to let everyone know that there are people out there that don’t like the way temps are logged who don’t sit on the groundspeak forums and complain about it intermittently throughout the year.

[Lostby7]

@Team B Squared wrote:

@knoffer wrote:

Is it just a group of cachers that feel it is wrong or is it the general consensus of the caching community?
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I have never made my feelings known about this before…but I do not like this practice. However, I do not really care enough to sit and argue about it either. I just wanted to let everyone know that there are people out there that don’t like the way temps are logged who don’t sit on the groundspeak forums and complain about it intermittently throughout the year.

Thanks for your comments. My guess is that there are also many people who do log the finds but don’t post over at GC because they either don’t care enough about what others think or just don’t feel like getting bashed all over the forums.

I started to log my temps back in the beginning but have since removed all the multiple event logs (about 200 of them or so). I choose not to log them now but I will defend the practice as I firmly believe there should be somewhere to log the temp finds that were made (if a GPS was used to find them). In the absence of a “Event Temp”category I guess this will have to do for now.

What disappoints me is that the powers that be over at GC will not make this issue go away.

[GrouseTales]

My email is used on the “Wisconsin Geocaching Association” username, and I subsequently receive several angry emails after each event. These emails are from people who don’t live anywhere near WI, and didn’t go to the event.

Like I tell all these people, everyone is welcome to attend. Once you’ve attended a WGA event and found some of our temps, you can then make an informed decision regarding multiple logs.

I personally stopped logging the temps after they changed the “found it” to “attended”. I’d like to log the temps, but it seem silly to me to log them as “attended”, but that’s just my opinion 🙂

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