Wisconsin Spirit Quest

[-cheeto-]

I kinda like how the new ones are formatted though with the picture of the cemetery and the information that is included on the pages… Nice job.

Doesn’t look like a “slap in the face” to me at all. I’m sure marc will get out and find these new one’s just like any other new cemetery caches. I took the “official” thing to just mean that he is in cohorts with those southern folks.

Keep on placing them and they will come. Looks like these kind of caches are here to stay 🙂

[Team Black-Cat]

I almost hate to bring this up, but if there is no official organization, where did the WSQ logo come from? I’ll never place a WSQ cache, but the logo represents Wisconsin cachers. I’m sorry if someone’s feelings get a little hurt, but I think it looks cheezy.

[gotta run]

Not to split hairs, but this isn’t really a “WSQ” logo, since this mentions “Established in 2008,” and as we all know WSQs were in place well before 2008. Don’t know where it came from but I’ve seen it on caches.

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[marc_54140]

@bugsmasher69 wrote:

I think it is a little tacky and a huge slap in the face to all the cachers in WI who have WSQ caches hidden for well over a year to be told these new ones are the official ones. And for as much as I disagree with alot of what Marc has to say, these new caches are really a huge diss to him because of all the hard work he has done to get the wsq going and not being mentioned in them or the implication that his work to get them all started isn’t very important.

Missed this earlier …. You DISAGREE with me? Well, the nerve of some people!

[marc_54140]

If you download the two WSQ bookmarks I maintain for Wisconsin, and run them thru GSAK, you will see a lot of variety and individualism represented.

One cacher did not like spirt, and uses WICQ – WI Cemetery Quest.

Then you have FOGs and EISs, and Old Cemeteries, and ……..

I would like to see them all use a common acroymn, but that is just me being a neatness freak.

I do ask anyone using WSQ to consider conforming to a standard of punctuation, so that Cachemate does not go bananas with fifty different alpha listings. That’s almost as bad as long names which generate useless 6 or 8 digit smart names.

BTW, as of today there are 992 caches on the list.

[bugsmasher69]

@marc_54140 wrote:

so that Cachemate does not go bananas

Or better yet write cachemate every month and request they rewrite their program to recognize all the different ways caches are named and totally solve a whole bunch of problems at one time.

[Team Deejay]

@bugsmasher69 wrote:

@marc_54140 wrote:

so that Cachemate does not go bananas

Or better yet write cachemate every month and request they rewrite their program to recognize all the different ways caches are named and totally solve a whole bunch of problems at one time.

Actually, Cachemate works just fine. It is the people operating CM that have the issues. When people use different abbreviations/punctuations, it sort the titles by what is entered as a title, so WSQ sorts before WSQ: making it harder to find the listing. Also, long repeated titles (such as “Wisconsin Spirit Quest” and “One Degree of Separation”) make it more difficult read the titles in Cachemate, as the unique part of the title is off the right side of the screen.

[Barry Butrymowicz]

Well,

I have a email into the Wisconsin Law Library, and they are researching the Wisconsin Laws to see if it is state wide, Having another conversation with our local sheriff deputy, If you are in a cemetery after hours, or if there are no posted hours If it seemed suspicious why you were there, it could be considered trespassing which in Oconto county is a $250 to $1000 fine. If you would like, I will have him give me the county ordnance # for trespassing and will post it here.

But for now I changed the wording on some of the caches and will do the rest tonight to read

PLEASE FOLLOW ANY POSTED VISITING HOURS, RESPECT THE RESIDENTS HERE AND PLEASE TRY VISIT DURING DAYLIGHT HOURS

I will also be putting the attribute for NOT RECOMMENDED AT NIGHT on all the cache pages.

Hope this makes everyone happy

Barry of sweetlife

[gotta run]

@sweetlife wrote:

Hope this makes everyone happy

Just to be clear, I didn’t raise this question as an attack, simply a question. I’m sorry if you felt otherwise.

We have had a number of logs on our caches that indicate they were hunted at night (depsite our having the “not 24/7” and “not at night”) attributes–especially with it getting dark by about 6:00 these days–so before we took a hard line on the issue with finders I wanted to have some ammo behind me.

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[Barry Butrymowicz]

was not posted towards anyone in general, just making everyone happy (except mark because we haven’t changed the names yet) sorry mark will work on that. pleasing everyone from the reviewers to the finders, few more will be out soon too, so come on out and find em.

Barry of sweetlife

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