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@Ry and Ny wrote:
Tacky.
Yet delightfully unrefined.
On the Left Side of the Road...The Packers didn’t beg me to come back! No one sent me flowers! Ted Thompson hurt my feelings!!!! I just wanna cry! Waaaaaaaaahhhhh!!!!
Ooooh…I think I’m gonna get flamed for this one 😯 😯 😯 😯
On the Left Side of the Road...08/11/2008 at 4:50 pm in reply to: Reviewer question (?) Needs maintenance vs. Needs archive #1894307@-cheeto- wrote:
So many cachers use the “needs maintenance” log when in fact it probably doesn’t even need maintenance. I see this a lot.
Good point and I should clarify. In fact, we’ve had to respond to “needs maintenance” logs in the past because the cacher was adamant the cache wasn’t there, when in fact it was.
I am thinking more along the lines where the DNF logs clearly indicate there is a problem with the cache, not that it simply couldn’t be found. So, “DNF because forest was cut down,” that sort of thing.
My question was twofold:
1. What logs do reviewers see? Both “maintenance” and “archive” logs?
2. What are good parameters for posting either? I guess there are instances where owners don’t mind getting DNFs in perpetuity, but if there is a good chance of a real problem with a cache–not just that it’s a clever hide–what is the best use of either log type?
On the Left Side of the Road...Out flying today….
On the Left Side of the Road...Hey, thanks! We never imagined when we found our first cache that we’d find 600, and now the pull of 1,000 is already starting to be felt amongst the team.
And heck, we had no idea we still had more puzzles solved than cachelovskys… 😉
On the Left Side of the Road...Fit and healthy till I’m dead.
On the Left Side of the Road...Not another “I wuz here” card!
On the Left Side of the Road...It really depends on the person/people doing the hiding. Are they responsible and committed to the requirements? These are quite clearly laid out but, like anything else in life, some people are just uncommitted or lazy.
Personally I don’t see how you could hide a cache before attempting at least a certain # of them, but what # that is, I don’t know. Otherwise, how the heck do you know what at least a reasonable hide is?
But I just don’t think there’s a way to legislate a solution to this problem via any gc guidelines/requirements.
On the Left Side of the Road...Hunting caches in the winter makes it easier to follow Cachelovsky’s footprints on our way to be STF… 😆
On the Left Side of the Road...@marc_54140 wrote:
Something else to consider for the buggy summer months – a lot of these places are relatively bug free. Makes for some pleasant caching.
Say what? The last one we did that you put out had so many biting horsefiles I thought we were in Amityville…or maybe it was my cologne… 😯
On the Left Side of the Road...“I wuz here” cards should be outlawed. There, I’ve said it. Just sign the log book to tell us you were here. Nobody gives a dang about your moldy old cards. People who leave them in caches should be forced to listen to Yanni for eternity.
On the Left Side of the Road...Well, here’s a perfect example of our frustration with “regular” caches.
Did a number of regular size caches in Door County today and took the time to CITO…CITO the caches, that is. Ended up with about 100 various moldy business cards, expired coupons, and sports schedules. Also an empty jar of baby food–the jar in one cache and the lid in another. A flip flop.
No, these aren’t all from newbies. Someone who had just marked their 200th cache thought they’d celebrate it by tearing off a big hunk of cardboard off a beer carton and writing on the back of it, then stuffing it into…wait for it…a TB hotel.
Now, let me say we had a great time caching. And having regular sized containers made the search easier. But not one of these caches had anything in it that was worth trading even if we wanted to.
I can only imagine how frustrated we’d be if we had placed these caches.
On the Left Side of the Road...@Cachelovskys wrote:
Thank you gotta run for pointing that out…I hope our avatar is more fitting now!
That’s awesome! I can see the family resemblance.
On the Left Side of the Road...@rogheff wrote:
I got tired of personally providing the world with shiny new geoswag only to get rocks, business cards, bottlecaps and pinecones in return.
Initially, the reason was about money I suppose. Over time it was about the effort required to develop an interesting cache.
Yes, this hits the nail on the head. Despite the advice given in these forums that, essentially, we should expect things to disappear when we place boxes of stuff in public, it’s the frustration at having caches deteriorate or disappear which has caused us to replace our regular runs to Fleet Farm to buy more ammo boxes with online trips to eBay to buy more bison tubes.
The point of placing caches is to give back to the geocommunity by having something interesting/fun to do, not by being the Free Swag Store. You can take people to interesting places and give them creative hides just as well with micro caches, which don’t get muggled as much and are too small to fit dirty golf balls into.
On the Left Side of the Road...Hey, Cachelovskys, isn’t it about time you updated your avatar to include the whole team??? The Simpsonizer is still working…
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