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Congratulations on a milestone that really matters!
On the Left Side of the Road...Just let the logs go. There’s a famous team in the area here that logs excactly the same thing on every one of their finds: “Easy cache for our team to find.” Doesn’t matter if it takes them a hour to find it, doesn’t matter if it’s a D1 or a D5, and they don’t realize or don’t care that this might be just a bit insulting. Just consider the source and let the logs speak for themselves.
On the Left Side of the Road...Thanks (again) for the congratulations. One of our kids’ favorite caches and one they were involved in creating. Though I got to carry the cache a mile down the trail.
On the Left Side of the Road...Not to steal the thread (well, I did start it) but to address comments above…we are still very much active in geocaching; however, I (the only member of team gotta run who ever frequented the forums anyway) am no longer as active here, but that’s another story.
On the Left Side of the Road...The logic of this escapes me. On one hand, you have a caches get put on the force-archive track for a single needs maintenance log. For instance, GCNMHA (see April 30, 2009 log), disabled the same day a single NM log is posted for a wet log.
But on Oasis, you have two DNFs on a highly visible, large cache, sitting in the open, on a postage-stamp-sized island, visited frequently by non-cachers, where a previous attempter found the tether rope with the cache missing, and where the COs are known to have abandoned cache maintenance efforts….
On the Left Side of the Road...@-cheeto- wrote:
Whomever claims this island when the current cache is archived, please place something that muggles will not mess with. That way it can stay there for many years.
Or find a more creative placement 😈
On the Left Side of the Road...@glorkar wrote:
Couldn’t someone contact Wis Kid? Some long time cachers have made the notes. It’s not like it’s coming from some noobs.
I’m guessing (??) that reviewers have already gotten notice of it based on the two “Needs Archived” notes. While I can’t say for sure why it hasn’t been placed on the fast track to oblivion, I have been told that a system is used where the terrain and difficulty rating are compare to the # of DNFs; i.e., a 1/1 cache goes on the fast track quicker than a 5/5. Now the obvious downside to that is when a cache is clearly missing like this one, no one is going to actually waste the time to go look for it. So if you wanna get it moving, I guess that means we should all log some DNFs.
On the Left Side of the Road...Just to confirm, my Island Caches bookmark is limited specifically to islands, not the larger subset of “water accessible caches.” There could be a need for that larger list however.
Regarding “Oasis,” don’t hold your breath waiting for it to be repaired, and it appears no amount of “It’s not there” logs are going to put this one on the path to force-archival, which is a shame.
On the Left Side of the Road...http://www.beforeyougo.us/play_byg
On the Left Side of the Road...Thanks everyone. This was completely unexpected and is one of our favorite owned hides. Don’t know how big the voting pool was but to quote one of my favorite movies, “It’s a major award!”
On the Left Side of the Road...Congratulations Sagasu on the milestone and congratulations to you and HP2 for tackling this cache. Seeing the pictures brought back memories, many of them terrifying but all of them good!
8) x 3,000…and many more!
On the Left Side of the Road...@Lostby7 wrote:
I hope one of our reviewers can provide more information on this.
To clarify, I did ask our reviewers and the general answer is that landowners own the land and what’s on it. Ideally I’d like to come up with some caches that could be reached from the boat but are not on land. But if the tree or attachment structure is on land, well there’s your problem.
One could approach various landowners at random for explicit pemission but…not real practical. But lacking any publicly owned island or other terra firma, I have no other ideas.
On the Left Side of the Road...Because, number one, it answered Kat’s question in my mind and I felt that people deserved a chance to see the kind of attitude that we are continually subjected to “behind the scenes.” Because it would be just great if people would stop doing stuff just because they knew it would **** somebody off.
Cache together, that’s fine, whatever. But don’t post bogus events on the WGA website mocking puzzle cache owners’ concerns (happened last summer, remember?). Don’t make taunting logs when you bushwhack a puzzle cache you couldn’t solve. Don’t tell me I don’t have the right to place puzzle caches until I find X number of caches. Don’t use the WGA forums and the WGA message function to harrass people and then tell me that I’m the one being inflammatory!!!
So no, I do not want to be contacted with any MORE emails or PMs (because believe me it has been more than one).
If I was in the wrong by attempting to bring this example/illustration into the open, I just don’t see it, and I’m not sorry that I did.
On the Left Side of the Road...@Team Black-Cat wrote:
Doesn’t PM mean “private message”?
Since my PMs have been posted to various forums here I simply assumed it was common practice.
On the Left Side of the Road...Astro-D, to answer your original question, let me quote from a PM I received yesterday through the WGA website. The sender–and I’ll refrain from naming names here–advised me that the word “tour” is being used:
Especially since it appears to **** some people off.
Now, the version that I received had a word in it that I chose to edit here because this is a family-friendly forum, but I think you get the general idea.
So, this comment really answers your question much better than any way I could think of.
To me the word has a negative connotation in the context being discussed here, but what matters more are the activities being done and the motivations for them. I’ve said in these forums on several occasions that a big middle finger was being raised, and this pretty much validates my point.
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