Forum Replies Created
-
AuthorPosts
-
Welcome aboard, looks like you hit the ground running!
On the Left Side of the Road...The saddest thing about this is how easily it could be avoided, or resolved.
As I said to a fellow player recently, “If you knew that something that you did was REALLY bothering other players in the game, even if you didn’t agree with or understand why it was bothering them, wouldn’t you just change your behavior if you could in order to play nice?”
Well of course you would. I know that some well-deserved posts made in my general direction has caused me to look at the things I post and say and decide to think first, post second.
What is causing the biggest brouhaha here is NOT the instances of “out caching with my friends” logs. What IS causing the issue is the way that GPX files and spreadsheets and whatever are simply passed around like party favors and these tours are being thrown in our face via the WGA forums and elsewhere as a big giant middle finger that is raised week after week.
Even continuing to call these things “puzzle cache tours” is a slap in the face. Think of what the word TOUR implies. Not “group hunt” or even “outing,” but TOUR. I’m sorry, but words mean things.
So that’s what I think, but since I can’t change the behavior, I’m focusing on what I can change, which is our own caches. Again, it’s not vindictive, it’s just reactionary.
On the Left Side of the Road...On the Left Side of the Road...Alex, I think I understand what you’re trying to get across here but I am uncomfortable with your characterization of my representing the “purest intent of the sport.” While I disagree with certain caching behavior, I’ve tried to make it clear that it is a disgreement of respect rather than ethics. There is nothing unethical about making a GPX file of dozens of puzzle caches freely available for the asking, I just happen to think it’s disrespectful. However, I admit that I’m in the minority on this point. And even if I weren’t, would it matter? No.
Our decision to archive various puzzle caches is also not related to just one individual or one episode. Again, that’s why I started the poll a while back. The tribe has spoken–logging without solving is OK. So, as Mrs. gotta run said, “What’s the point of having a puzzle?” A very good point indeed. And since we were also told that if this bothered us, we should reevaluate our priorities, we did. There is no vindictive motivation in our decision. Just an adaptation to reality, plain and simple.
In other words, I argued the point, I lost, I’m over it. From now on if I don’t want a cache to be a stop on the tour, we’ll put it somewhere that the tour bus doesn’t stop.
And more important, by doing so we hopefully will create a better, more rewarding final cache experience in the process. After all, a key reason that puzzle finals make such tempting tour bus targets is that they tend to be T 1.5. Make them a T4 or 5, and you can’t get the bus there, plus hopefully it’s more rewarding than finding a half-camoed bison tube hanging on a rusty wire in a cedar tree.
On the Left Side of the Road...8) x 1,500!
On the Left Side of the Road...8) 8) 8)
On the Left Side of the Road...8) x 1,900! Sorry we couldn’t make it.
On the Left Side of the Road...@seldom|seen wrote:
@gotta run wrote:
Edit: Never mind. Just jousting at windmills.
…see page 1
True, true. It’s sunny outside and I think I’ll go caching.
On the Left Side of the Road...It’s even better than that:
President Obama’s fiscal 2011 budget will generate nearly $10 trillion in cumulative budget deficits over the next 10 years, $1.2 trillion more than the administration projected, and raise the federal debt to 90 percent of the nation’s economic output by 2020, the Congressional Budget Office reported Thursday.
We are a country that is financially and morally bankrupt, rotting inside out from the core. But we’ll all have free healthcare. It’ll be “just like Christmas.”
On the Left Side of the Road...As much as I’d like to take over two of the series…one of them, there’s no way I’m getting strung out to maintain it! And the other, I’m just not sure if we could adequately keep one of the caches in play, so it just might have to be real gone…
On the Left Side of the Road...I agree that making threats crosses the line, and obviously doing bodily injury or property damage does as well. For instance, biting the finger off a 75-year old man who was protesting health care reform…slashing the tires of 20 vehicles at a campaign headquarters in Milwaukee…spraying campaign workers with mace…Yeah, I would agree that behavior all crosses the line. (Trying to remember when that occurred…memory a bit foggy I’m afraid.)
And making a movie called “Death of a President?” Well I guess that’s protected, albeit in very bad taste.
Each end of the political spectrum has its lunatic fringe, but we must be careful that disagreement and debate is not criminalized. Unfortunately, it is all too easy for the ruling class to cast any criticism as inciteful “hate speech” that must be squelched. Or to put it another way…
I’m sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and disagree with this administration, somehow you’re not patriotic. We need to stand up and say we’re Americans, and we have the right to debate and disagree with any administration.
–Hillary Clinton
On the Left Side of the Road...Edit: Never mind. Just jousting at windmills.
On the Left Side of the Road...Awesome! (literally)
On the Left Side of the Road...03/24/2010 at 5:23 pm in reply to: Hot Tamales! CodeJunkie Stamps (or is it stomps?) to Nbr 400 #19258818) x 400! I would have guessed you’d be in the 1,000 club by now, but that’s just because I see your logs on so many puzzle caches on our watchlist!!! 😀
On the Left Side of the Road...I will disagree with you cheesehead, to the extent that this game is evolving the way the majority of players want it to. There are more caches available today than ever before and new ones being published all the time. The difference that I see is that the majority of new caches that come out seem to be low D/T traditionals. I’m making that claim purely on my observation of notifications that come in my inbox, and not on any research. However, just look at how popular the various “treasure trails” are where people can get hundreds of caches per day. So you can say this is good, or you can say this is bad, but it doesn’t matter because it is what is happening because it is what people want. Supply meets demand.
In other words, the spots that are being vacated by these puzzle caches will be taken up by another cache.
On the Left Side of the Road... -
AuthorPosts
