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Thanks for sharing this info!
I, too, am not ‘techie’, but did want to stop in and say welcome to the fun! I am sure someone with the knowledge you seek will drop in soon and help. 🙂
@AstroD-Team wrote:
It almost sounds like Carron55’s (I think) cache that she had near an old school that was torn down. Somewhere near cty R and Stagecoach Drive?
If it was that cache, here is the info on it…
26 years in July.
Published – WRR 16 – Sandy Bay Road
Oh yes, stories to tell is right! lol Several members of the Krew and myself have done most of the series. The ones located in the Camp Vits area… that’s where the stories come from! There are 13 caches in that area alone, and it will take a couple hours to get them all. It is an excellent series filled with much variety. In case anyone is interested in looking at the series, I have included the CO’s bookmark page: Harry Potter Series – Manitowoc.
I can place one along Rustic Road 16 – Manitowoc County.
@Buy_The_Tie wrote:
If somebody occasionally walks across my front lawn (I live on a corner lot), I really don’t like it, and I really wish they would stop. However, if it doesn’t cause any damage to the lawn, has any harm really been done? Sure, I might go out and politely ask them to stop. If they don’t stop, am I going to sell my house and move? I don’t think so.
And how would you feel if those same somebodies occasionally walked across your lawn after you politely asked them to not do it? And if they STILL continued to do it even after you approached them again? And, after that, they STILL continued to walk across your lawn, even though they KNEW it bothered you… How would that make you feel? Keep in mind, they’re not causing any damage to the lawn, so is there any harm really being done?
Not trying to pick on you Buy_The_Tie, you just happened to provide an excellent opportunity to make a point, so please don’t take it personally.
-cheeto- Thank you for responding despite the fact that you didn’t really care to. You asked a very good question in your post… ‘Why can’t completing an event activity result in getting something?’ Folks like to win things, plain and simple. So, for completing an event activity and giving a prize (flashlight, pen, coin, whatever) or having a raffle/drawing for completing said event activity is a great idea. I do not think you will have much opposition with this idea.
Correct me if I am wrong here, but I believe the issue was not with ‘getting a prize for completing an event’ – the issue occurred with COMBINING completing an event with a general raffle drawing, giving those that completed an event an ‘unfair’ advantage over those that chose not to participate in the event.
The issue was not with the concept of having temp caches at the event. Any geocaching event is going to have any number of activities going on. Let there be temp caches at the event. Let there be burlap sack races. Let there be a whoever wears a red shirt contest. Let there be a general ‘for being in attendance’ raffle. Have a scavenger hunt. Have bingo cards. Have whatever type of activity you would like to have at the event. Have prizes for all of them. General door prize = raffle/prize – Temp cache hunt = completely separate prize – Burlap sack race = completely separate prize.
If there are prizes given away or drawings held for the activities, I think the concept is simple here… keep ’em separated.
Guess I’ll jump in with both feet here. I have several points to make, so I apologize for the length of this post.
1. I do not understand the reason for people’s insensitivity and rudeness. I am in no way singling any individual out… merely making an observation and forming my own opinion.
The threads on this forum are much like a television station or a radio station. If you do not care for the programming, you are free to change the station – your choice. If you do not care for the topic of conversation in a thread, you are not obligated to post a response. Feel free to skip over the thread and read/post to a topic that is more to your liking.
2. I found it a bit offensive that the idea of this topic coming up again was an issue. I was not a member of this organization when this topic was previously discussed, so it is not being brought up ‘again’ for me.
As a growing organization desiring to increase its membership, it makes sense that what some folks consider ‘old’ topics or issues will be brought up again. New members bring with them their own opinions and ideas and should be able to voice them, and if that means rehashing some topics, so be it. Did it ever occur to anyone that since the issue is being brought up again, that it was not fully resolved in the first place?
3. The issue of logging temporary cache finds… Regardless of my own personal opinion, I have some understanding of both sides of the issue. In previous posts, there were some good points made concerning why folks should be able to log them and why they should not. The fact remains that whatever opinion we hold here will not do much to change things as the logging for finds is done on GC.com.
Geocaching is many different things to many different people. The rules of the game allow us the flexibility to play in ways that suit our individual preferences, and I am thankful for that. To some, numbers are everything. To others, they mean nothing. Then there are all the rest that fall in-between. Deriving a solution to this issue would be challenging, and would have to be brought up and resolved elsewhere.
4. On to the op’s question which brought this topic up…
“Why should I be penalized for not looking for a temp cache? They (WGA BOD or the Picnic Committee) wanted to make temps “worth something” for finding them. So ya got extra tickets for the drawing. How is that fair?”
I believe I understand what you are saying here. Everyone in attendance received a ticket for a drawing at the event. If you chose to participate in searching for temp caches, you received additional tickets. You feel that receiving additional tickets for this drawing was unfair to those that chose not to search for the temp caches. It gave them an ‘unfair’ advantage, so-to-speak. I can understand why you might feel that way.
If there are going to be prizes at an event, why can’t different activities have different prizes? For instance, why can’t there be a ‘door prize’ for attending. There could be a general raffle that is done because you attended. If there are additional activities then there could be additional drawings or prizes.
A possible answer concerning temporary caches would be to hold separate drawings or give separate prizes to those who chose to participate in searching for them – a chance at winning something ‘extra’ for doing something ‘extra’.
It seems like that may be a solution to appease ‘most of the people, most of the time’.
Congratulations on 4,000 finds! Cache on!
Anybody having trouble getting PQ’s this morning?
Ditto the congrats. I had the pleasure of doing the Dessert Series. It was a fun and challenging series with some unique containers and hides.
Or, if you like, you can do this online by going here… https://nocall.wisconsin.gov/web/home.asp
The date you sign up determines the date when telemarketing calls should decrease. If you sign up by June 1 (next Monday) you should be on the list on July 1.
You can add your mobile phone number(s) to this list now also.
You can view the schedule of events on the cache page (GC1PBQM).
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