The Bronze at Lithgow Zombie.
We have all done, for want of a better word 'ordinary' caches that have little or no benefit to the cacher other than increasing the find and notching up another lost moment in time.
I want to revive the discussion started by i! in September of 04 and concluding with Cached and Bearleft in late January of this year.
Ultimately this thread led to the current 'recommendations' system that GCA cachers now enjoy and use to choose fav caches by those who have visited. A very useful feature if you are visiting an area and want to cut through the 'ordinary' caches that are in the area.
This thread concluded with Cached saying:
What do people think about incorporating sub-categories for recommendation. Those cachers that like particularly views, like me(eyes icon) or the puzzle factor (brain icon) or even an all round hard but fantastic cache (trophy icon). The more icons or higher "find:recommend" ratio or the higher the rating or some similar method which is easy and usable by all.I was only discussing this last night with AGSMKY (who came for a Barbie and a swim).
Now I can go and recommend a heap of caches that I hadn't because someone else already had...
One other thing we discussed and it made a lot of sense to us, is that it would be great to have a small log, or a drop down box, or icon, which says why I am recommending this cache. Was it a spectacular view? Was it brain work? Clever container? Unless there is a quick link to the recommenders log, it might be hard to locate where they made their comment and especially if it was a mystery, they may not have said much in the log.
The Bronze.
Thread ref. -
http://forum.geocaching.com.au/viewtopic.php?t=1453