But...but..that...would mean.......does...not...compute.....I....Papa Bear_Left wrote:I never, ever visit the forums. So I'll never, ever see the question!
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But...but..that...would mean.......does...not...compute.....I....Papa Bear_Left wrote:I never, ever visit the forums. So I'll never, ever see the question!
Craig, I believe you have hit the nail 100% hard on it's metallic noggin. I recall the statistics you added to (funnily enough) the Geocaching South East Queensland facebook page some many weeks back reflecting the colossal turnover rate of geocachers active in Australia. Those few numbers spoke volumes about the number of folks who somehow hear about geocaching (and let's not forget the intergalactic effort Groundspeak have been putting into publicity since about 2010), fiddle around with the app and are never seen again.CraigRat wrote: How to entice people here? You can't really. More and more cachers are becoming less socially connected, that's the way the game is going...it's an app on their phone, and that's about the extent of it.
I know I'm maybe one of the newest members to this game in this thread and I started in 2008. Even then, to me geocaching felt rather 'underground' for want of a better phrase. Only the committed owned a GPSr and participated in the game. Now, as we see, any erk and jerk can have a crack with no commitment. If I slap on my grumpy hat, I will say I'm not a fan of where the game has wound up. In fact Matt mentioned at a recent event here in Brisbane the question he asked Brian in NZ about if geocaching had reached some sort of critical mass. Be it known that is a topic I have pondered much.Dik: wrote: The game has changed.
Lost its covert extreme sport status = lost its appeal.
I don't think you could be further from the truth, well maybe things are different in SA.Dik: wrote: No one finding some of my harder caches (think 2 to 3 hour hike multis) for years doesn't help.
The game has changed.
Lost its covert extreme sport status = lost its appeal.
How far is too far? Far enough that the council confiscates caches in trees for safety reasons?gmj3191 wrote: Caching has revved up an awful lot over the last couple of years.
Back to that critical mass discussion that I had with Bryan a few years ago. When I started 9 years ago it was all a bit cloak and dagger. Now everyone seems to know about it and therefore land owners / managers are much more conscious about it.noikmeister wrote:How far is too far? Far enough that the council confiscates caches in trees for safety reasons?gmj3191 wrote: Caching has revved up an awful lot over the last couple of years.
I should dreg up that post and stick it here. EDIT: Can't find it.Captain Terror wrote:Craig, I believe you have hit the nail 100% hard on it's metallic noggin. I recall the statistics you added to (funnily enough) the Geocaching South East Queensland facebook page some many weeks back reflecting the colossal turnover rate of geocachers active in Australia. Those few numbers spoke volumes about the number of folks who somehow hear about geocaching (and let's not forget the intergalactic effort Groundspeak have been putting into publicity since about 2010), fiddle around with the app and are never seen again.
Found it!LouiseAnn wrote:Dam, those number were super interesting
CraigRat wrote:Out of 110497 people who have logged caches in Australia since 2000, 3/4 of them (82,000) have only ever found 17 caches or less!
3/4 of all people who've cached in Australia stopped logging caches at or before 224 days! 1/2 of them (55,000 or so) stopped caching within 2 weeks!
Growth of new cachers is pretty spectacular with 32000+ new players in 2014, however the longevity of most is still quite low: 3/4 of those people found < 9 caches and logged for only one month (approx)
It would seem that geocaching, although increasing in numbers does have any real significant 'stickyness'.
The moral of this story:
Embrace the new players, but don't bother to remember their names, they won't be around for long (statistically)
Interesting stuff, none-the-less.
For me, anyway......