'Useless Hints'

[geofreak]

I came across this thread
http://ubbx.groundspeak.com/6/ubb.x?a=t ... 8076052151
on the groundspeak forums and got a few laughs. Does anyone have any 'Useless Hints' or 'comical anecdotes' from downunder to add.

[swampgecko]

I came across this thread ... on the groundspeak forums and got a few laughs. Does anyone have any 'Useless Hints' or 'comical anecdotes' from downunder to add.

Yep I have just added my clues... I didn't realise how shocking a problem it was.. or how upset some people get, and I will be redoing my clues to suite from now on...Just looking at every cache I have out. I don't think any of my clues actually help... Oh yes one actually does.. the hint for http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_de ... x?ID=50329 actually helps out....
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Will try to do better in the future.. I promise

[Mind Socket]

Hints are a strange beast. It seems that the lack of guidelines (shock horror, gasp, did he say not enough guidelines?) on hints means that all hints are always decrypted by some (myself included). As a finder, I regularly decrypt=y on cache urls because half the time, they're useless anyway, and if they're useful, they're not total spoilers. Besides, my bad memory means I usually don't remember what I previously read on screen when I'm out and about.

As a hider, I can't see the point in saying "it's under a rock" when the cache is in a rock field, but I'll quite happily lead people astray on a puzzle cache with a deliberately useless hint, if I think that it won't spoil the experience. End result these days is that I don't post any hints or I make them hard to decrypt so the playing field is more level.

Cheers,
- Rog
... Of course we're all mad ... any sane person knows that you're _supposed_ to put food in plastic containers ...

[Two Goth Geeks]

I download gc.com pages to my PDA but don't unencrypt them until I need to.. with a program called "Hint Decoder"