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You can't rate a cache until you find it though. So if you DNF it, you can't rate it. Why can't we rate a DNF? I've recommended a cache that I've never found based upon the great location it was in & the fun of the hike... whether or not I found the box at the end doesn't change my opinion of it & ...

EcoTeam wrote:So let me propose a new solution

Sounds like a good idea... but its not going to stop people trying to do more caches in a day then the last person did.

Did you set it wrong when you started? No, but it can be easily done & the format the datum is in needs to be stressed very highly to new cachers. If you see a cache by a noob with no finds do you worry about this? Yes, enough to not race out for the FTF. UTMs are good for manual mapping from the G...

acts2youthgroup wrote:Can someone please tell me where the prize money or trohy for the record in one day is because I did not recieve any when I took the record out to 77.

It's in a cache somewhere... I've seen it... it has your name on it and everything. You'll just have to keep looking until you find it.

PS. Just to be sure, I'm not upset that my original draft guidelines have been changed, but I would like to see some discussion and consensus before things are removed. My apologies... I didn't mean to try and take anything over. Simply stated, there are NO claimed records for any number of caches ...

Setting records isn't meant to be easy. Having others 'tag along' for the ride and offer assistance or companionship on some caches, but not all, is akin to having a support crew. Not on, IMHO I don't think that that accurately represents the number of caches completed. If, say, on one of the days ...

I like the idea of rating caches on a variety of factors, but if we do lets keep the scale as being above 0, eg: rate from 1 to 10 rather than from -5 to 5, I think its a bit rude to give someone a negative score. I'd also like to see the current 'recommended' listings allowed to go beyond 10 caches...

<p>It's interesting to see how the <i>draft guidelines</i> have been modified so far </p> <p> Yes, maybe we can use the discussion page of the wiki to nut it out. I made the changes because the initial page was put up as a 'draft' and input welcomed. That's what a wiki is about. I think once the pa...

Aushiker wrote:Are you actually using them? BTW it is around $6.00+ per month Australian

Yes, I'm using them... and it's $5/month with a discount code

http://www.carbonite.com - $5 per month - unlimited data. Just click the buttons in Windows Explorer and it keeps at unlimited amount of data backed up offline for you. This solution will likely work out cheaper than external hard drives in the long run & is certainly far easier to maintain.

For a traditional I reckon the only requirement is that you put your name in the logbook. For a puzzle/mystery/multi cache... the owner can use discretion as to whether the person actually solved the puzzle (see the discusion on convoy caching). For a webcam cache you should have to have a photo tak...

Just read this topic & have a question? If you have a double log on a cache by 1 team is it OK to delete the second log?? If you, as the owner of the cache, feel that logging two finds is inappropriate then it's certainly OK for you to delete one of the logs. It would be polite to ask them about it...

[quote="Bunya"]I would never go so far as deleting a find log on one of my caches, no matter what I thought of the validity of the ‘find’.
IÂ’m not sure that I see it as “the responsibility of the cache ownerÂâ€

I use spoilersync to pull all the pictures into GSAK. When I export to HTML there is a little tick box there that says something about converting 'file://' links... which (I believe) is meant to get around this problem... however I don't know how this would relate to GPXView. I also found that I had...

I can envisage very few scenarios where a cache less than 150m from another, existing cache, would add value to geocaching. A recent example I can think of was 2 multi's - the end point of one (with a hidden cache) was 10m from the start point of another. This got detected & later altered, however t...