New Virtual cache.. TSUNAMI..

Slider & Smurf · Post by **Slider & Smurf** » 06 January 05 5:00 pm

Some of the vitriol contained in the gc.com forum was pretty scary - but one post summed it up pretty well:
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Lemon Fresh Dog wrote:We all lose so that no one loses.

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C'est la vie.

leek · Post by **leek** » 06 January 05 5:03 pm

I was going to give them a very eloquent spray - but they've closed the topic and said they will close any other topics about this cache - So much for the "land of the free"...

riblit · Post by **riblit** » 06 January 05 5:11 pm

Mind Socket wrote:For the latter, I hope someone explained to them (using small words) that we're a day ahead. Some might say years.

2 pages of posts and one worked that out. That's average.

embi · Post by **embi** » 06 January 05 5:19 pm

I have just resigned

riblit · Post by **riblit** » 06 January 05 5:24 pm

leek wrote:I was going to give them a very eloquent spray - but they've closed the topic and said they will close any other topics about this cache - So much for the "land of the free"...

Feel free my vege friend, the topic is still open - that was a 'me too' on the end..

leek · Post by **leek** » 06 January 05 5:27 pm

No - it's definitely been closed... Don't worry - I've tried...

Just contemplating creating a new topic full of graphic photos from the disaster... and a few choice comments...

Papa Bear_Left · Post by **Papa Bear_Left** » 06 January 05 5:31 pm

Hmmm... I don't think that there's much doubt that this disaster warrants anything that can encourage donations to relief agencies.

But how about a flood in Pakistan that kills 20,000 people? Still worthy enough?

A typhoon that kills 1,500 people in the Caribbean? Still sufficiently 'special case'?

A train wreck that kills 500 in Somalia?

A collapsing viewing platform that kills a school group of 50?

My brother's bicycle accident that broke his bike, his leg and his eTrex?

Where do you draw the line?

embi · Post by **embi** » 06 January 05 5:36 pm

Maybe all the "finds" can be changed to notes and show that it wasnt about the numbers???

Think about it

leek · Post by **leek** » 06 January 05 5:45 pm

I was pretty shocked that it would even enter someone's head that I would make a charitable donation just so I could log a cache find, so I have already changed mine to a note...

To me this cache appeal was a prompt from a community that I belong to... nothing more...

And Hell... if you can get a smiley for breaking the law by speeding - why not from this cache???

I don't blame you for resigning Embi... gc.com has overstepped the mark...

OzGuff · Post by **OzGuff** » 06 January 05 5:47 pm

If you are a regular reader of the GC.com forums you will recognize many of the posters as regular stirrers, so a grain of salt is needed. Unfortunately, the "guidelines" are a touchy subject for many, and a nerve was hit.

Riblit knew that he was on the edge by approving the cache, though I am sure that he (and the other Aussie reviewers) had no idea of the reaction it would cause. I wish embi had not resigned.

I applaud Team Piggy for doing something positive. Give if you can, and don't forget your local charities!

Post by **CraigRat** » 06 January 05 5:50 pm

http://forums.groundspeak.com/GC/index. ... nami+cache

I tell you what, I'm glad they closed the thread, I was getting a bit fired up reading their US-Centric views.

As someone said... there was a thing done for Sept 11.....

Hmmmm... makes you think...

Post by **CraigRat** » 06 January 05 5:51 pm

embi wrote:Maybe all the "finds" can be changed to notes and show that it wasnt about the numbers???

Think about it

Consider mine done!!!

riblit · Post by **riblit** » 06 January 05 5:55 pm

leek wrote:
To me this cache appeal was a prompt from a community that I belong to... nothing more...

exactly - We had already made a donation, this cache was simply a means of doing so as a member of the Australian geocaching community. Other organisations I belong to dangle a bucket from time to time. We donate as a member of the organisation irrespective of a personal donation made.

Lt. Sniper · Post by **Lt. Sniper** » 06 January 05 6:02 pm

Oh, I cant even go and throw petrol on the flames on the GC.com forums...

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Mind Socket · Post by **Mind Socket** » 06 January 05 6:04 pm

Keep hitting refresh, sometimes that throws petrol on their server, other times, it actually works.

- Rog