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[bflentje]

SB's way or the highway. oops, more off topic chatter.

[spinowner]

Groundspeak can archive a cache if the owner does not abide by their guidelines. I just guessed that the same could be done for a TB. Anybody know?

[Posen]

I guess I am not seeing this clearly...and perhaps the problem is that I just don't care about the numbers...for if someone logged one of my travel bugs and didn't move it, I wouldn't care, as I'm not competing to have more TB moves than anyone else. If I was, I'd be all over squashing anyone using the GC.Com option of discovering a bug, since they are clearly called travel bugs.

But I would only delete their entry, or a log entry, if I was worried about numbers. I really am not.

...so if you all want to go on any of my cache sites and log a find without going out in the field, I really am okay with it. I don't have the time to check each computer log entry with each cache log page in the field. I started playing this 'cause it was fun, and we played together...not "Me" against "him."

Why can't we just grow up and hide toys in Tupperware like grown-ups?!?!

(FYI...while you can simply log any of my caches...some of them are kinda fun to find, and you may be missing out...)

[mrmnmikey]

[Surfer Joe]

[Posen]

"The responsibility of your listing includes quality control of posts to the cache page. Delete any logs that appear to be bogus, counterfeit, off topic, or not within the stated requirements."


true, but "appear bogus" is not as easy to prove...and travel bug discoveries hardly falls under appears bogus....


It really falls under "you aren't playing the way I want you to play" which, right or wrong, is not a game I would enjoy, since everyone plays differently and how do I know who wants their TBs moved but NOT discovered and who wants them Discovered or moved?

What could possibly be my motive for denying a person's "Discovery" unless I really didn't want them to boost their TB numbers? (like the trophies for that are so huge).

I could justify deleting off-topic logs or ones that give away a hide, but the TB screen allows people to log Discoveries....

To find a different "what-if?" ...what if I deleted every log that was a DNF...wouldn't go against anyones numbers...so what would be the harm? 'cept for the people that never would have tried for it if they knew the last 20 people DNF'd the hide..."No DNFs, my hides are awesome."

So while there's no rule for deleting Discoveries, it would seem that discoveries are well within the rules.

I know...someone once said "wake me up when they are called discovery bugs..."

Well then someone wake me up when it's called GeoDNFing 'cause that's what I do more often than not...and while I'm ranting, someone wake me up when it's called geo-not-cacheing for all the micro hides that cannot hold trinkets or something that's cached for the next finder...



but again...we all play it differently...some are perhaps more about the competition of the numbers...if that's all they care about I have a big number one for them right here!

(fuming) I have half a mind to not put body parts out in the woods anymore...

[bflentje]

This topic is really becoming a yawner for me. gc.com allows it. Who the heck cares?? At one time I thought I had the same position as SB but I never could explain why. I have since taken "what do I care" attitude about discovers. I've got other more important things to worry about.

[Kitch]

I wonder if SB deletes DNF's on his caches...

[Pear Head]

That's enough of the personal attacks.

Let's keep this on topic please.

[Posen]

Back on topic:
It certainly is nice that they post on the page that "Discoveries will be deleted" so you aren't blind-sided by the deletion. It's not how I play, but seems like a good way for people who play with modified rules to let those rules be know up front. (like having your TB Goal attached to the TB...very helpful)

[King Boreas]

I like the part about cache owners or TB owners can (and should) delete logs. That could be interesting.

[NYSandy23]

One of the coins at the Cup of Joe event this weekend that was out for folks to look at, was classified by its owner as non-discoverable. He/she is busy deleting everyone's discover logs.

I guess that each person may choose to play the game any way they wish within the "rules", but it strikes me as a bit self defeating. If you don't want people to see your coins and perhaps follow them, then why release them? Keep them in a display in your home and allow access to only those you let into your house. If between caches they are shared in a bulk event before returning to a cache, what's the harm? And if you like to live vacariously by following someone's coins or TB's on its travels, again, what's the harm?

Seems people all "play" the game differently and some are less then tolerant of others who "play" differently then they do. Time to return to the sandbox and learn to play again.
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If you're successful in what you do over a period of time, you'll start approaching records, but that's not what you're playing for. You're playing to challenge and be challenged.--Lou Brock

[Pear Head]

To me, travel bugs (which includes coins) are meant to travel. By "discovering" the coin, it's not travel ling, but is sitting still. This is why I don't discover things myself - I either take them and move them or leave them where they are.

I can see the owner's point. I'm not sure I would take it to that extent, but I do see the point.
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Hmm...

[sir_zman]

I wonder what the general feeling would be if someone created a cache, and wrote on the cache page "only people whos caching name starts with the letter "F" can log a find, all others will be deleted". Would that be tolerated? Just because you own the cache/coin/TB doesn't mean you can change the rules set forth by GS on who can and how to log it.

[Pear Head]