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Jonas

With the recent announcement from Geocaching.com that additional logging requirements are no longer allowed some criticism were directed at how Geocaching.com runs the game.

I started to think about what I would change at Geocaching.com if I had the ability to but quickly realized that I would not change very much about the rules. I would probably allow new Virtuals and Webcams and allow more advanced searches/pocket queries and open up the database for more automated downloads/syncs but that's about it.

If you ran Geocaching.com what changes would you do?

-Jonas

Jam3s · Geocacher Joined: 26 Oct 2008 Posts: 842

I have to agree with everything above... can we vote you in for the new CEO of Groundspeak?
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Jonas · Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 11:57 pm Post subject:

It sounds like you would like to change Geocaching.com to be democratic. Smile

Or changing GroundSpeak from being a privately held company to being a member owned co-op.

-Jonas

Jam3s · Geocacher Joined: 26 Oct 2008 Posts: 842

Wouldn't that be nice? Like I have heard before, Groundspeak needs geocachers, geocachers do not need groundspeak. Do they care about what we actually think?
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King Boreas · Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 4:02 am Post subject:

incakola · Geocacher Joined: 28 Mar 2009 Posts: 94

I's not so fond of Groundspeak.

I don't like the idea of a company using personal/member property, a free-to-use gov't technology, and thousand's of peoples time to try to turn a profit.

granted, it's a genius business plan, but groundspeak in my short experience with Geocaching (Including a long email exchange when trying to get an eps file) holds on to geocaching with a tight fist as if they own the sport(or game) as a whole.

To me that's like a company trying to hold and sell rights to public hiking trails.

I do with there was an alternative... I do like the co-op idea.

Bunganator · Geocacher Joined: 09 Apr 2008 Posts: 277

joboo · Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 6:54 am Post subject:

Hmmm...... if anyone out there came up with the Geocaching idea like GS did, the whole website, and etc.... u must b joking if u wouldn't hold on 2 it tightly, and hope it would never grow up, but u let it grow just enough that it doesn't morph in2 something out of control, or in2 something u never saw in ur mind at the start. granted it must grow or it dies, in 1 way or another. some of u long time cachers have seen a lot of changes since u 1st started, and u r still around. from geocaching being a back-alley sport, 2 it becoming something that's out in the open. maybe i'm way off base, but it's their baby 2 do as they see fit. if we don't like it, it's time 2 move on.
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Moe the Sleaze · Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 7:01 am Post subject:

I'd can that jerk, Surfer Joe, and replace him with somebody who has a clue.
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Pear Head · Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 7:13 am Post subject:

loneeagle_24 · Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 7:17 am Post subject:

And what's the deal with him approving and posting them during the week? He should wait until the weekend then those of us FTF hounds could get a jump on everyone else. It's just not fair I tell you.

I'll blame SJ, I guess. Razz

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timewellspent · Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 7:50 am Post subject:

bflentje · Geocacher Joined: 29 May 2006 Posts: 3673

bflentje · Geocacher Joined: 29 May 2006 Posts: 3673

I'd dump Waymarking.com since it isn't nearly as popular. Then I'd reinstate virtuals, webcams and ALRs. You can keep your moving caches though. I'd also highly improve the search mechanism... would make for completing KB challenges much easier.

tesser · Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 8:29 am Post subject:

I wish we could limit by cache hider in the PQ. Yes, it is hard to wade through the KB caches to get to the ones you want. Granted, most people don't need to limit by cache hider. But when you live in the same area as KB and he has all of those pesky challenges...