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Moe the Sleaze · Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2004 8:45 am Post subject:

I do skim the gc.com boards but have no idea to what fsu*noles was referring.
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fsu*noles · Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2004 10:30 am Post subject:

Howdy folks, not trying to stir up the pot or anything, honest!

First off, Thanks to Silent Bob for grabbing the Ohio-bound TB and helping to move it along - even though it's not my bug, I did become attached to it hauling it around Belgium/Rome/London and it's nice to know it's in good hands!

As for the rest, don't worry 'bout it. There was a short thread on GC.com that started as a "congrats" for Centris finding 1,000 bugs. It turned into a bashing session instead, and when I threw in my .02 in her defense, there were a couple of additional posts that talked about cachers "in that area".

A couple of people were complaining about their bugs not moving, just being "shown around", with one person saying their bug has been stuck here for 4 months. Another poster mentioned MNGCA by name, and said that the whole group of cachers in that group had high bug counts inflated by showing them around to other memebers.

Now that I'm talking about it, I'll go dig the thread up - my comment really wasn't meant to cause any kind of trouble, I didn't know y'all didn't read the boards over there. I'm new here, and it just surprised me to see anything negative 'bout this group, 'tis all. OK, found it, fwiw, here's the thread:

http://forums.groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=63178

s4xton · Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2004 10:50 am Post subject:

Thanks for the url, fsu*noles. I wouldn't exactly say that the MNGCA's reputiation needs to be "salvaged" and I'm not thinking it took a "beating" either.

A conversation over breakfast last weekend summed it up pretty well I think, talking about how open and exposed geocaching is: people will do whatever they want. If someone goes around and muggles caches, there's not much you can do about it. "It's all part of the game," someone added. If someone wants to not take a long hike in the woods and take shortcuts and find alternative enterances to find more caches in a day, there's not much you can do about it. Same thing with people that want to place as many caches as possible and people that want to log as many bugs as possible... "To each their own," as the saying goes... and that's one of the neato things of geocaching right now.

Some people, including some MNGCA members that read these forums refuse to log a bug unless they move it. I personally only log bugs that I've seen, reguardless if I've moved the or not... and other people will log a bug simply if they find the number for it posted, or were given the number by someone else.

I even know someone that logged two finds on a multi cache... one for the first part and another find the next day for the optional portion of it. I don't agree with it, but that's what they thought made sense to them, and that's 100% fine with me.

So it's whatever people want to do and how people reguard their own personal statistics and what it means to them, I guess.

...and either way, if Centris logged 1000 bugs and found less than 400 caches, that's still a large acomplishment, reguardless of what somoene thinks should and should not be counted.

In the end, I don't think we have any problem with our reputation here... just a couple people in the boards not agreeing with the way some people "bug" up here.

-Aaron

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Centris · Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2004 12:05 pm Post subject:

JT · Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2004 12:38 pm Post subject: But you can win with this bunch

Centris

s4xton

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Centris

Lyverbird · Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2004 5:53 pm Post subject:

Can you give us link to this forum and / or Irish's rule on bugs must be moved. Also, dare I say it.... who died and made him rule maker?

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