TerraTalk
Posted on: 10/12/2016
by: dexter
Out and About
There is now an active group of a half dozen Terracachers in SE Mass with another half dozen occasional participants. We been having a few get togethers and cleanups as we keep the hunt alive and resist the tide of Geo P&Gs washing over us.
It would be nice to see some of the deadwood caches removed from the cache map as we add new ones to it. I'd be happy to help out and have repeatedly suggested candidates for Archiving. Speaking of beating a dead horse, whatever happened to the 2015 Cache Care Contest...?
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cash108 Durango 10/23/2016
I love the picture, thank you for sharing. Yes, I agree we need to start to archive the bad caches. I posted on your other posting hoping that the thread will allow a detailed process (at least to start with) on how to handle the old caches that have been neglected.
I apologize for the 2015 Cache Care Day Contest not being posted. We have changed our programmers and I will need to update these results by hand. I have a job this week (helps pay for the site) but just as soon as I get back, I will manually update this contest and publish the winners. Also because I have been so tardy at this, I am going to throw in a bonus surprise for each area of that participated.
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dexter Plymouth 12/29/2016
I ran a simulation of the Cache Care Days contest with my family this week. We gave the contest a 359 day head start. Instead of placing, finding and fixing caches to enter the contest (which took weeks) we each just brought a present. Instead of making a list of our names and putting them in a hat (which takes minutes) we counted the presents and put that many numbers in a hat. Instead of picking out a half dozen names from the hat (which takes a year so far) we picked numbers instead and then took turns picking whatever present we wanted, opened or unopened, and then stole or traded them back and forth until the last was chosen. Whole thing took half an hour and a was a lot of laughs. We call our contest Yankee Swap. Nobody cares about the gifts, it's the getting together and playing that matters.
As for archiving the dead caches: it's the same story. It's doesn't take a programmer and 18 months to decide that a cache placed by someone who hasn't been on the site for years has been abandoned. I'm sure they are at least a half a dozen members of the community that would be willing to help this listing service delist inactive caches. What are we waiting for?
dexter
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