[GeoStL] Re: Logging multi caches
- From: GC-RGS <gc-rgs@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2003 23:13:05 -0600
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Mike,
You show "wisdom beyond your tender years" or whatever the saying is.
Everyone has already replied so I won't repeat it but it's only a game. If
there are those who don't want to follow the "rules", that's up to them. It
won't hurt the rest of us and we will have the satisfaction of knowing we
did it the right way. Those that make their own rules know they are not
playing fair, but that's their decision and they can live with it. We all
make mistakes and learn things when we're first starting out doing anything,
so we have to be able to take a little constructive criticism and humor and
then we'll feel right at home.
Now about that "Pride and Joy" thing.....
Rich
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Chambers" <michaelc@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2003 8:45 PM
Subject: [GeoStL] Re: Logging multi caches
> -
> Hi Glenn;
>
> I'm one of the new guys. I haven't read anyone else's response to this,
> and probably haven't earned the right to speak yet anyway, but I thought
> I'd jump in on this one.
>
> It seems to me that if a person (or two, or a very few) follows a set of
> coordinates to a cache (or any other sort of final goal), they've earned
> the right to log it in, but it has to be the final goal. In the case of
> a multiple clue, multiple location type cache, the final location is the
> goal, and only finding that earns you the right to log it in. You can't
> log in all the interim clue sites. The number of people in a group can
> start to make things a little murky too. If you walk along, and talk
> pleasantly, but don't make any of the effort to find the cache, how can
> you claim it as a find? If I found myself in a situation like that, I'd
> rather lead or trail the others by 10 min. or so, just to have to earn
> the find myself. I would think those who found it first could have some
> pretty good sport with the ones who they could watch finding it later.
>
> In the case of more than one cache being located at the end of one set
> of coordinates, you've only made one find. Taking credit for making
> multiple finds at a cache like you've described would be cheating. You
> haven't make multiple finds. I look on this in the same way I consider
> a group of people sitting somewhere, passing a Travel Bug around the
> room, just so they could all log in entries for the TB. It violates the
> spirit of the thing, and cheapens it to the point of being valueless.
>
> How could someone feel good about skirting the ethics that have been
> established by others? Do they feel like they are superior - or even
> equal? I certainly wouldn't .
>
> Thought I'd vent. I'll be quite again now.
> Mike Chambers - AKA "Leanman"
>
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