Wow, I have GOOD Karma, then! ~~trisha ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Cluff" To: "AZ-Geocaching" Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 5:13 PM Subject: Re: [Az-Geocaching] Congratulations... > > But, I feel kinda bad that I'll get to the '100' mark before placing > > my own cache... This is very bad for my Cache-Karma. I'll probably be > > opening my 100th, and the top of the ammo container will slam shut on > > my finger, severing it, forcing me to rename myself, 'n4/c-1'... > > > > Hmm. I'd better place one soon.. (said while noticing dark clouds > > swirling above).. :) > > Just in case you haven't figured it out (it's fairly obvious), the cache > karma is just a 1:20 ratio, so you would have to hide 4 to break even. > The first 20 are a given, since you can't really expect someone to hide a > cache right away just to get a positive karma. > > Ive been thinking about have a user setable karma so that you can quickly > see if you are living up to your own standards, and not just ours , but I > have no way of telling if a team is really who they say they are, so there > probably won't be anything like that anytime soon, since I would have to > do something like ask for your geocaching.com password then then check to > see if it successfully logs you in, but then I would end up with everyones > password that chooses to participate and thats information I don't want. > I really wouldn't want the possibility of any fingers pointed at Team > Snaptek if anything ever get screwed up on the official site. I suppose > that I could make a cache on the official site and have some sort of > unique code key that you could put into a found entry, and so all teams > that get an account on the snaptek site and have the correct code key put > in will be properly authenticated.... that might be cool! > > > Brian Cluff > Team Snaptek > > _______________________________________________ > Az-Geocaching mailing list > Az-Geocaching@listserv.snaptek.com > http://listserv.snaptek.com/mailman/listinfo/az-geocaching >