YIKES!! Let the beating begin... You need to immediately remove any bookmarks, history, & cookies from your computer regarding any and all of the statistics pages. Then cross your fingers, hope to die, & stick a needle in your eye if you ever feel like visiting the web sites again. I thnk that I speak for others when I say "CHILL OUT". The stats are just for fun. I feel Snaptek has done a GREAT job with the web page and sincerely hope that it will continue to improve. ----For the record----- karma SYLLABICATION: kar·ma PRONUNCIATION: kärm NOUN: 1. Hinduism & Buddhism The total effect of a person's actions and conduct during the successive phases of the person's existence, regarded as determining the person's destiny. 2. Fate; destiny. 3. Informal A distinctive aura, atmosphere, or feeling: There's bad karma around the house today. ------------------------- Cache on, Team CBX2 (Cody) -----Original Message----- From: Teri Hall [ mailto:miltarycat@hotmail.com ] Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 10:47 AM To: az-geocaching@listserv.snaptek.com Subject: [Az-Geocaching] A comment on statistics Ok, this is a tough post for me to add, but I need to get it off my back. I know I will probably be the only one who agrees with my thoughts, but there is always one black sheep in the group right? I for one DO NOT like the new statistics. I had the most fun Geocaching from the beginning of July (when we found out about Geocaching) through the beginning of September (before the stats showed up). Geocaching has been around since mid 2000. I had no problem with starting out knowing I had only X number of caches. I didn't even give a (fill in word) that people like Bob Renner etc. had numerous more caches than we did - since he has been geocaching from the beginning and we had just started. There wasn't a problem until September with people complaining about others finding their own cache, finding a cache more than once, etc. Nobody cared until September 4th. Now it is a big competition (maybe not for the females, but statistically in Sociology, men are BIG on competition). Who has the best difficulty/terrain number? (not fair to those who are handicapped or who are not mobile enough to hit 4's and 5's). Who has hidden the most caches (gee, I don't have a job as I was laid off, but to be competitive with team X, I had better go hide 15 caches to keep up). And last but not least, who has the best cache karma? (Do you even know what Karma is? Is it even a part of your religion?) Like I said, I will probably be beat down for this, verbally attacked, or just shunned by the popular, but I don't care. I do not like the statistics at all. We can all come up with our own statistics gathering if that is what we are concerned with, or just find caches and have fun. Geocaching was much more fun before statistics. :::Stepping off soapbox::: Teri Team TJ _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp _______________________________________________ Az-Geocaching mailing list Az-Geocaching@listserv.snaptek.com http://listserv.snaptek.com/mailman/listinfo/az-geocaching