Teri:

I appreciate your insights and your courage to voice them. I think my wife would tend to agree with you.  Perhaps the competition is mostly a guy thing.  I do find it interesting that this comment would come from a team that is hot on Wyle E's heels.

I like that stats and appreciate the time Snaptek has put into creating them.  I think they are fun and interesting.  They prompte discussion and help  build the virtual geocaching community in Arizona.

Have fun,
Jerry
Team Cache-Quest
  -----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

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