Re: [Az-Geocaching] Congratulations...

Wow, I have GOOD Karma, then!
~~trisha

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Cluff" <brian@snaptek.com>
To: "AZ-Geocaching" <az-geocaching@listserv.snaptek.com>
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
>
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