[Az-Geocaching] Geocaching admin archives the plaque

[GUY ALDRICH]

--- ShadowAce <hunting@shakabruddah.com> wrote:
> I see a difference of opinion here..
> 
> Yes it did get done, how long after it went missing?
> 
> Now if it disappeared or got damaged tomorrow, how
> long would it take to
> replace?
> 
> I do not believe this was done to spite anyone even
> though the cache owner
> accuses the admin of this in open public forum.
> Again, difference of
> opinion, it could well have been done via email to
> the geocaching.com
> address and done with admins on levels that the
> caching community would not
> have known. If you want to bring this up as an
> attack, then keep in mind
> this same cacher made at least a few caches I know
> of with no log sheet.
> When told the caches needed log sheets they logged
> into the site and said it
> had one and should not have been touched by admins.
> I had done one of the
> caches that had no logsheet and the owner put a log
> there but in his
> statement online he said it already had one.. So why
> would this person have
> to make a statement that was incorrect to this
> nature?
> 
> I think this is between 360 and the admins. I dont
> see how admin did
> anything wrong, but then again, I seem to agree with
> the minority that we
> have a good approver who does everything they can to
> make this a good game
> and to keep things as close to the letter if not the
> spirit of the rules as
> possible.
> 
> Then again, maybe I am rambling and CO Admin is out
> to destroy geocaching as
> others from the Phoenix area have said.
> 
> 
> 
>  -----Original Message-----
> From: az-geocaching-admin@listserv.azgeocaching.com
>
[mailto:az-geocaching-admin@listserv.azgeocaching.com]On
> Behalf Of Gale
> Sent: Saturday, June 26, 2004 11:43 PM
> To: listserv@azgeocaching.com
> Subject: RE: [Az-Geocaching] Geocaching admin
> archives the plaque
> 
> 
> The maintanence was done, and it got archived
> anyway.
> 
> from the log:
> 
> "Thanks to Team 360 sending it to me, a new
> mini-cache "Altoids"
> container with log sheet has been placed at the
> Tribute Plaque. I hope this
> one lasts longer. "
> 
> 
> 
> ShadowAce <hunting@shakabruddah.com> wrote:
>   I dont think it was too harsh at all. I have found
> many a great headstone
> or historical location that I wanted to make a
> virtual because I knew I
> could not drive there in a reasonable time to
> replace a logbook. Many
> cachers created a boatload of virtuals and after the
> sign has been missing
> for months they still dont do anything for the cache
> because it is _only a
> virtual_ and they have no intention of checking it.
> 
>   I personally found a virtual the other day and had
> the owner tell me my
> answer was wrong. I quoted the plaque and they went
> to look at it and low
> and behold I was correct and the cache owner was
> incorrect.. Is this and
> issue? Depends..
> 
>    If the cache owner lived 200 miles away, I doubt
> they would have diven to
> the site and confirmed my answer..
> 
>   Virtuals have a great place, but as I have been
> told by admins and agree,
> if you cannot maintain a logbook in the area, you
> most likely cannot
> maintain a virtual there either.
> 
>   If the cache owner would have done the maint that
> they said they would,
> the cache would not have been archived..
> 
>   The cache can be reactivated when and if the
> problem with the log is
> corrected.
> 
>   if the cache owner does not care enough, then it
> should be archived. I
> have requested many caches to be archived when they
> go 6 months with nofinds
> and no attempt to fix them.
> 
> 
> 
> Tsegi Mike and Desert Viking
> 
> Till a voice, as bad as Conscience, rang
> interminable changes
>   On one everlasting Whisper day and night repeated
> -- so:
> "Something hidden.  Go and find it. Go and look
> behind the Ranges --
>   "Something lost behind the Ranges. Lost and
> waiting for you. Go!"
> 
> Rudyard Kipling ,   The Explorer  1898
> 
> 
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It never should have gotten to the point of being
archived!

Guy


		
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