[GeoStL] Re: What Does Your Log say?
- From: "merkin" <merkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 07:55:28 -0600
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My family has placed a few caches, and my 5-year old daughter loves to sit on
my lap once a week and have me read the cache logs. There's nothing worse than
sitting down with her and reading Took Nothing Left Nothing Signed Log. Those
make her sad.
I read Brawny's article on leaving more descriptive logs, and I've tried to do
this, at least on line. Here's an example from a cache I found in Nevada:
March 18 by merkin4 (39 found)
AACCCCKKKK!
Repeat after me.
1. The cache is NOT in that survey cairn at the top of the hill.
2. The cache is NOT on the peak north of that.
3. When the GPS says "98.4 feet" it may mean DOWN.
4. Loose gravel will not hold, repeat WILL NOT hold, an out-of-shape database
programmer from St. Louis.
Other than that, it was a great find. Took nothing (except the yin-yang
relaxation ball I found next to the highway, and I'm going to need it) and left
a carribeaner and a cow magnet. I will never disparage those little Girl Scouts
again. (They probably had the smarts to approach this cache from BELOW, not
ABOVE.) Difficulty was much harder than it had to be.
(Good thing I can laugh about it now, eh? Excellent job.)
merkin4
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Dan Henke <thunder_monk@xxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 19:16:37 -0700 (PDT)
>Nancy,
>
>There are always people tht seem to want to analyze everything and make
>something of it. That is one reason I don't go to the forums often ...the
>other reason is that I forget .
>
>I have signed a log TNLNSL a few times when I was in a hurry or just did not
>have much to say it did not mean that I did not enjoy the cache. I have
>enjoyed every cache I have ever done and I normally try to say something to
>encourage the cache placer in the log. If I take nothing and leave nothing
>from a cache I will include the above as part of my log.
>I would not put too much worry into something like that....some people are
>just in a hurry or that is their normal way of signing the log.
>Check out the recent finds feature of SLAGA and find someone who has found a
>large number of caches and then check out a few to see what they say....most
>of the time it is very similar or identical because they have copied and
>pasted the same message into each log to save time. It doesn't mean they
>didn't enjoy the cache it just means they had a bunch to log and got tired of
>being original with each.
>
>Just my 2 cents worth of course
>
>Dan (Thunder)
>
>TKLNHL <sydstyr@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>I've been reading the forums and there's been a discussion about what finders
>write online.
>
>http://forums.groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=70128
>
>
>There's a strong school of thought that an online entry that reads something
>like this:
>
>"TNLNSL. TFTC"
>(Took nothing, left nothing, signed log. Thanks for the Cache)
>
>is really geo code for
>
>"Your cache sucks"
>
>Is this true?
>
>If you leave logs like this -- is that what you are really thinking?
>How much time do you spend writing in the physical logbook as compared to the
>cyber log?
>As a placer do you get a kick out of reading logs or do you even care?
>
>I'm just curious. I like reading interesting logs -- whether or not they help
>with finding the cache. And naturally, you can imagine, that as the
>log-writer on our little family team, some of "our" logs may.. digress...
>Do those kind of logs "bother" you?
>
>I swiped this post from the forums:
>
>"I"'m surprised no one has stated the obvious. TNLNSL could be considered what
>folks in the quality industry call an indicator.
>-If you never see it in the logs the cache is probably stellar.
>-If you see it in the logs occasionally, either those individuals either
>didn't care for the cache, were tacitern9sp?), or were in a hurry.
>-If most of the logs are TNLNSL it may well be a stinker.
>-If [b]all[/n] the logs are TNLNSL you probably qant to put the cache on your
>ignore list. "
>
>Does this hold true in this area? I think I've seen some TNLN entries on what
>others thought were good caches? Is this a "less is more" area LOL?
>
>Just .. things to discuss...
>
>Nancy
>
>
>
>
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