- If you go to a leadership course in the Army, they will instruct you to write no higher than a sixth grade level. No, it is not that we are not smart in the military; it is just a level that almost all adults can follow directions on. Remember your lowest common denominator and a group is only as strong as its weakest link. Dru PS Remember your P's also. Prior Planning Prevents P*** (insert another name for urine) Poor Performance. -----Original Message----- From: geocaching-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:geocaching-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Timothy Hunt Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 6:07 PM To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Timothy Hunt Subject: [GeoStL] upside down and no finds. - Well, I've had a two people log "no-finds" and one person contact me directly for help with this. Discussion with 2 of those 3 has enabled me to understand how what I thought were unambiguous, if obfuscated, directions were actually still ambiguous. I honestly didn't realise that the directions could be interpreted differently from the way I interpreted them. However, no-one until this weekend had done anything to let me know they'd had trouble finding it, since I had altered the directions from what I knew to be ambiguous, to be what I thought to be unambiguous. WIth the recent wet weather, I thought that people hadn't gone looking for this cache. Given my "positive reports of non-finding" rather than simply "no reports of finding", I have realised the issue, and made the directions more direct. And I do mean more direct. So, to those who tried and failed, I apologise that I made it too hard. I'm still new at placing caches, and still trying to balance between making them challenging, and putting a great big neon arrow that says "look here" I must admit, though, I'm surprised that some of the others who reportedly searched and failed to find didn't contact me, especially as it's obvious from the number of caches I've placed and found that I'm still pretty new at this. So, if anyone has any suggestions for making descriptions clear but not so completely obvious that it takes just a minute to find, I'd be grateful. Timothy **************************************************************************** Our WebPage! Http://WWW.GeoStL.com Mail List Info. //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=geocaching Mail List FAQ's: //www.freelists.org/help/questions.html **************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list: send an email to geocaching-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field **************************************************************************** Our WebPage! Http://WWW.GeoStL.com Mail List Info. //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=geocaching Mail List FAQ's: //www.freelists.org/help/questions.html **************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list: send an email to geocaching-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field