[GeoStL] Re: upside down and no finds.
- From: "Dru C Reeves" <drur@xxxxxxx>
- To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 19:32:23 -0600
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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.
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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
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