The Race for GeoCaching Garmin and the other guy.
I believe they were arrogant enough to think that just because they do own the #1 GPS brand, they'd be a shoe-in for also becoming the #1 rated cache site.
Problem was, it was done with no thought...
- They swiped a name used by another.
- Their "peer review" still isn't working (there's a thread devoted to how screwed up it is).
- Over 90% of their hides are still crosslisted, even after goals to have site-only hides were made. And now, in desperation , another plan to crosslist more takes place.
- By allowing banned GC members to lead their kick-off and allow them to express their feelings in their forums, they lost all credibility as an "open" site right from the get-go. It's simply a "I hate Groundspeak" site.
- Any time something is discussed in the forums, it's compared to GC.com. Mods allow it.
Can't have a unique site if everyone compares everything discussed to another. Again showing a disgruntled GC member site.
People who whine on GC forums, "Why can't you bring back virtuals, web cams, etc" and after explained why, still carry the whining into two more pages usually fit with this group.
- And last, without any formed structure at all, no goals to stay on track, winging it, the idea strayed. A little too late to catch up now.
In desperation, the company even decided to have their own site info imbedded in the units. Nobody used it.
Now a new format is being used, not compatible with the standard used by other manufacturers and their competing cache site, in an attempt to win folks over and instead (I believe) it'll turn more away.
It's about time someone in that Company gets their head outta their can and realizes that while it's true that in GPS brands, they're the 800 lb gorilla, but in cache sites, the King of the jungle is Groundspeak. We wish someone can pop this zit.
Cachedrone the reviewer at Groundspeak Geocaching.com is a complete asshole.... he once said to my face (re: a cache hide he refused to publish), "how bad do you want it?". He WILL NOT publish anything I submit, and uses the guidelines to shut me down every time. Since when is a cache a few hundred km from home a vacation cache?? Yet he publishes other caches daily that break guidelines blatantly. He has admitted to my face, that he has publishes caches that he shouldn't all the time. It has pissed me off so much, I have given up and no longer cache after many years of enjoying the game. This "holier than thou", two-faced, piece of shit prick needs to disappear from this game.
ReplyDeleteGroundspeak Geocaching.com must remove the reviewer (Cachedrone), he is a distructive to the hobby (rude to my children), . they should have new reviewer every year. i am going to quit my premium membership! because of this reviewer.
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