Anyone have trouble getting your new geocaches approved? I worked hard to put together and hide seven new geocaches and several of them keep getting declined and the back and fourth with the reviewer is sucking the fun right out of this all for me lately. The reviewer claims I need permission from the property owners. For four of my caches locations I have tried explaining in the listing description and reviewer notes that the caches are on old paper roads, pedestrian only paths that have belonged to the public for over 200 years, hence they are not privately owned so no special approval is needed. But the reviewer doesnt seem to believe me, even when I provided a link to an explanation of who exactly owns the paths and why. In one case the reviewer insists a forestry service owns the land, but that is incorrect. These public footpaths run though other properties and the other property owners have no say about it much like a citys regular sidewalk. The remaining caches I have hidden are on Nantucket Land Bank and Conservation Foundation properties. I have asked for permission in both cases and was told sure you can hide your geowhatevers for hikers, we dont need the details. However this reviewer keeps insisting I need more permission than that even though 45 of the geocaches on Nantucket are on properties owned by these two organizations and until I asked the orgs. had no clue. The reviewer even rejected my cache on a litter ridden heavily trafficked path and parking lot at Nobadeer beach, a very popular crowded beach. Its a spot where anyone can bring a cooler, party, horseback ride, go seal watching, etc. yet this reviewer thinks a tiny scroll of paper hidden in an old stone navigational marker could cause controversy! The reviewer insisted I get permission from the TSA since the beach is located at the end of the airports runway! This is Nantucket, our version of airport security is occasionally asking people to leash their dogs and weighing ourselves on the baggage scale so the pilot can determine which side of the 8 seater plane we should each sit on so the weight is equally distributed. Anyone have any advice for dealing with a situation where a reviewer keeps rejecting geocaches due to their misunderstanding the area? I tried giving excess info in the description and notes to help the reviewer approve a cache but that seemed to blow up in my face, when the reviewer picked apart tiny details to misunderstand and reject. So I next tried giving far less info. so there would be less to misunderstand, but that didnt work either.
Posted on: Sat, 08 Nov 2014 11:27:16 +0000
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