When Groundspeak started up, they WERE the market. There were no alternatives. When other alternate sites (Navicache & Terracaching...I think those were some names I recall), gc.com was already pretty big, but it was early enough in the game that I think someone could have come forward with a solid marketing plan and a few interesting and useful tweaks and made a site that would have attracted a certain following. The key would have been to be a little quirky, but basically the same, I think. But now, when Groundspeak is monstrously huge (3818 caches within 50 miles of my home coordinates on gc.com -vs- approx. 10 on Opencaching), I don't see where they have a chance. Sheer momentum will carry Groundspeak forward. Most people, myself included, are just too lazy to crosslist our caches, and if you actually LIKE TO CACHE, why would you limit yourself to a site with such a small number of listings when gc.com has thousands? No one would, unless they had a bone to pick with Groundspeak, but that's a case of "cutting off your nose to spite your face" as the old saying goes.
We must transfer our caches to www.opencaching.com, Consider this a myspace
I've had this particular reviewer actually let me know right up front that he breaks his own interpretation of the "guidelines/rules" for some, including his own hides.... and after denying a cache submission, proceeds to publish caches that should be denied for the same reasons he gave for the denial. The man has no integrity in the game, and arrogantly flaunts his "power" as a reviewer to do as he wishes. Meanwhile hundreds of old caches with deceased/absentee owners live on, hundreds if not thousands of caches break the "rules/guidelines"... and if you try to resolve an issue openly in the forums,,, he WILL take it personal and adjust the guidelines to archive your caches, and make publishing new ones next to impossible. In otherwords, hail the almighty Cachedrone, and bow before him, or he will make the game much less enjoyable for you. He has diminished my enjoyment of the game, and what pisses me of the most, Groundspeak doesn't give a crap that Ontario has it this Cache Nazi as a reviewer.
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