Loran Wilcox wrote:

>When I wrote my reply it wasn't to anyone in particular.  It just get
>bothered by the attitude towards the numbers. The numbers mean nothing
>except personal accomplishment. They are up to the individual to use them or
>not however they feel.
>  
>
With all the stats we provide, I don't think I have ever seen anyone 
mention how they are doing when compared to all the other geocachers in 
the same time period that they have been caching, which is the most fare 
comparison.  There is a lot of talk about catching so and so, but when 
you compare the date, there is no real compition with some of the 
origional cachers that have a zillion caches to their name... some of 
the new people are finding the caches at twice the rate of the origional 
cachers.

Also with all the talk about I'm in this for the fun and I don't pay 
attention to the numbers there hasn't been a single person offer to race 
someone of a set period of time.  All you would need to do is put in the 
two or more team and the date span into the team stats page and you 
could clearly see who the "winner" was.  As long as all parties are in 
agreement that they are in a friendly compition, I really can't see the 
harm in it.

Anyway... just a couple of thoughts that I've had over the last couple 
of days... and since I never did write that geocaching game interface 
that I said I would a year or more ago......

Brian Cluff
Team Snaptek