>>319036>>319034Geocaching's popularity has become unfortunate to a degree. Not because it loses its luster by becoming mainstream, but because of some unintended side-effects.
The first is people intentionally destroying caches. Now, I've yet to see this done and I've been caching for several years. It is definitely still a rarity. The one's that are easy to damage are generally easy to replace, so that's a positive side of that. Most people aren't determined enough to try to take out any of the hard to find or get to caches, and I'm still more concerned about some bad weather taking down caches than anything else. Still, with cellphones being able to hunt down caches (I use my phone about as much as I do my GPS) who knows.
I hope hooligans don't become motivated enough to go after caches a lot. There's a lot easier ways to be a asshole, so hopefully they stick with that.
Another problem is the placement of horrible unoriginal and stupidly easy caches that take up valuable real estate. I've found locations that would be great for a cache only to find that there's a shitty cache right where a great cache could be. Now, I've found that it's mostly older people who have been caching for years who place all of this rubbish but I've seen some new cachers do it to.
I dunno, I feel like geocaching (or at least that site) will become crummy in another few years. Or hopefully the fad (if there is one, I feel like there's a bit) will die away and it will recover.
