Talk:Geocashing achievement

This is a proposal made on 2009-06-11. Please leave comments and suggestions below, indicating your thoughts on the proposal, including:

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• Needs work - you think the achievement should be created after more significant changes have been made

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So finding money gets you an award. Stealing money obviously doesn't. Begging, busking, and offering things or services for sale may or may not be legal depending on your jurisdiction. Returning bottles for a deposit was a good suggestion. The name is funny, but the concept doesn't do anything for me in the spirit of geohashing. It's like a great name in search of an achievement.

You know what would make it more interesting? If the cash raised were donated to a charity. Or possibly if the geohasher just found a way to donate cash to charity during the geohash.

This user earned the Geocashing Achievement by raising $42.13 for The Vancouver Food Bank while playing a guitar at the (49, -123) geohash on 2009-05-21.

Also the achievement description needs to specify clearly whether it is necessary to reach the coordinates in order to claim the ribbon. -Robyn 04:40, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

I agree with most of your comments. My original idea was to encourage creative ways to make your expeditions less costly (thus invalidating the argument that oh I would certainly geohash more, if the tickets weren't so expensive). On the other hand, just returning a bottle makes the achievement a bit too easy to achieve. As you noticed, I struggle to turn this into a well-defined achievement worth obtaining.

Donating the cash to a charity is a good idea. I would not discourage to do this after the expedition, but only because I am considering that most of the "charities" I would encounter on the road aren't up to what they promise. I also do not wish to encourage achievements that *require* planning. If you have to prepare yourself with the banking coordinates for your charity of choice before your expedition, that takes a bit off the spontaneity of geohashing. And finally, spontaneously coming up with a way to earn money, *and* having the chance to encounter way to donate to a charity on the way is too much luck.

This definitely needs work before it can be considered as an achievement. -- relet 08:22, 12 June 2009 (UTC)