This is a slightly new expression of why I've been so open to using sites other than Groundspeak's, where I and so many cachers started. I used to talk about how promoting competition and how that's a good thing. That's true, but not really the whole story. I don't by various brands of other goods, just to promote competition. Some people just won't expand their caching horizons, but I think my main 2 points above a bit more compelling to most cachers.DudleyGrunt wrote:I resent (or resemble) that comment.some other cacher wrote:...the other sites are currently irrelevant.
I like caching for two primary reasons:
1) The people I've met, either in person or online. TC, NC, and OCUS have all allowed me to meet and get to know more great people.
2) The places caching takes me and the things I get to see, that I just wouldn't, otherwise. I also get this from the "alternative" caching sites.
Then, there are the caches themselves. When I first started realizing there were other caching sites and caches that I wasn't even aware of about 18 months after I started caching, I knew I had to check them out.
I now have 2332 GC.com, 133 TerraCaching, 21 OpenCachingUS, and 15 Navicache finds.
What do you think? What do you say when people ask you why you use OCUS, in particularly, or any of "the other" caching sites, in general?
Competition is good. This site is unique though Id like to see more OUCS only caches. The .com site is nothing more than a Frog Clone with Frog Haters.I find the "why did Groundspeak ban you" thread rather amusing.
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