I feel we may have found a new antagonist in Josh Cornell. Kinda like that French guy in Indiana Jones.

Honestly I will be a bit concerned after two weeks or more I sent my post without getting approved

LarkspurJuly7

Honestly I will be a bit concerned after two weeks or more I sent my post without getting approved

My life is crazy busy all the time, so honestly I didn’t think much about the delay. It’s okay by me, especially when the mods/admins are volunteers and the forum is free to use.

Somebody here once went rogue and dug a big hole by the gazebo in JPJ Park in Brooklyn. Not cool. When Fox and I did it, the grounds people actually gave us a shovel!

That is the purpose…there is no need to ruin the hunt for everyone….please get permissions before you dig.

boogieman

Somebody here once went rogue and dug a big hole by the gazebo in JPJ Park in Brooklyn. Not cool. When Fox and I did it, the grounds people actually gave us a shovel!

Somebody ought to put a really good “solution” on the board, and then immediately go bury a box with a “&^%$ YOU!” note on the inside at the dig spot. Just for lulz.

Does anyone know why most posts from newcomers to this forum are no longer being approved?
Since early November, I’ve had several new people contact me through the wiki to tell me about the work they’ve been doing on
The Secret
. Many of them say that they’ve joined Q4T and have tried to post messages here, but that their messages have not been approved by the moderator. The posts from one newcomer – LarkspurJuly7 – went through a few days ago, but older posts from December still haven’t shown up.
Any ideas? Is the administrator just trying to wind things down? I think new users bring new insights and new energy to the search, so I’m surprised we’re not doing more to welcome them.

Because we are the self-anointed purveyors of how all of this is intended to work?
Good guys wear white hats. We will definitely get permission to dig out once we are confident we are twelve paces from the west side, but I don’t get the indignity that happens when ambitious people with the gleam of treasure in their eye act upon their equally self-anointed confidence that they can take a quick stroll and pick up a cask.

Merlot Brougham

Because we are the self-anointed purveyors of how all of this is intended to work?

not permission from the board /us , permission from the people who maintain/ own the property. so that it doesn’t get ruined for everybody
of course that means when you get a “no” respecting that answer.

I just want to clarify that I was never advocating for any amok running, destruction of private property, or even poking around on private property without permission for that matter.
I should have maybe expanded my point a little more because it was a comment on the entire tone of the message, really. I mean, I don’t remember signing the petition that said I expect newcomers to read and digest thousands of pages of threads and material like I have before they’re worthy of chiming in. Does some of the re-treading get a little old? Certainly, but at least it’s people interested in solving the puzzle. I haven’t had a Q4T account nearly as long as some of the veterans, so maybe that’s out of line to say, and if the consensus is that the OP speaks for everyone here, I’ll concede my point.
Not sure what the huge deal is if the worst that happens is that we see pictures like this a little more frequently in the image 10 thread.

I recognized the point of the OP as one of economics and pain management. It literally hurts our eyes to read over the same concerns over and over again. With the prediction that boatloads of new eyes will be landing at this forum, the impending threat of an exponential rise in redundancy may drown out some of the “progress” that may be happening.
There’s always going to be limitations to how we organize information. “Search is your friend” -RTFM.

Yeah, I don’t think the sentiment was “stay on topic” as much as “know what the heck your talking about.” It’s not that we don’t appreciate new ideas, it’s just like Erexere said…

Unknown

Unknown:
Because we are the self-anointed purveyors of how all of this is intended to work?

No one is saying that potential diggers need “our” permission before they put shovel to dirt. But as a practical matter, getting permission from the proper authorities seems like the prudent thing to do. If for no other reason than to have the time, tools, and confidence to do the job thoroughly and well. Because after 30 years, that’s probably what it’s going to take to get the third one out of the ground, gleam-of-treasure notwithstanding.

Unknown

Unknown:
I should have maybe expanded my point a little more because it was a comment on the entire tone of the message, really

So, an observation that the message to potential newcomers to be respectful and play nice was not respectful or nice enough. You gotta love the irony, for real.

I don’t think it ever hurts to have something re-dragged up. Sometimes a new perspective is added. Often not, I’ll admit, but there are definitely things that have been brought up and then come back around to be thought of as possible. I think it’s a good thing that lots of people kept bringing up stuff in Milwaukee for example because I friggin hate those Girl Scout markers as a clue, and a lot of people are sure of them.
I haven’t been at this nearly as long as some, so I guess I’m less tired of it. I will also admit, when I joined this site I read every word of every thread, but it’s been a while since then, I don’t remember it all.

Just so this doesn’t get out of hand or on a tangent it was never meant to be….
Let me clarify… I am no expert, nor am I an administrator on this board, I am an active forum user and have been doing research on this hunt (all 12) for about a year now. I have painstakingly secured all the things necessary to do a proper dig in the city I live in. The Lake Park Friends know me well, The county parks district manager knows me and others on my team, the DNR is familiar with what I am doing, as is the historical society and the local records room in the library. I work with the archaeology department at a local museum. Everyone who could possibly have any concern for what I am doing all know me and trust that I will have proper respect for the properties I search on. Doing this has taken some time and effort, as was coming up with a way to present my venture to the “powers that be” without making me or anyone on my team sound like a rogue weirdo.
This post was meant for 2 reasons.
1 if you read through all of the forums, it’s basically like part 2 of the book. You can see all the work that has been done by others, as well as get an idea of each of our methods. This will allow you to either bond with those who you feel think like you do, or at least pose new ideas (either on things that were not investigated thorough enough in the past, or new uncovered thoughts you come up with yourself). Also reading the forums you will learn about things like the police showing up in Boston on 421, or what the park service at one place or another had to say about digging…or learning that some private properties have been approached in the past and refused to help etc…
2. To let those people who are just reading forums and using others solutions to go rogue and dig up a casque that behavior like that will eventually result in a lockdown on most of the area’s these casques might be residing. First there will be signs, then fines, then arrests…soon digging will be a thing of the past. I think everyone want’s to see them come out of the ground. There are plenty of people on here that are willing to do the hard part of getting permission, or may already have it. If you have a solution and have read all the forums, you’ll already know who to contact to work with on an extraction.
I have been getting reports of holes being dug here where I live and not filled back in properly or not at all, so now I am down to patrolling areas myself because if I tell authorities “that’s not me digging holes” then they could easily say that now it’s a problem and all digging requests are going to be denied. There is already a large influx of users to this specific part of Q4T, and it’s going to increase exponentially. I am just trying to make an effort to curtail any disrespectful behavior in the field, and try to guide new users to a more exciting time on the board. It’s really fun to read the old forums, it’s better than a reality show sometimes.
All of us have differences of opinion on ideas and solutions, but most of us are untied on a general respect for the hunt so I hope the newcomers will do some reading, and I hope all of use seasoned users can help guide the newcomers to respect the hunt.

I was wondering when I couldn’t see my posts after a week. I don’t know who is the moderator here but I hope they stay punctual…

Oregonian

Any ideas? Is the administrator just trying to wind things down? I think new users bring new insights and new energy to the search, so I’m surprised we’re not doing more to welcome them.

Dang! your’e right! its almost getting as unfriendly as over on the wiki!

Oregonian

but older posts from December still haven’t shown up.

I joined q4t in early January…just for clarification

JoshCornell

at mods can you please stop me from completing puzzles. I’m such a detriment to the community by actually completing things.
you guys don’t want these solved. you guys don’t want these found. unless youre doing it yourself.
f**k you guys.
you are clearly just mad that I have succeeded where you have failed.
and that is NOT fair.
my solves are brilliant. Preiss is brilliant.
you are just a troll seabass.

Josh. You failed at the Houston solve. So you are 0 for 1 in my book. YOU ARE WRONG ABOUT HOUSTON.as you failed to explain all the clues in full

I’m a brand-new user. I put up my first post on December 19th 2014, and it was only approved this week. This is okay with me, just gave me more time to contemplate puzzles..

As of late there has been an exponential amount of traffic pertaining to “The Secret.”
First off, welcome to the hunt. Here are some helpful hints to start you on your way here on “The Secret” thread.
Please take the time to read the entire forum on a city before commenting. Many of your questions, idea’s, theories, and so on may have been addressed long ago, and several times. All of the people active on the forums have taken time to research theories, post solutions, and repost solutions based on debate. Most people here are tolerant of others, but as with anything, newcomers are expected to read the whole back story first.
All of us here would like to see these casque’s unearthed. Many people who are active in searching and digging have been granted, or are in the process of obtaining permission to dig. Please don’t decide to go rogue and dig a big hole in the park or city somewhere and just leave it. This will make it harder for us to extract these casques and could cause them to be irretrievable if the authorities get angry enough about people digging up the parks.
Everyone on here has their own unique personalities and theories about the puzzles…try to be positive and keep the debates away from ad-homonym attacks.
Best of luck and welcome.

I can’t stress how much doing a little reading will pay off greatly. People like MF, Willhouse, Forest Blight, Pine, AP, WK, White Rabbit, Siskel and Egbert, 421Thrasher, TJ, Shadowrunner, TenByThirteen, and many others have put in years, some over a decade, of work on this. There is a good chance that the water tight theory you have on exactly where the casque is, has been explored, dug up, and dismissed already….possibly not, but a LOT of ground has been covered (literally) already.
Please read the forums first.

Sorry team. Didn’t mean to cause a fuss. Glad to see Egbert putting this thread to good use to move things along.

I have been trying to post some photos which are on my flickr account, but it does not seem to be working.
I used the Img tag, and the URL tag, but they don’t seem to work either.
Can someone please explain how to post photos? Thanks.

I use
www.imgur.com
, they allow you to post albums and such as well so you can just link us rather than imbed a bunch of photos.

I can do a link to flickr as well, but I wanted to embed the image in my post. How do I do that?

Egbert

I can do a link to flickr as well, but I wanted to embed the image in my post. How do I do that?

Here’s how to do it, step by step:
Go to your photostream in Flickr and click on the image you want to post.
Now you’re on a page that shows the single image on a black background. Go to the lower right corner of the black space and there’s an arrow for “share this photo.” Click on that.
In the pop-up box choose a size somewhere around 400 by 600. I wouldn’t go over 1,000 pixels in any direction.
Still in that pop-up box, choose Code: HTML and then choose the HTML radio button at the bottom.
Now the code in that box should be pre-selected for you. Copy it and then come over to this forum.
When you’re ready to insert your image, click on “Img” at the top of the message space and then paste your code from Flickr between the two boxes that appear.
Here’s the only tricky part in the whole thing: Q4T just wants the image address, not the whole link that Flickr wraps around it. So look at what you just posted from Flickr and find where it says img src=”. Take out that part and everything that comes before it. Then find where it says ” width= and take out that part and everything that comes after it. (Remember to take out the quotation marks after src= and before width=.)If you’ve done it all correctly, you should be left with two Q4T formatting boxes that say “img” and an address between them that starts with
https://farm
and ends with .jpg (without any quotation marks in the whole thing).
I know, it sounds like a hassle. But it’s actually pretty fast. And remember that you can always use “preview” on this page to see if your image is showing up correctly.

Egbert

I have been trying to post some photos which are on my flickr account, but it does not seem to be working.
I used the Img tag, and the URL tag, but they don’t seem to work either.
Can someone please explain how to post photos? Thanks.

OK, so, say you want to post up this Flickr image…
https://www.flickr.com/photos/8079704@N … 9294915521
Click the “Share” button abd choose “BBCode”, choose the size you want (eg 320×240), then extract the path to the JPG…
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7184/686 … f242_n.jpg
…finally, frame it with “img” and “/img” in square brackets…

Thanks guys!

Egbert

Thanks guys!

Are you getting ready to post a picture of anything in particular… say, something ceramic?

This topic is just an effort to try and unify people on being respectful towards the hunt, and to urge people to read the entire forum on the image/verse they are interested in, that’s all. This should be fun, and we should all try to stay positive in our debates. Everyone has different ideas, but hopefully discussing ALL the options and coming up with a logical place to dig with permission…instead of just digging a hole somewhere and leaving it, is the best option for extracting these.

ive gave you guys more than enough already lol
YES you did I hope this means you are going to stop