Checker tags - automatic deletion?

Question

I recieved this message:

New 2015-07-03 02:30:04 Project-GC said:

The following tags has been disabled because they seem to reference geocaches that does not look like challenge caches. According to official guidelines a challenge cache must contain the word challenge and be listed as a Mystery/Puzzle geocache type.

1. Challenge geocaches must contain the word "challenge" in the geocache name.
2. Challenge geocaches are listed as the Mystery/Puzzle geocache type.

• 15542
• 15544

Is this an automatic process? Because the caches are definately challenge caches, even though the word "challenge" was missing. (they both had "challenging" instead). If I re-enable them will they just get disabled again?

I could try talking to the owner about changing his cache names...

 

Tom

Comments

If they are from after 2010 (if i remeber correctly) they are incorrect because challenge is required to be in the name. Technically they are a myst with Traditional logging requirements and that is not allowed and can be ignored. You are allowed to log them as find if you have signed the log. But i would not do that because that would not be very popular.
I suspect they will be autodisabled. I suggest to ask the owner to change the name to follow the listing requirement. (That is if they are newer than that rule else the name is ok)

Answer 1

Yes, this is an automatic process which runs once per day. We have a handful of exception and I will add these to the exception list. It should not happen again.