Does TOP LOGS RECEIVED exclude archived caches?

Question

I've been keeping an eye on top hiders (by logs received) in our county and noticed that 2 of our top hiders actually had their log count go DOWN significantly compared to about three weeks ago.   I know both have archived several caches recently and wonder if this indicates that the project-GC count excludes archived caches or if there is another explanation.

This is for US/California/"San Luis Obispo" county.  Second place (DarkZen) went from a reported log count of 15209 on 12/29/2017 to 15172 today (01/19/2018) -- dropping by 37.   Third place (Evil Cow Pie) went down from 13462 to 13458 during the same 3 week period -- dropping by 4.

I'm not particularly worried about their numbers but more curious what this indicates about how Project-GC calculates these numbers and if the number doesn't indicate total logs received.    Maybe archived caches are excluded?   Or caches that changed ownership?   Something else?

Thanks.   I love Project-GC and am only a little obsessed with it.  :)

Answer 1

No. It lists also archived caches (at least in my case).

It can have several reasons:

• Some caches were adopted, so the logs count decreased
• Some logs were removed (either by owner or by the cacher), for example not fulfilling challenges/earth caches

Simplest way to compare the data is by checking the cachers profile stats. In the tab "hides", you see the same number as "Total finds of my caches:" and even though for example I have some archived caches, the number is the same as in the "top logs received" list.

Comments

Ahhh!   Caches adopted by others,  I bet that's it.  The two cache owners whose counts went down aren't in the county any longer so may be adopting out some  of their existing caches.   I hadn't thought of that.    

I did wonder about removed logs, but since the difference was so great (a net of -37 in 3 weeks), that seemed very unlikely.

Thanks for the info.