Encouraging responsible metal detecting

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venicone V
venicone Aug 1, 2005 16:14:26
Replying to FourWinds

quote "If the MD community as a whole isn't prepared to self-police then an outside 'authority' should do it for them. No community wants that to happen, so why the seeming lack of action from within? That does look like they're all 'up to no good' even if they aren't."

How would you suggest I as a "mere" female "self-policed" the md community - and even if I knew someone was not recording their over 300 year old finds how would you suggest I "made them" do this?

What action would you like to see the responsible detecting community who already record their finds with PAS take to resolve this issue?

Does it make me look as if Im up to no good if I am unable to persuade others to record?

Why do you think that none of the recording community are trying to "convert" non recorders into recorders?

Take a look at this :

http://www.ourpasthistory.com/md/indexa.htm

Then tell me what else you think I should do to convert all the non recorders.
If only life was that simple :)

Corinne

F FourWinds
FourWinds Aug 1, 2005 18:11:30
Replying to venicone

>> What action would you like to see the responsible detecting community who already record their finds with
>> PAS take to resolve this issue?

I would like to think that there'd be a confidential phoneline you could ring and report abuses. I can understand your predicament, but there is action you can take. If someone's breaking the law then there are people employed to deal with that kind of behaviour, but they can't do their job if no one reports the crime. If someone knows of another person's crime and doesn't report it then they are probably an accessory to that crime.

If no crime has been commited then all that the community can do is try to educate them, maybe even expose their poor practice and shun them. I do realise that shunning someone can simply drive them more underground and make their actions harder to monitor.

It is a tough situation that has no easy answers, but I'll use a friend's little phrase - <i>If not You, Who? If not Now, When?</i>

N nigelswift
nigelswift Aug 1, 2005 18:17:21
Replying to venicone

Co, firstly you aren't a "mere female". Don't sell yourself short. ;)

Second, your site is exemplary, but is an oasis. All those people, yet who else has a site that sets the standards that you recommend? Not even PAS, by a long chalk, they're frit!

You've done your bit, more than. What about everyone else in the hobby and the govt. department that's set up to liaise with it?