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Littlestone Jul 9, 2013 16:11:40
Replying to Evergreen Dazed

Evergreen Dazed wrote:
But these 'discussions' are just ridiculous. Honestly. If you think the same 36 page thread, complete with arguments and all sorts of regrettable bullshit, repeated every 3 months on a marginalized forum board is going to communicate the message far and wide you are absolutely wrong.
I disagree entirely (you’d be surprised at who actually does read this forum) and by continuing to raise certain issues attitudes have changed and battles have been won. An example of the latter was the abandonment by English Heritage to place a time capsule in Silbury. There is no doubt in my mind that was achieved by the thread on TMA dealing with the issue (as well as a little help from Lord Avebury :-)

H harestonesdown
harestonesdown Jul 9, 2013 16:19:46
Replying to Littlestone

Littlestone wrote:
Evergreen Dazed wrote:
But these 'discussions' are just ridiculous. Honestly. If you think the same 36 page thread, complete with arguments and all sorts of regrettable bullshit, repeated every 3 months on a marginalized forum board is going to communicate the message far and wide you are absolutely wrong.
I disagree entirely (you’d be surprised at who actually does read this forum) and by continuing to raise certain issues attitudes have changed and battles have been won. An example of the latter was the abandonment by English Heritage to place a time capsule in Silbury. There is no doubt in my mind that was achieved by the thread on TMA dealing with the issue (as well as a little help from Lord Avebury :-)
I no longer climb Silbury, but that didn't come about by peer pressure, just out of respect for a friends feelings on the matter. I don't think banging on about it makes any difference, people will either climb or not, as the next day they'll probably be in a different county, or even country.

I also now tell people i prefer them not to climb, though i wont castigate them if they choose to ignore me, cos as well as being hypocritical on my part it's bugger all to do with me really.

d:)

M Mustard
Mustard Jul 9, 2013 16:44:44
Replying to Littlestone

Littlestone wrote:
I disagree entirely (you’d be surprised at who actually does read this forum) and by continuing to raise certain issues attitudes have changed and battles have been won. An example of the latter was the abandonment by English Heritage to place a time capsule in Silbury. There is no doubt in my mind that was achieved by the thread on TMA dealing with the issue (as well as a little help from Lord Avebury :-)
That's a completely different situation. We're not talking about English Heritage - we're talking about The Masses. Now if people were repeatedly starting threads with the intention of encouraging EH to do something about unrestricted access to Silbury, then that'd be fair enough. I'm pretty sure we had a discussion a while back about how people could be dissuaded from climbing the hill? Maybe revisiting those ideas and discussing them would be more productive than regurgitating the same old arguments about whether it's right or wrong and who climbs it and who doesn't climb it and who used to climb it but doesn't now except on Sundays.

R Rockrich
Rockrich Jul 9, 2013 18:36:58
Replying to Littlestone

Littlestone wrote:
An example of the latter was the abandonment by English Heritage to place a time capsule in Silbury. There is no doubt in my mind that was achieved by the thread on TMA dealing with the issue (as well as a little help from Lord Avebury :-)
It gets more laughable every time you post it.