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Docs rant thread 11-Jul-2006 At 11:34:03 AM timmy

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>3rd time lucky? ********659 views so far******** ;-)

You've proven my point on this. A scrag fight will always attract far more people than a formal debate.

>We didn't want to talk about censorship but it was forced upon us. We
>wanted to talk about problems
>associated with promoting the wall to non climbers.

Censorship is always forced on somebody, sometimes rightly so, sometimes not. When it's forced upon you unjustly, take the issue up with the sensor and discuss it constructively. So let's keep the to the issue of attracting more people, and keep the undertones out of it.

>Like over crowded climbing areas and how profit goes before the enviroment.

I hear a lot of bitching about overcrowding, environmental damage etc., but are you blaming Burnley as the root cause of it all?

What do you propose we do with Burnley? Tear it down again? Pick it up and move it out of the public's eye? Tear down anything that's too easy for you so only people who crank harder than you can climb there?

How do we stop/slow down the impact? Can we do things differently? How do we educate people on what our concerns are, and how they can contibute as well. These are the questions that we should be asking and working through on this thread.