On re-reading the post critical of Mark Bibby's Poland report, I must admit that I felt it perhaps went beyond the acceptable norm of rough and tumble web exchanges. A more suitable opening gambit post could well have been a little more probing, perhaps along the lines of, "What are the mechanics, pros and cons of mammal spotlighting?"........ and waiting for a reply before going on to a vigorous and reasoned attack.
Despite a spirited attempt to defend and justify his Poland activities, we now have a publically savaged, bruised and dejected LBC Member, obviously fazed by unexpected and very harsh critical comments. I personally have no clear idea of the merits or otherwise of mammal spotlighting but I would certainly be better informed as a result of a reasonable web discussion on the subject.
Could we at least now agree amongst ourselves that if we strongly disagree with a particular web post, and we wish to rubbish it out of hand in very strong language, we could pour out our anger in a personal/private email (pm) but post less aggressive comments on the PUBLIC website..repeat public website? Surely, that is one of the reasons we have a pm system, anyway.
Those of us who have been on birding and butterfly trips with Mark Bibby, know him as a committed, competent and enthusiastic all-round Naturalist and where the terms 'maniac' and 'shame' have no place whatsoever.
Could we now move forward and dare hope, after such a vigorous and robust condemnation of Mark Bibby's post, for a follow-up post perhaps second-thinking the original anger and also analysing the cons of mammal spotlighting? It might just help to salvage and emphasise some degree of fellow respect amongst ourselves and to help maintain a reasonable camaraderie in future information and comment exchanges on our worthy and honourable website.
Regards,
Freddy
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