Having been on this forum for only a few months and only relatively new to this type of discussion, I find it some what childish and a form of bullying to be constantly corrected on spelling mistakes or incorrect use of the “english” language. The first thread regarding the night parrot or should I say the Night Parrot was a great insight into the unknown world of this elusive and hard to see species, and any sightings or possible sightings of this species would be of significant importance to birding fraternity as well as other organisations that would be interested. However this thread has taken a back seat to the mundane and slightly “well actually highly irritable” thread on the use of English language and the need to have capitals or no capitals and the relevance to birding_aus members is too me a little outdated. Would it not be better to commend the thread and respond accordingly rather than pick up on a small spelling mistake that is truthfully irrelevant to the overall story, I have only posted once on here and the reason I have not posted again was that every response bar one was only to correct me on my spelling or misuse of bird names! At present Facebook is alive with posts regarding how childish and irrelevant the posts are on birding_aus and that most people have decided to not post or at worse not subscribe due to the same bullying behaviour I experienced. I believe that there may only be a small group of people actually doing this but it gives the whole site a really bad taste in mouth. If you were a new or inexperienced birdwatcher/ bird lover and stumbled across birding_aus in the last week it would be some what amusing to see basically no threads regarding birds but 50 threads regarding capital letters! I understand my English isn’t up to scratch and am expecting to be inundated by abusive emails but I believe it needs to be said that if this continues the amount of falloff subscribers will be greater than the useless threads about the use of common names! Cheers Philip ===============================
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