Encore – thanks for saying what I – and no few others – think!
A few in this place need to read this and then go and look in the mirror. More power to you Philip.
On 14 April 2013 19:36, Philip,kylie,Joshua,noah
> 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 members is too me a little outdated.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 > =============================== > > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, > send the message: > unsubscribe > (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) > to: birding-aus-request@vicnet.net.au > > http://birding-aus.org > =============================== >
