G’day all
I had nothing to contribute to the Night Parrot discussion but was keenly following it. Several comments were made about common name capitalisation under the original thread title. I couldn’t resist adding to this as it is a bugbear with me in my job as a writer of scientific papers. As a BA member since 1996 I was careful to change the thread title.
People could choose to follow this thread or not. If they don’t like any of my posts they can filter me out. That’s what I typically do with threads related to cats, dogs, duck shooting, leg flags, canon netting etc.
I have never abused anyone on BA and I have never got stuck into an obvious beginner. Most of my interaction with other BA members is taken off-line unless I think others might be interested.
The thread on capitalisation has obviously upset some and they have made the leap to pedantry and then to bullying. Pedantry maybe but certainly not bullying. Bullying should be called out at the time. I don’t think any of the follow-up posts on my capitalisation thread could be construed as bullying.
The title of this thread says it all. Who is arrogant enough to decide what is mundane or useless for all of us?
Cheers Steve ‘whatshisname” Clark Hamilton, Victoria ===============================
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