I have only posted a couple of things on UK Caving. The first was a genuinely curious request about photos of Peak Dale Tunnel's pretty formations. This gave rise to a hornet's nest of grumpy claims, counter claims and accusations which seems to be ongoing.
What a shame. I do not approve of cavers keeping cave sites, or in this case the site of a tunnel, secret. It leads to misunderstandings and to people unwittingly stumbling across places that others have kept secret. With digs, discoveries and the like, I firmly believe that if you are open about them, people will respect this. If people then pirate your dig or go into a place that is off limits because of an agreement with a landowner or because, like Peak Dale Tunnel, it has beautiful and fragile formations, they have no excuse.
Secrets are for M15, not for the caving world, in my view.
What a shame. I do not approve of cavers keeping cave sites, or in this case the site of a tunnel, secret. It leads to misunderstandings and to people unwittingly stumbling across places that others have kept secret. With digs, discoveries and the like, I firmly believe that if you are open about them, people will respect this. If people then pirate your dig or go into a place that is off limits because of an agreement with a landowner or because, like Peak Dale Tunnel, it has beautiful and fragile formations, they have no excuse.
Secrets are for M15, not for the caving world, in my view.