Caver Keith
Active member
I have a YouTube channel which has had a lot of unsought publicity of late.
It's mostly non cavers who watch the videos and the most popular comments are: "Why?", "I couldn't do that" and "You must be mad!" Although most commenters aren't quite as polite as this.
Recently the comments have been more along these lines:
fatwalletboy2
After the Thai rescue I think this type of caving should be outlawed. I can see the allure and sense of adventure a young child may gain from this activity but fail to see what grown adults get from this pointless pastime. People talk about exploration etc but a) in caves what are you really likely to "discover".....more rock more passages more tunnels etc. Big deal. B) Who for example has the role of regularly checking water levels in this video in this cave......they are swan in banging their heads about and smiling to camera whilst wading through mucky water at chin level on the way in........what if on the way its risen too much trapping them. It wont be all smiles then.......totally pointless exercises and risky unless you have all the bases covered. No good just relying on the mornings weather forecast and hoping its going to be a dry day......plus you can still get stuck somewhere until a wet day then its good night vienna if you havent freed yourself.?
And
John Xin
People are super stupid doing this, this isn?t any ?sports? at all, purely dumbass?
Any advice on the best way to respond to comments like these?
It's mostly non cavers who watch the videos and the most popular comments are: "Why?", "I couldn't do that" and "You must be mad!" Although most commenters aren't quite as polite as this.
Recently the comments have been more along these lines:
fatwalletboy2
After the Thai rescue I think this type of caving should be outlawed. I can see the allure and sense of adventure a young child may gain from this activity but fail to see what grown adults get from this pointless pastime. People talk about exploration etc but a) in caves what are you really likely to "discover".....more rock more passages more tunnels etc. Big deal. B) Who for example has the role of regularly checking water levels in this video in this cave......they are swan in banging their heads about and smiling to camera whilst wading through mucky water at chin level on the way in........what if on the way its risen too much trapping them. It wont be all smiles then.......totally pointless exercises and risky unless you have all the bases covered. No good just relying on the mornings weather forecast and hoping its going to be a dry day......plus you can still get stuck somewhere until a wet day then its good night vienna if you havent freed yourself.?
And
John Xin
People are super stupid doing this, this isn?t any ?sports? at all, purely dumbass?
Any advice on the best way to respond to comments like these?