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The Eyrie, Mt Boyce retrobolted! Badly... 8-Jan-2017 At 7:48:02 AM Wendy

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On 6/01/2017 voodoo wrote:
>Just remember that the opinions you hear here are not necessarily representative of the greater climbing community - you'll get loads of wailing and gnashing of teeth from either extreme, whereas the silent majority either don't care, aren't here or have better things to do (like climbing).

>On 6/01/2017 gordoste wrote:
>>I don't buy the "silent majority" argument - 80% of outdoor climbing
>is done by 20% of climbers.
>
>This site has <8000 accounts of which 70 were active in the last 24 hrs
>and a mere handful of whom took the time to post on this thread. So if
>you think that's meaningfully representative of this country's climbing
>community then well I don't know what to say.

I'm not sure how else you would inform people. It's on thecrag.com as well, although that has about 5 responses, so I think Chockstone might get a lot more traffic. It's been up here for over a week so probably has a lot more views than 70. It's had more views than it would on the notice board in the Pines I imagine and more contribution to a broader discussion. Or should we go an old fashioned mail out to all current members of any climbing club or gym in the country and wait for responses? You wouldn't get me from that method and I don't imagine I'm alone.

People do just lurk on here without accounts as well and are free to make an account and contribute anytime. Others know it exists and simply can't be bothered using it.

The internet is really the best medium for getting to maximum numbers efficiently these days and if people choose not to engage, that is their choice not to express an opinion in the most used public discussion tool and the cost is their opinion is not going to be considered. Warrick barely ever climbs these days and still knew to and bother to use Chockstone on a topic that mattered to him.

It's not really obscure. And you really do credit Chockstone for being much busier than it is if you think it gets in the way of doing better things ... I'll be out climbing in another 15 minutes time. I'm just multitasking Chockstone and brekky.