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Watchtower new bolted line. 5-Mar-2014 At 10:30:56 PM Damien Gildea

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On 5/03/2014 Big G wrote:
>On 5/03/2014 Duang Daunk wrote
>>
>just suggesting that maybe they're silent because they don't care or don't
>care enough to post on our little climbing forum.

Maybe. Or, like the majority of users of most climbing forums, they never actually post anything and certainly never want to get involved in the endless argy-bargy of forum slanging matches. It doesn't mean they don't care, they just have to make a choice and (at least by the stats of a few years ago) when it comes to it they choose not to post.

Their dislike of (in this case) excessive bolting very much exists, it just isn't publicly registered. You can blame them for not acting, with some justification, but that still doesn't make the excessive bolting OK. Unfortunately, this seeming lack of opposition can encourage proliferation and ultimately, as noted above, it ends up in the hands of non-climbing bureaucrats and out of the hands of climbers.

A little dated, and UK, but indicative nonetheless: http://www.ukclimbing.com/forums/t.php?t=153813&v=1#x2180583