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chuffing / Re: closed project etiquette
« Last post by stone on Today at 07:08:19 am »One take home to me is that we really ought to big-up route/boulder developers a lot more. As Ru said, kc and a couple of others have crafted many gems and unearthed whole crags, not to mention the amazing rebolting/stabilisation work on pre-existing routes. I'm not sure whether many people climbing at the Tor now realise that pretty much all of the glue-ins were placed by kc. His glueing job on the jug at the start of Mecca was a nationally significant infrastructure project.
The thing is that many route developers don't seek "payment" for their efforts by way of permanently closing forlorn projects (eg I don't think eg kc ever has). Without even having the French convention of the developer naming a route, there is no other give-back from the community to developers. So, as a community, we indulge a very small minority of developers with decades-old closed projects by way of "payment" to developers at large, most of whom don't close projects for unreasonably long periods anyway.
The thing is that many route developers don't seek "payment" for their efforts by way of permanently closing forlorn projects (eg I don't think eg kc ever has). Without even having the French convention of the developer naming a route, there is no other give-back from the community to developers. So, as a community, we indulge a very small minority of developers with decades-old closed projects by way of "payment" to developers at large, most of whom don't close projects for unreasonably long periods anyway.