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Originally Posted by jennyb  I really object to your tone about this. At least you had the decency to email me afterwards to explain my mistake. This photo was taken in 2006 when I was a complete beginner and just developing an interest in fungi. I also posted a photo in the WAB Gallery at the same time and no-one has pointed out my mistake in all that time. It is still there so maybe someone should delete it.
It would be nice if you could learn to be civil in your communications. You are the type of person who gives mycology a bad name.
Looking back at this ID, I realise that it is probably not on beech, but on birch, but on my web site, I take pains to point out that my IDs may not be correct.
The fact that my web site comes top in Google means that I am at least an expert in search engine optimisation if not in mycology!
Jenny |
hi Jenny
yes in retrospect that was wrong of me and I apologise unreservedly; one forgets that this medium can be very blunt-edged and that behind a website are people with sensitivities - this came after I had looked at lots of sites and was becoming more and more exasperated at some of the stuff out there
"It would be nice if you could learn to be civil in your communications. You are the type of person who gives mycology a bad name".
In my defence may I point out that
(a) in my response to your website (which no one else on here will have seen of course) I was not uncivil, and did indeed comment favourably about the site in general, and
(b) that in fact that second comment is far more disrespectful and
personal than anything I posted originally (which was after all a comment on an image and not an individual)
perhaps following a line of previous mycologists on this site I should walk . . . .
Chris