The constant stream of good news stories on the metal detecting thread is very heartening. But isn't the thread mis-named?
The only thing that the rest of society needs to care about with metal detecting is whether detectorists are Recorders or Non-Recorders.
I fear that the good news stories boost the latter in the eyes of the public since they don't realise there's a stark difference between the behaviour of the two groups.
How about starting up two new threads - Recording Metal Detecting Thread and Non-Recording Metal Detecting Thread. I'd be very happy to contribute good news stories to the former (I have several) and I don't see why EVERYONE here shouldn't be willing to contribute to the latter - after all, recording detectorists, by definition, know that non-recording is damaging.
I hardly think this is a devisive proposal - it's an opportunity to do some solid good for PAS, Recording Detecting AND the resource.
