21st April 2010, 08:57 AM
RedEarth Wrote:Not at all, I'm saying that field archaeologists (whatever that might mean) don't do themselves or each other any favours - plenty of complaining but not much action. Join the IfA, join a union, do both or something, but sitting on the sidelines complaining and setting up polls which have pretty much answered themselves isn't helpful....
Actually I think the poll's demonstrated a couple of things:
(a) there's a vary varied view of IFA (comparing the various results on the poll suggests mostly slightly negative of middle, Jack didn't allow too many positive options and the one there is doesn't seem too popular), so you're not going to get everyone to join etc unless there are some pretty radical changes
(b) you're in for an uphill struggle, frankly most people don't care, after 24 hours there are a massive 40 votes, at 8.30 last night 64 people were viewing it, but clearly most of them regard IFA as so irrelevent as to not be worth commenting on (I'm in the yellow camp however)