Apologies, as I split Spade's post into AUSUE, but lost the original as well. Derp!
This is his text:
Spades wrote:Someone made an attack in this post about this "cool" trend being the reason I explore. I began when my father showed me a La Parouse bunker down in the NSW GOLF National Park, and it captivated to me to search for more. I looked up more and more things becoming more and more interested. Sooner rather than later, I found myself on urbantwilight.net which opened my world into more possibilities such as drains and rooftops which I yearned to learn about.
Possibly one of the greatest moments of my life is locating the Fortress and finding a way into it with no aid/help/map etc. The moment realising this is real and not a photo is the reason why I explore. The photo is just a lesser version of my memory captured forever to spark that initial feeling that motivates me to explore. I share these memories with everyone I can because its something I love and I'm interested in. It's my hobby.
Dropping spots and locations just wrecks these memories for yourself and others, and I have a strict policy never to explore with graffiti artists (for various reasons).
The point I was making with my first post is to point out that more and more of the younger generation has be captivated by "urbex" or "urban exploration" and its detrimental consequences on us all.
Anyway, the only thing really being effected are rooftops and some train tunnels - the bad explorers get caught, the fame hunters punished, and by making the rooftop and tunnels more secure, just preserves the spot for the more advanced and experienced explorers - and heighten the reward
People enjoy sharing - with our particular hobby, there should be some restraints.