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I posted a challenge to the ethics of posting that tree in that way. My tone was not very approving.

"Never has so much been said by so many about so little."

The original article can only be one of two things: a deliberate attempt to downplay one tree, or a colossal misstep due to ignorance and/or stupidity. That's really the only way to read it.

Another friend of Boon simply stated that it called into question the integrity of the entire contest. Both posts were summarily deleted as if they had never existed.

Here's the PM I got from Attila, whom, by the way, I respect:

Hi Chris,

I had to delete the posts toward the end of "Artistic Credit" thread.
You must have completely misunderstood the issue, we went out of our way to make the contest as fair as possible.

The thread had a very interesting thing going until you derailed it, we prefer to keep it that way. Sorry, but I don't want it to become another Will Heath bashing, we had enough of those.

Sincerely,
Attila

I tend to disagree with his estimation of the thread, but when editing posts, a certain amount of acknowledgement should be given.

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