"Cleaning"

Digging out and chipping boulders seems commonplace in many bouldering areas in Colorado. It seems like most people know exactly who is doing it, but nobody says anything and the community seems content on allowing it to continue. Yet we completely ostracized Ivan Greene for doing the same thing? This seems extraordinarily hypocritical.

Here, the rock behind the flake was chipped away to create this starting jug.

Much chipping sneaks by under the guise of "cleaning" and these people are quick to defend their actions by stating that their critics don't understand what it takes to clean and develop boulder problems. I have cleaned and developed over 100 boulder problems and a few sport climbs and I understand that there can be a grey area when cleaning a new line, but some of the things I have seen out here are outrageous and blatant manufacturing. 

STOP CHIPPING!

Seriously.