i had a long reply prepared and it got deleted im sorry
i will say when i posted that i expected to get keel hauled
and then i seen it was u that replied i cringed
To me, that was VERY FUNNY!
but i read what u say and it makes sense
i love this site
i found this one and looked at others and it was a bunch of uninformed spreading old myths
That is why I picked this site to spend most of my time on. It was clearly the one most in need of help. For God's sake, not all that long after joining there was a member telling others that when you harvest you should pull your plants from the soil whole and put the roots in boiling water to drive/force the THC up from the roots where it is made and into the buds, and some people believed it and agreed with it.
If that is not the sign of a site needing help I will NEVER see one.
u say u love it too
well why dont we work to change it lets help people
even if they dont do research lets help them give them links
point them in direction
we all help but i think we can help this site that we call home better
That is what I wanted to do, or at least be a part of, but there has been too much resistance, too much unwillingness to accept facts over fiction, truths over beliefs and there is a handful of sacred cows that are basically protected by a certain mod or two and those members go out of their way to harass and disrupt and cloud things and deny facts and do everything they can and want to keep the old ways going, and as long as they have immunity, as long as they have a get out of jail free card, as long as they are protected and allowed to run rampant over anyone they wish, there is no chance of making any appreciable difference here.
Another problem is there are so many who do not know dick and when someone asks a question they may get say 50 replies. If they are lucky 4 replies will be accurate, but the other 46 will be inaccurate and similarly inaccurate and they look at the weight of numbers and figure the 46 have to be the ones who know what they are talking about. Hey, if 46 people tell you something and 4 tell you something else, who will you likely believe?
I hate to give up, but I damn near have several times. Once I was sure I was going to but then I learned than unlike some other sites I have been a member of your account is not actually deleted here and you do not have the ability, or right, to have your entire post history deleted. Some other sites I have been a member of someone could wipe clean their post history an delete their own account ... which is something I like because now and then someone has a concern about security and they would feel a whole lot better if everything they posted, words and pictures alike, could be removed from a site either by them or by a mod.
I got to the point where that is what I wanted to do and asked if it could be done for me since the option is not given the members and I was told if I don't want to be here, just don't come back, and that post histories would never be deleted because it would; "leave holes."
To Hell with; "holes" is what I thought. If someone had a security concern, which was not the case with me, they should have the right to delete their posts or have them deleted for them. For anyone who is not in a Med State and legal security is job one and I think any site should allow the members to delete their messages or have them deleted. I just wanted mine deleted because I was fed up with a few things and I did not want to leave a footprint. It wouldn't be done so I took a short vacation and then I lurked a bit and then I found myself posting again.
But more and more I believe that unless changes are made, some major changes, and made soon this place will become a lost cause. At best it will be a site made up of three groups. The jerks who live to argue and harass and to jump down the throat of every single newbie, the group who believe they know everything when in fact they know almost nothing, and whatever newbies are unlucky enough to pick this site to join.
Without some real changes made, and made soon, what would be at best a small group of dedicated members trying their best to be helpful and bring about change will not be enough to save it.
Just look at the place. Often times it is the ones who know the most who are the ones who catch the most flak. Uncle Ben probably knows more about growing than anyone else here and he catches all sorts of flak. As long as you preach 'the party line' and pass on the myths and misconceptions and half-truths and total inaccuracies and urban legends and old hippie folklore and believe that you, or others like you, are capable of performing real true and more accurate 'experimentation' in your closet or basement or spare room or store room or attic or grow tent or garage than an actual research facility with PhD's running things and who have access to all the latest high tech equipment, you are beloved and cherished by the masses. But if you make the grievous error of mentioning a proven horticultural fact you are branded a heretic and despised by many.
It might already be too late to bring back this site and turn it into what I once thought it could become, a top notch growing site. There are to many closed minds and empty heads to overcome, not to mention to many trolls, some of which have protected status, that are sacred cows here and can do and say and they please with total impunity.
We like to joke about our little pirate ship here but at the rate this site is going it will turn into a pirate ship growing site and it will be The Flying Dutchman.
But on the topic of pirates .... sort of ... here is my favorite Halloween joke about a little kid that dressed up as a pirate.
On Halloween a little boy with a speech impediment was getting ready to go trick or treating. He dressed up as a pirate, wore a three corner hat, an eye patch, had a fake parrot on his shoulder and a wooden sword and out he went to get candy.
At the first house he stopped at he rang the doorbell and when a woman opened the door the little boy said, brick or breat.
The woman said, what?
Again the little boy said, brick or breat and he held out his candy bag for the woman to see.
The woman said, oh, trick or treat. As she picked up a bowl of candy to give some to the little boy she asked him, and what are you my little man?
The little boy said, I'm a birate.
The woman said, what?
The little boy pointed at the three corner hat, eye patch, parrot and wooden sword and said, I'm a birate.
The woman said, oh, so you're a pirate. She looked around noticing that the little boy was all alone and she asked, if you're a pirate where's your buccaneers?
The little boy said, what?
The woman said, where's your buccaneers?
The little boy pointed at his ears and said, here's my buckin ears lady, where's your buckin eyes?
.. At least they let us play on threads already captured.
