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I don't know if it's my computer or the system but it is getting real hard to stay loyal here seeing as 50 pct of the time the system is down....we have had some great discussions here and I really want to see this site flourish.....please if any one can get thru to the system administrater please convey our feelings...
thanks you
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Originally Posted by denverbear
Same problem here. This gets frustrating.
It'd be great to see some people come back, but I think that frustration has cost them a few members.
An overt ack of experienced mods, no quality controls on those giving growroom assistance, rules being arbitrarily enforced or not enforced at all...
At least these are some of the reasons I don't participate much any more. I've talked to many of the old timers that have left here, and the story is pretty much the same. Too many punks, not enough of an effort for punk removal. Used to be this was a comfortable site to avoid the younger/immature crowd, as this WAS a site dedicated to the medical use of cannabis. Now it looks just like any other dope site. I came here to help other cannabis patients learn the process of growing, not to teach jr. high kids to hide their grows in their parents home, and I have no desre to watch the drug talk continue to cloud this site's integrity.
Perhaps management will address this issue eventually, but the inexperience of the mods have cost this site dearly.
Meh!
They don't seem to care.:(
And offering constructive criticism can get you banned!:wtf:
This used to be the best cannabis board around.
Had PMs, helpful master growers, brilliant thinkers, and superior mods.
It still has the best MJ archives on the web!
The decline was a very sad thing to watch.
I still pop in, (when it's working), and try to make helpful posts here and there.
But, I now hang-out on the working, and responsive boards where most of the talent here has fled.
Won't mention any urls.
That would be rude to Sundance.
If you can google, you can find me, easily.
On-line, most of the day, elsewhere.
As for Cdot?
Make use of the parts that still function when you can.
They are offered free of charge.
Don't even bother to complain.
Seems it's a take it, or leave it, as-is, kine sing!
Aloha my friends.
Wee 'zard
Here! Here! The bogginess and triviality are a bit tedious. Still plenty of decent thinking going on though it seems. I like the location specific angle.
Most of the site issues seem to be due to lack of resources. "The server is too busy." "Down for scheduled maintenance."
Used to be this site would just have a brief hour long downtime for database and whatnot around 11PM Cali time every day. Cool, I could work with that.
Now, it's getting near-impossible to maintain a journal here, given the downtime, and then I've got another job that keeps me ultra-busy which only compounds the issue further, especially since it involves a BIG company whose name means 'A musical note raised a semitone above natural pitch'
And most other sites don't interest me because they're heavily commercialized (Like RIU with its own store, wtf man) or way too astroturfy, or full of punks. Though I do like to go to one punk-filled board because it's absolutely fun to let loose and troll them. I must get banned/unbanned every other day over there because half the mods worship me and the other half absolutely hate me.
Over moderation can be just as bad IMO, I've belonged to other sites for other hobbies and it can get way out of control.
I'm faily new here and compared to above mentioned experiences this forum seems fairly tame. I haven't even noticed any references to moderators but I have learned it's not good to challenge them as they do have the power to ban you.
This site is free but it can't be free to operate so I'll reserve my critisizm although the the busy server thing can be annoying it generally seems brief.
I think there are a LOT of redundant postings which could be addressed by a little more moderation I think because a lot of people are lazy and don't bother to search a forum before posting general questions which have probably been answered dozens of times over.
The over-moderation tends to come from those with nothing better to do or too obsessed with their little corner of the internet.Quote:
Originally Posted by Purple Daddy
I do believe we still have a lack of moderators. I shouldn't be one due to my current ties with commercial endeavors, as that would pose a conflict of interest. No doubt I'd get some recommendations, but I just can't do it for now.
I wish we could implement a system that would semi-scan a post and suggest similar threads before allowing a post - and you WOULD have to read at least a few threads before being allowed to post your post. Granted, it would be mad annoying, BUT it would really cut down redundant posting, plus stop billions of nonsensical threads.
Information wants to be free, but it can't be free when it's weighed down by redundancy, which quite often introduces flawed information.
Ive found another Colorado only forum that even offers daily deals to the members. It is associated with mile hi mmj patient magazine.
This one is down way to much.