when i first joined riu it seemed like there wasn't as many hateful replys in threads. if you don't have anything positive to add why take the time to type it?
and to the folks throwing around growing advice that haven't tried the method yourself, please have a refernce you can send us to.
well to be quite fair, the amount of plain dumb as pointless threads being made, one after another, all on the same topic, is absurd. i mean how many threads about police helicopters or IP adresses do you feel like reading. if it was me, i'd kick people from the forum for laziness, i don't see why i should spend time typing out a correct, wordy explanantio to something, when all it would have taken was 2 seconds of their own time, newbie or not. for exmaple today i responded to a thread asking for the difference between a male and a female, and offering me REP for it, now i found a picture to answer the question within 2 seconds using the super dooper coplex phrase of "marijuana male or female"
people keep talking about snooty angry replies of little use showing the forum down, well i think that a page of "how much will i yield" threads tends to make it look a lot worse than the replies in the threads.
as to people just randomly giving advice, it is a big one, as people know, a lot of advice is taken alongside the post count of the user. i don't have a high post count, so if i'm gonna offer advice that might directly effect a plant (for example should i use an HPS from seed or not) then i will try and get a picture of my plants to show why i'm suggesting it (my plants are healthy, so that's kinda my reference for advice at present
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there is sometimes some over-hating though, but not that often.
