I'm a new grower and forum member. I've done a lot of reading on the 'net, this site, in books, and have watched several videos. Guess what? None of it provided me with practical experience. I, like many others, come here to ask for help from people who do have experience to put everything together. If you don't want to help people stop reading topics where people are asking for help. If you want to bitch at a newbie for not having as much experience and knowledge as you you might want to look into improving your confidence and self esteem. If you see someone has posted a topic that's been covered, how about you link them to previous topics and tell them how you searched for it? That would ACTUALLY be helpful, as opposed to the "you're a stupid newbie" replies. Most of the help I've gotten on this site has come from other forum newbies with experience growing.
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I've been smoking dope longer than most of you have been alive and definitely longer than there has been an internet, PC's, etc. lol!!! BUT... I AM a noob to
indoor growing, that is what brought me here in the first place. I have "met" some incredibly knowledgable and helpful people here --- I have also encoutered a few world-class assholes who seem to think they are too good to answer questions, but instead bash the questioner (I'm betting most of them are your typical 20-year old keyboard commandos!!). That being said, this is an absolutely wonderful site and pretty much anything you want to know about cultivating the sacred herb can be found here.
But please guys ---- cut us old farts some slack!!! We didn't grow up around computers and are not as proficient in the cyber-world as many of you. Often I have asked a very simple question and been greeted with insults and derision --- yet no one will/can answer the question! Usually some elder member will eventually step in and answer, but you get my point??? I have run every possible search I can think of before I will post a question. I KNOW the info is there, but often I don't know how to find it. BUT, I'm here to learn about indoor growing, not internet bullshit!!!
The point is, there was a time when YOU were the ones posting annoying, repetitive questions --- we will all go through this phase in our journey, but we will also all emerge from it more knowledgeable than we were. It is then our duty and privilege to spread this knowledge to those who follow in our footsteps.