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algebraist

algebraist

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Hi All,

First let me say I love RIU. I'm in the middle of my first grow, there's so much to learn, and I can (and do!) literally spend hours just absorbing knowledge from this site. As we all know, it was down for a few days recently, and during that time it started to seem -- to me, at least -- like it wasn't coming back. So I started looking around for some substitute, and I did not find one I liked half as much. I did a fair amount of thinking about it, and here is what I think makes RIU stand out:

1) First and foremost, it seems to be the most heavily used -- more posts about everything, going way back; more peple responding quickly to new posts. "Most active" sums it up.

2) It has a more usable style. I believe that's due primarily to the "xenforo" forum software; it's just organized well. Some of these sites have the forums and threads all crammed together so you go cross-eyed trying to look at them; spins my head.

3) Tolerance. There are threads you can come across where seasoned members seem to be purposely trying to annoy the site administrators -- who are participating in the thread -- and there are no repercussions. I suspect on another site, a post like this one would get pretty quickly taken down, the poster (me!) banned. Here, I think we're free to discuss what we want, including the site itself. (Hope I'm right!)

That was all the "why I love RIU." I sincerely hope it gets itself back together -- I'm not complaining that it's taking time to get images working, I'm just nervous that maybe it's an indication that all is not well. And if it goes away again, it will be too late to ask you all the question I have been taking way too long to get around to asking: Where would you hang out, if there was no RIU?

I couldn't find an answer I liked. But in the worst case, if we lose this site, I'd like to go wherever my RIU brothers and sisters do...
 
algebraist said:
Hi All,

First let me say I love RIU. I'm in the middle of my first grow, there's so much to learn, and I can (and do!) literally spend hours just absorbing knowledge from this site. As we all know, it was down for a few days recently, and during that time it started to seem -- to me, at least -- like it wasn't coming back. So I started looking around for some substitute, and I did not find one I liked half as much. I did a fair amount of thinking about it, and here is what I think makes RIU stand out:

1) First and foremost, it seems to be the most heavily used -- more posts about everything, going way back; more peple responding quickly to new posts. "Most active" sums it up.

2) It has a more usable style. I believe that's due primarily to the "xenforo" forum software; it's just organized well. Some of these sites have the forums and threads all crammed together so you go cross-eyed trying to look at them; spins my head.

3) Tolerance. There are threads you can come across where seasoned members seem to be purposely trying to annoy the site administrators -- who are participating in the thread -- and there are no repercussions. I suspect on another site, a post like this one would get pretty quickly taken down, the poster (me!) banned. Here, I think we're free to discuss what we want, including the site itself. (Hope I'm right!)

That was all the "why I love RIU." I sincerely hope it gets itself back together -- I'm not complaining that it's taking time to get images working, I'm just nervous that maybe it's an indication that all is not well. And if it goes away again, it will be too late to ask you all the question I have been taking way too long to get around to asking: Where would you hang out, if there was no RIU?

I couldn't find an answer I liked. But in the worst case, if we lose this site, I'd like to go wherever my RIU brothers and sisters do...
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I don't like any of the other weed forums either. So if RIU goes down, we just go to another site and troll the fuck out of it. Grasscity likes to get trolled
 
@Big_Lou: Cool; let me know where your favorite after hours drag bar porno theater is, and maybe we can catch a show. And by the way, any particular pot growers' forum you like, other than this one?

@Gary Goodson: I like it. Eventually, though, if RIU stays down, we're going to have to settle somewhere...
 
Yeah, okay. I'll tell you what made me most nervous: In scouring the web trying to find out what was up with RIU, I found that there is a rollitup.org Facebook page. And there was no information there. You'd think if the site was down, there'd be a "Hang in there; we're on it" message on the Facebook page. Since there wasn't, I started to wonder if maybe RIU was just some guy getting stoned in his parents' basement, and maybe he decided he didn't give a shit anymore... Now that's it's back, looking through the support threads, it looks like it's at least a little bigger than that, but as far as I can tell nobody has ever volunteered any information about who's behind it. Not looking for names, of course, but it would be nice to know that there were enough people so that if one person doesn't look both ways before crossing the street, that's not the end of site support forever -- first power outage and there's nobody there to press the "on" switch...
 
ICG and A pvt site.

And then like Gary, I love to set out to troll dip shits at other sites.....Slapping a fool with butt hurt can be quite calming!
 
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