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Post by gulfcoastguy on Aug 13, 2014 11:04:52 GMT -5
I don't normally like to mention other sites but the time is coming for action. Idig my garden is in full melt down. Most of it's main posters have either gone to organic gardening.com or have disappeared from the radar entirely. The one's that have disappeared have been sucked in by Facebook I guess. I left organic gardening back in 2006 though I had retained my signin until a year ago. Most of the people that I chatted with on organic gardening are gone. notjusttomatoes has changed my user name and password to a genera password for pro boards and won't let me sign in. I'm NOT changing my user name just because Hal took over the system. That brings us to here. Lately it has just been private conversations between me and Coppice. That isn't worth the expense of Red maintaining the site.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2014 12:55:04 GMT -5
Well, this is a free site. Its justified by the adds.
I don't want to beat up on red, but if you abandon your pets they starve and waste away.
I can't make ya stay, but I miss playing with and talking about gardening as these forums wither.
Red will do what he has to do.
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Post by gulfcoastguy on Aug 13, 2014 15:09:44 GMT -5
Well Coppice where is another gardening forum that isn't : stiflingly regulated, spam infested, and relatively nice?. I have a long list of posters who have dropped completely out of sight.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2014 16:50:17 GMT -5
I have none. The fertile field here (and Not Just Tomatoes) is about all I go to that has a general gardening focus. A-n-d doesn't have a smothering set of covenants. The day of gardenweb's universality died a while ago.
Need4seed reaches out to primarily battered and or disabled women who want to garden. I dunno if it will ever reach out to a great plurality. All of its good intentions notwithstanding.
Mind I am not complaining, but both of our decriptors say "moderator", even though neither of us have any moderator powers here.
Gulf what "action" do you propose to take?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2014 16:50:28 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2014 17:40:55 GMT -5
They'll probably skin me for doin' this. The Soil Compost and Mulch Froup might be worth your review. it broke off of gardenweb in the aughts (2005 or 6) and has continued off in its own world ever since. z15.invisionfree.com/SCMFroup/index.phpPlay nice ya' hear?
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Post by gulfcoastguy on Aug 13, 2014 19:12:34 GMT -5
I'll wait at least a couple of weeks before investigate that site. I'll even lurk for a while to be sure.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2014 7:49:28 GMT -5
As I see it, you asked, I offered up what I had. Ya'll will do whats good for you.
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Post by garrett on Aug 15, 2014 9:17:24 GMT -5
It's been a long last couple months Sorry I been missing What do I /we do?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2014 11:53:25 GMT -5
wegottatalkalot. Really? I think we keep on playing nice, and the forum platform will rebalance after tweeting looses some of its luster. SCM Froup had a stronger start than this one did red, but its members have slowly drifted away (or died) in dribs and drabs over the past decade. They DO play nice as we do here. But the handwriting is on its wall too. Need4seed supports some fairly damaged (women mostly). Where it and here overlap the most is in tree plantation. It too grew out of gardenweb as a result of bashing the then-out sider class.
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Post by garrett on Aug 21, 2014 9:50:27 GMT -5
Copp if yu and gulf had admin powers would that help?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2014 7:16:40 GMT -5
Copp if yu and gulf had admin powers would that help? We seem to be passing under the spam-sales-robot radar. This site may not be getting enough hits to become the next Gucci-disfunction, junction. We all play nice with each other. I'm not sure there is anything for Gulf or I to do with admin powers. If/when knock-off jewelry comes to the acres, it may take all of us to clean up the merde they leave behind.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2014 7:19:13 GMT -5
Please folks this kind of forum went out of style by bashing and the eating of its own children. We don't do that, to our credit.
Everything old is new again eventually.
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Post by gulfcoastguy on Aug 22, 2014 12:26:17 GMT -5
Well I'm sticking around for a while. Gotta have a place to talk about the "waldon'ts" as I call them. We don't have a problem with spam but there is a lack of posting. What the solution is I probably don't know, like most engineers I'm not known as a people person.
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Post by directsunlight on Aug 23, 2014 0:23:15 GMT -5
Well, I'm back in school... I'm seeing it going the other way lately, as August winds up people are seeming to lose their interest in posting on Facebook. Twitter is what birds do after they bite a chunk out of one of my tomatoes, so I don't think I'll be getting on there
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2014 8:06:01 GMT -5
My take has ever been once there is a big enough population attracted to a site, the zombies and other square pegs are drawn like moths to a flame.
Now based on a lot of time spent on the bench at this kinda game, we need about two dozen posters to keep the air fresh and the site welcoming.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2014 18:11:47 GMT -5
In all things there is a season. I might want a fuller group of regular posters here, there are worse things than a small forum gang.
Another forum family of mine has one poster who is at bat for the second time with cancer, and another poster has a sibling passing (as well as an extreemly eldery parent) at home.
Somehow (((hugs))) just don't feel adequate to their need.
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Post by garrett on Sept 8, 2014 18:42:37 GMT -5
Been a long hot crappy summer
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Post by gulfcoastguy on Sept 9, 2014 12:10:27 GMT -5
But the left you with plenty of compost making's didn't it Garret?
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