cronicr said:

callmehippie said:

Right. I honestly have no clue about all that. And I haven't heard anybody else use the word politics. I'm not blaming any mod for anything.  i simply cofused by it. Literally all flew over my head.

I saw people standing up for cat not having a TC Tag. not standing up for what he did. It's obvious what he did was pretty wrong and warranted a ban.

  it seems like politics. The whole s should cat .shouldn't he.  why  does/ dosnt deserves a TC tag etc.. That's the part that really says politics to me.

Then
Whenever you said I warned you guys and now I'm closing the thread. I didn't see the actual  warning.  I guess I missed it and I didn't understand when you closed it. To me.
seemed all connected.

Also seemed like politics because you punished everybody. including me. like I said I had nothing to do with any of that. So by shutting down the whole thread you punished everybody.

Instead of just selecting the few people that were causing you problems. That's another part I was annoyed about. I was like damn the threads just gone because of a few people speaking their mind.damn them lol

To me It seemed like it was a big misscumminaction in  what message people were portraying. But who knows that's just the way I saw it.

Hopefully you don't take any offense into me simply asking for clarification on the whole thing. cuz I was no part of it at all and really actually clueless. By no means was I picking aside and saying you were wrong for your actions if that makes sense.

But  You guys said this thread wouldn't of even made it past page two back in the day.  I haven't seen anything about blaming mods from page one to page 2.

I was asking what is the issue with the thread and its entirety that back in the day this wouldn't have made it as far as it has?  That part seems dumb now and then.

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Yes you saw people standing up for cat about a TC tag...but that had nothing to do with mods you didn't see any mods talking about it, that's not politics that just you guys talking lol, no mods ever mentioned anything about it .

Yes I did warn everyone, and then it went past that and some got official warnings , the next step is handing out more bans which isn't something I like to do and what would that have done? There would have been more people in here still complaining and now complaining but x getting bans and we're back to square one.

the simple solution is close the thread let everyone cool off and move on with day , so no there was no politics cat got himself banned a few people's asses hurt over I did my job and people jumped down my throat for it which is fine because had I handed those bans out they would've jumped down my throat anyway , they were pissy with mods over cat they would have been pissy about more bans and we're still pissy when no bans got handed out....I love my job

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First:

The reason this thread would have been locked early is because it has a topic. The topic is cultivation confessional. We're much more relaxed these days but 10 years ago any thread that continued to run off topic or produce off topic argumentation especially after being asked by mods to cool it and get back on topic would have resulted in a permanent lock of the thread. Period. This would often happen without warning, I'm looking at you RR. He'd just lock your shit up and laugh, do better.

This isn't a democracy.

Second: The catnip topic is a heated topic. There's plenty of behind the scenes discussion between mods and TCs, as well as continued engagement with catnip, who is most certainly a very angry troll.

Using a thread like this or any other to weaponize empathy on behalf of members in bad standing resulting in derailment of said threads, which is what happened here specifically, will produce the outcome mentioned in my first point above.

Third: If you were being "punished" you'd not have to wonder if you were or not .

Fourth: Just because an individual has friendly connections with people on or off the boards doesn't mean they're trustworthy. Being a trusted cultivator implies trust, it's literally in the name. Yeah, maybe we trust that you can produce mushrooms or answer questions on the topic but can we trust you when it really matters?

We have standards for trust that go beyond the ability to simply grow mushrooms. All our TCs are vetted, should you fail to pass the scrutiny of the mod staff, you're not going to be a TC despite popular opinion, until that situation changes. This isn't a popularity contest and it sure as shit isn't all that democratic.


The tag will not be asked for, people will not ask for their friends to receive it and folks sure as shit will not leverage any behavior, time in, crops grown, or any other thing to sway our opinions, it will only result in swaying our perception in a direction you're not going to like.

The tag while being a community honor is merit driven, and those merits reach beyond the ability to simply grow. We don't care how many friends or supporters you may have.

If any of this sounds unreasonable, it's how we keep this site together and functioning smoothly, as a team, without this place turning into reddit.

Furthermore, trusted cultivators are far from being boot lickers. Trust me, they're just as wild, cantankerous and resistant to obsequiousness as the rest of you riff raff. This is a drug forum, not your grandmother's knitting circle.

We trust TCs to do what they do without first having to check with anyone to perform their task, otherwise they wouldn't have been tagged; the same applies to moderators, we don't necessarily need to check before we do what we do because we're trusted with the capacity to make executive decisions. Mods gonna mod, if folks take issue with any mod or their decisions there's plenty of ways to address that issue which don't include derailing threads.

You're welcome, the mod team.

mushboy said:

B Traven said:

I grew up in a very diverse place

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as did i.

the 'culture shock' i had when i was 21 and first moved out to the boonies

and in boot camp i had a dude from tennessee tell me that i was a hick cause i lived in northern virginia born in DC.

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Stipe-n Cap said:
You're welcome, the mod team.

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Stipe-n Cap said:

You're welcome, the mod team.

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Thank you! except mushboy jk

boxtrotalpha said:

I vote for cage fights for TC tags. Can we make that happen? Maybe like a tier list, TC 1-5, the 5s being the cats you want on your side in a brawl. We can do the same for mods too. It'll be awesome. I'm putting good money on roscoe fwiw

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boxtrotalpha said:

I vote for cage fights for TC tags. Can we make that happen? Maybe like a tier list, TC 1-5, the 5s being the cats you want on your side in a brawl. We can do the same for mods too. It'll be awesome. I'm putting good money on roscoe fwiw

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mushboy said:

smokin meats

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PuffM4gicDr4gon said:

I vote that we get to vote

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callmehippie said:

Beef is the one who created the thread and topic. And up to this point he hadn't had any issues with the things being discussed.  And im Not talking bout the whole cat debacle.

I know he's not a moderator. but figured if he wanted it to stay so super specific to only things that we confess we are or aren't doing specifically related to mushroom cultivation. He would have said so.

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callmehippie said:

I get all of that. all definitely makes much more sense. I don't get the this thing has a topic and it's constantly being taken off topic. Those were people's thoughts and confessions to how they actually feel to something that was happening in mushroom cultivation which to me seems pretty on topic.

Or the topic of this thread is a little bit more broad than it states.
Maybe that's just the way it's evolved.

Either way I would still argue every conversation and thing that's been discussed in this thread has in some way or another been related to our mushroom cultivation. Or us as cultivators.

except for maybe when we were talking about shaving our pubes LOL. but it's also a confessional where all of the mushroom cultivators are confessing just what's on their mind.

and that may not have to do specifically with mushrooms but since we're all mushroom cultivators it still counts. That's why I like this place.

But what ultimately makes sense is something like that I guess belongs in the pub? And in that case my argument doesn't hold any water LOL.

Beef is the one who created the thread and topic. And up to this point he hadn't had any issues with the things being discussed.  And im Not talking bout the whole cat debacle.

I know he's not a moderator. but figured if he wanted it to stay so super specific to only things that we confess we are or aren't doing specifically related to mushroom cultivation. He would have said so.

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B Traven said:

so much is gonna depend on how much drywall you put in your substrate

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