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Re: Anyone notice the stedy decline in the quality and inteligence of the posts around here? [Re: gdman]
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well anyway, here is a thread that stefan started, please if you have anything constructive to add your are welcome to add it.


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Re: Anyone notice the stedy decline in the quality and inteligence of the posts around here? [Re: Liz]
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I've been here for about a year. (longer probably, and I'm counting since I started reading, not registered) I've noticed a definite drop in intelligence, but its mostly when I started going into other forums. When I first came, it was pretty much all Cultivation and Grow logs. Given that at the time I was a newbie, Cultivation didn't seem so bad. The 3 posts per page of the EXACT same question just helped re enforce it into my brain.

Although, I didn't post anything for a long time, because I've been to other forums and I know the importance of the damn search engine. I didn't need to post anything. Given the thousands and thousands of posts on this site, theres not likely a situation that makes me completely individual from every single post on this board. The question has been asked before, and the answer is only a search away. This goes for 95% of newbies. You must be in a really unique situation if its not covered (or close enough that you can use your brain to put the pieces together) by one of the many posts on the board.

So now I just look at it and see the same questions over and over. Its definitely nice to answer someone when they've done their reading and a concept confuses them. Either because its worded poorly or they just don't get it. But too often its just, "where do i get syringes?" "how long are they good for?" and of COURSE "what strain should I get?"

The entho garden forum is great. Very few posts per hour, intelligent too. There are some repeated questions, "How much San Pedro d0 I needz to tr1p? Is this walmart cactus it!?". ODD just shows how irresponsible people can be (myself included). Its a very sad thing to see, but the sadness would exist even without the forum, we just wouldn't have to read about it. I mainly like the threads about LSD, from the old timers, chinacat and all. Mostly because it doesn't fit in another forum, that's where it goes.

The pub seems okay, not really into the social just to be social online thing. I've been to enough forums that it just doesn't interest me. The shroomery interests me because of its different forums, not the more typical one. Now, OTD is your typical bullshit forum. I can't stand it. Its really sad to read the better forums and then go in there and see this typical crap, almost as sad as IRC. Seeing how shroomery is a different kind of place, I was hoping it's irc chan would be too. But its just like every other IRC network, just with more drugs. People (possibly little kids?) get excited when they can talk shit about someone and not worry about the after effect of getting punched in the face. It seems to me now that its an unavoidable part of InternetRelayChat.

It goes hand in hand with some of the negative posts and ratings here. When I first came I didn't think it to be the kind of community where people post shit like "stupid hippie fag" "fagg0t" (a great one) "ghey" (a true beauty, almost as nice as gh3y) "c0cksucker" which is one I believe I have in my ratings.

Sorry for all the bitching, I'm done. Just needed to vent this shit.


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Re: Anyone notice the stedy decline in the quality and inteligence of the posts around here? [Re: Liz]
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ifallapart said:
I'm glad you weren't using spelling as a grounds for calling the posts unintelligent.  Seeing as you spelled intelligence wrong in your title, that wouldn't have been very fair.  I'm def. a newbie, but I promise to try not to disrupt anything :smile:


I'll take a mispelling over an idiot newbie who tells someone asking if they should eat some unidentified wild shrooms to go ahead and eat them. I've seen it seriously said before, "its worth a try" etc, as well as joking which isn't too hot either.


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Re: Anyone notice the stedy decline in the quality and inteligence of the posts around here? [Re: Koala Koolio]
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yeah I agree, I've only been here a day, and some people on here are definitely blatent imbeciles...but in terms of stupid posts, I'm not sure that you can blame all of it on "newbies" some people clearly have the IQ of a medium sized soap dish, and will continue to be stupid, no matter how many posts they have under their belt.


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Remember, remember the fifth of November
The gunpowder treason and plot.
I see no reason why gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot.


Edited by ifallapart (11/17/04 10:21 AM)

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Re: Anyone notice the stedy decline in the quality and inteligence of the posts around here? [Re: Liz]
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Some sites maintain sticky topics to which posters can contribute, thus maintaining a higher intellectual content on topics that don't get lost (the only trouble being the length of them)

I've been lurking off & on since @99 and I honestly thought this site wouldn't make it to where it is today. So you old-timers can mourn for the good-old-days when rum ran in the streets and the bars never closed but the fact is this place wouldn't exist without your efforts.

So yeah, things change, the wild-life is a little tamer and we check our guns in at the edge of town, but the streets are safe for the young-uns and you know that the small bit of freedom and American spirit that can still be found around these parts is thanks to you.

So let's brag about them good old days and swat 40's ass and know we can do it better an longer than any banty rooster struttin up town (no matter what the girls think) :wink:

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Re: Anyone notice the stedy decline in the quality and inteligence of the posts around here? [Re: goob]
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You should all be banned. You were new once too.


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afoaf said:
Jim, if you were in my city, I would let you fuck my wife.

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Re: Anyone notice the stedy decline in the quality and inteligence of the posts around here? [Re: Jim]
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"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."--Voltaire

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Re: Anyone notice the stedy decline in the quality and inteligence of the posts around here? [Re: silversoul7]
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hahahaha


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afoaf said:
Jim, if you were in my city, I would let you fuck my wife.

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Re: Anyone notice the stedy decline in the quality and inteligence of the posts around here? [Re: silversoul7]
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hey, post your pics in the other thread! :smirk:

:grin:

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Re: Anyone notice the stedy decline in the quality and inteligence of the posts around here? [Re: stefan]
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Did that last post have enough content for you?


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afoaf said:
Jim, if you were in my city, I would let you fuck my wife.

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Re: Anyone notice the stedy decline in the quality and inteligence of the posts around here? [Re: gdman]
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gdman said:
The title speaks for itself, for example I was reading a thread in General questions, and I forgot I was in the shroomery, same deal with ODD. Don't get me started about the pub, it just makes me sad how it seems the shroomery is cahnging, and not for the better :frown:.



I've noticed it too and it's disconcerting to say the least.

I mostly limit myself to the sponsor's forum and it's been quite alarming to see such a dramatic increase in bad grammar and moronic posts.

I think Ripple may be right about the "closed OTD" possibly adding to the problem.

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Re: Anyone notice the stedy decline in the quality and inteligence of the posts around here? [Re: gdman]
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as a site grows larger you are going to get a more representative sample of the true population.

Alot of people on the boards are here for the actual purpose of the boards, and alot are here for a social atmosphere.  I know i read the boards religiously every day, and its quite easy to just skip over the bullshit and continue.

I think the Pub is still a great forum (my favorite on here next to MA&L).

Look at anything in life.  When you are a part of something or do something for a while, you will always reminisce about the old days...but whats the point in that?  Things change, either change with them or be left behind.

...It could always be worse :smile:

--Krem


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"Human suffering has been caused because all too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use, and that the mere presence of a word in the dictionary does not mean it necessarily refers to something definitive in the real world"
--Richard Dawkins, "The Selfish Gene"

"It is the mind which creates the world about us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours."
-George Gissing

"Without a firm idea of himself and the purpose of his life, man cannot live, and would sooner destroy himself than remain on earth, even if he was surrounded by bread."
--Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Re: Anyone notice the stedy decline in the quality and inteligence of the posts around here? [Re: Kremlin]
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Yeah, there will always be the 'old days' which seemed to be better.


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Re: Anyone notice the stedy decline in the quality and inteligence of the posts around here? [Re: DMTelepath]
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Quote:
You must be in a really unique situation if its not covered (or close enough that you can use your brain to put the pieces together)


although i do somewhat agree with you and all others that say teh thing. the subjects that this site cover maybe shouldnt require geussing. it could be potentially fatal for a "newbie" to peice together somthing on their own. better safe than sorry. id rather have a bunch of people calling me a moron and get my answer(s) than od or some shit. i think this site is in general pretty good towards teh stupid questions. god knows ive asked my fair share of mindless questions...havnt been flamed either.

anyway ya i do agree a lot can be aswered by searching but in fairness the search here is kinda hard to use. just involves lots of reading, which is a good thing. so ya searches are good but i dont think people should be afraid to post because it may have been asked again.


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Re: Anyone notice the stedy decline in the quality and inteligence of the posts around here? [Re: gdman]
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There was a suggestion in WAF to have an "Introduction" forum for newbies to introduce themselves. I've seen this on other message boards, and it sounds like a great idea. It will allow us to weed out the trolls and puppets, so that way both the Pub and OTD get higher-quality posts. If this idea goes through, I'd like to be the first to volunteer to mod such a forum. I think I could deal with n00bs pretty fairly.


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Re: Anyone notice the stedy decline in the quality and inteligence of the posts around here? [Re: silversoul7]
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Lol, i've seen that before to. It always eluded me why they'd have an introduction forum, but this is a good use for one. I never stopped in those forums to say hi, it's odd making an introduction in a forum that is full of n00bs. Hardly anybody would stop in to say hi i bet. Sorry, i'm not against the idea at all, it would just be weird.


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Re: Anyone notice the stedy decline in the quality and inteligence of the posts around here? [Re: silversoul7]
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silversoul7 said:
There was a suggestion in WAF to have an "Introduction" forum for newbies to introduce themselves. I've seen this on other message boards, and it sounds like a great idea. It will allow us to weed out the trolls and puppets, so that way both the Pub and OTD get higher-quality posts. If this idea goes through, I'd like to be the first to volunteer to mod such a forum. I think I could deal with n00bs pretty fairly.



I agree. Although I am a n00b I agree this should be a forum and that n00bs must introduce themselves and post in this forum for no less than 20 days. Then after the trial period have access to everything but market place and ODD. Then have access when they have no less than 50 posts and no less than 35 days on the boards. I Personally would have still stayed and stuck it out in the introduction forum because I love it here. I spend a good amount of my day here i.e. work, home, school (no not high school) etc. etc. I actually have missed 1 or 2 classes because I lost track of time on this forum :oops:

Anyway I am just a n00b and my opinion doesn't count for much around here. So take it as you wish.


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Re: Anyone notice the stedy decline in the quality and inteligence of the posts around here? [Re: JettaJay]
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Your opinion counts just as much as an older member, we are equals. It's just some opinions aren't well thought out :p I'm new to the boards, but don't consider myself a 'n00b', and think i have some good info to share and recieve.


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Re: Anyone notice the stedy decline in the quality and inteligence of the posts around here? [Re: DMTelepath]
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steady


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Re: Anyone notice the stedy decline in the quality and inteligence of the posts around here? [Re: gdman]
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gdman said:
The title speaks for itself, for example I was reading a thread in General questions, and I forgot I was in the shroomery, same deal with ODD. Don't get me started about the pub, it just makes me sad how it seems the shroomery is cahnging, and not for the better :frown:.


Come back to OTD,top quality posts there. Check out my "what i made tonight thread".


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