How about we slow down, take a deep breath, and let the rest of us catch up with all the changes in this forum. Change is always a stressful event and making this form a constant changing place, makes it very hard for those of us that would like to stay here is our home forum.
I swear, I think the rules change mid grow battle sometimes. Now I see there's a rule for all grow battles that says we get a code but I don't see the code being used in sections like Dinafem so what gives? I don't think we've been corporated the changed we made so far.
My suggestion is quit changing for a little while, let people catch their damn breath.
We also took away every motivation a person has to make a single thread a single Diary and we put everything into these grow battle Diaries and honestly I just don't believe in the long run that's best for the people on this thread. It may be best for your advertisers if they're lucky enough to be in one of the bigger grow battle threads but if they get stuck in one of those things where nobody ever reads them hey what good is it?
I said lots of times, we need plant of the month and Bud of the month competitions back. Those are Staples of every weed forum and yeah you may feel like they don't do much but honestly they bring people in. They allow folks that don't have the time to post in a grow battle and update constantly a chance to pick out a good plant that they like and put it in a competition. It also motivates them to put in Diaries and I think single Diaries really help quite a bit. At least it's a good way for people to establish friendships and keep those friendships going.
It would be nice if there was an industrial psychologist on board, developers really don't necessarily understand anything about social networking. A smile Emoji is not a smile. If we're going to have real people getting together and making a great place, we need to encourage individual Diaries. Not just for those that are looking for help and wanting to learn, but for the more experienced Growers to display their skills and techniques. I see that kind of stuff slowly stopping on this forum.
This forum may be a great place once it settles down, but right now it's a stressful place to be. When everything changes and rules change Midstream it makes it really difficult to keep up. And honestly, who really has the time to keep up with constant changes that are made just for changes sake.
Or maybe the future will simply be a site full of sponsors, and no real new people coming in. Or just the constant flow through as they pass through and leave when the changes become too severe
I would be willing to run a plant of the month competition or a bud of the month comp if it's a staffing problem.
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