LOL, thanks my friend's! I know you've heard the "share" pitch before...I wrote the article for the inagural edition of the Ontario CP Society on that very topic, and it IS a critical topic. You ARE an OCS member aren't you
BTW: when I joined the forum in ...what....2002....time flies...I was offered the Mod position and I refused it. I was drafted anyways, but never really thought of myself as a real Mod. I have never been any different Mod or no, but I figure with TWO SQUARES I better do something quick.....and I need to hear what lies they have been telling about me in the Mod forum.....
I never was the Hammer, and rarely got involved with the banning/flame war thing, leaving that to other guns. I just wanted a place to "preach", and folk to give my plants to. You know I got kicked off of Garden Web for offering free plants? I guess the owner was braindead since a place giving away FREE dog poo would probably get more hits than a Hippie Bhong Club. Man, you MISSED that sheebang! It was all out war!!! Members *here* were going *there* just to get banned, pretty hilarious really. Thought Papa Phill was gonna bust a gasket before it was over. We had to plead with folk to lay off. Our friends are very defensive! Now we're mostly all banned there. (I wonder if they are still around, haven't been back since)
So you see, it's love me or hate me but I sure as frost ain't going away *chortle chortle*
There have been other wars. Some members were big on the idea that we censor things here at whim = which was sheer paranoia nonsense. I remember they were going off how all their faracas was a topic in the MOD forum, as IF....yawn. These guys thought this was THEIR forum so they should be able to do and say ANYTHING they wanted to...kind or unkind, true or false, like it is so often on the CP Listserve or another forum I no longer frequent for similar reasons - too much like Court where it's who you are and not what you do that matters - so I declared myself independent of all that rot. I'm A yankin dundle dundee or something like that....
Here at TF everyone is treated with civility and respect, or else, baby! )This excludes Ozzy, Bugweed, PAK, Andrew, and probably JBL. It includes PhD's, newbies, silly females that can't spell, kids that post 80 pages of word associations (you loved tht didn't you Jimscott!), experts, Dr's, Lawyers, Vampires (we have had a few of em), christians, aethists, prolifers and abortionists, nice guys, spiks, chinks, limeys, frogs, pollacks, krauts, gooks, wops, kikes (If I left you out, sorry!) kings And queens, drunkards, teetotallers, druggies, rappers <gasp> About the only ones not welcome are those who can't accept that moderation is a necessity to deal with human passion when things go too far and those that come to smooze free plants without any posting or contributions other than their "Gimme's". We expect that arguments will arise, and are here to serve the peace.
What?!? My posts makes your head fuzzy? It's because I WRITE man! I also use English....the real honest to God thing. Guess I am old fashioned. They made us learn these things when I was a sprout. I love the written word. I would not want to see our language reduced to nothing, so I try to stretch your greymatter. Hence the fuzz. Or, possibly, something the night before?
BEsides, it feels good to type when my hands aren't too swollen to hit da keys.
D. capensis seed? Put em up on the trade forum, or send them in care the Science teacher of your local grade school so each class member can have some. Make up 30 packets and print out instructions for eAch. Take it as deep as you want....you can fill plastic cups with mix, packet of seed on top, instructions wrapped around the 'pot', seal her all up in plastic wrap. The teach will think you're a hero....and you will be. We need to inspire youth to grow and SHARE these plants. It's a very important thing to teach this... It will be the kids that will carry these plants into the year 3000....or not at all. Bot Gardens aren't going to cut it. Todays Newbies are tomorrows shining CP stars. Suck em in early and get them good and addicted is the way to go!
Well it's time for my rockabye baby pill. G'day to all. see ya around 4.