Another site needed

[dissident]

I agree with LW to an extent, the cannabis forum is glaringly out of place here.  I think I will still lurk around here, however.  Just because I don't like one room of the house doesn't mean its not home.

[nitroburn]

stop talking like the cannabis forum still exists

it existed for all of a couple hours till the mistake and misunderstanding was fixed. Well, the mistake was fixed anyways maybe not the misunderstanding.

[dissident]

my mistake, I didn't even look

[Stonehenge]

I agree with no cannabis forum. If someone wants to talk about it in a non incriminating way, there are forums already here to do it in. As for talking about cultivation, I think that's a mistake. It would be talking about an ongoing felony for one thing. As has been said, it would draw a lot of unwanted attention. We do not want to be known as just another pot site. There are lots of places that do that very thing already.

[nitroburn]

is marijuana that important that it somehow devalues all importance of everything around it? 1 forum regarding mj among 20 forums, that does not 'another pot site' make. And as for attention, overgrow is not going to disappear and I doubt people would start thinking of SPF as, "that place with the marijuana forum".

but, that said, im not calling for it back with all this opposition. makes me feel like i'm going to be demanded to sit at the back of the bus. Even before the forum i got a pm asking if I even cared about spiritplants or if I was just a pothead.

we here are obviously not immune to stereotypes.

Bet people saw the marijuana forum and imagined only posts on consumption and making bongs. At least thats seems to be what everyone was expecting. Not seeming to stop and concider others spiritual beliefs and how marijuana is a spiritplant to many people. If you tie in the spirituality and enlightenment with the marijuana it promotes a seriousness on the subject, not just consumption oriented posts.

[cenacle]

marijuana is for many a spiritplant, and this has been true in many cultures for thousands of years...while the vocal consensus here for the time being precludes an mj forum, this does not mean that mj is not a serious matter for many, and will be discussed here as elsewhere with complete legitimacy...

[Bushpig]

My aim is to see SPF have the forums it had before the collapse, I have no objections to the new 'dream' forum.  As far as the Cannabis forum and the 'experience ' forum i am easy either way.  What dissapoints me is when something doesn't go someones way they threaten to uproot and leave, air enough, dont disrespect our efforts though.



Boooosh

[cenacle]

the forums now more conform to the old list...hopefully people will see things getting to be more familiar and friendly to their tastes as time goes on...

[CJ]

It should not be going this way. Jrl speaks of landing on an island. Lucky that island was there,I truly do apprciatte.

     Without going into detail,I am a little diispointed in some tone around here. Points could of been gotten accross,...well mabe someone had a bad day.  but it sure wasn`t what I was reading at first.I Still think highly of LW and,in essence, hes prolly generally right,about the issues...

     About the people, well,I couldn`t begin to speak, without first saying thanks. Thats where I fall on the matter.

     For the edit,I do want to do add this;as I said in another post,other sites have mod/amin forums,sometimes scheduled  in real time so all can be 'there'. There`s a sense in this ,it`s just not decision making in another'world'

      A little clue,something has the capacity to be an excluive club. Not that there have not been cliques before. But with enough people and content,I personally always could work around that,lots of loners like me, and/or just good people. SPF was, and still is, that big.

[Jacko]

LW, I hope you're still checking in ... if it makes any difference, I stopped in chat a couple nights ago and discussed some of the problems with SPF before the shut down some of the things that could be done with the new site and all that.  One thing Cassie said over and over again was that we really need to go over all these things in the forums.  It's a lot easier to dialogue, shoot the shit and bounce off ideas in a one on one, or one on 20 type situation in chat, very dynamic and conductive to a flow of ideas.   I don't seen anything remotely like the power grab and imposition that characterized the actions at Edot that led to the rise of SPF, I see some folks who've been very active in the site and were willing and able to put the time in to bring this together and started doing something.  

They're listening, they're hoping to bring us together and they're working on it ... from everything I can tell so far.  They've also got people like me suggesting that perhaps the stagnation at SPF (you've got to admit that it's been a hell of a lot less lively and a hell of a lot less innovative and informative over the last year or two ) was due to folks moving onto other sites that are a little less restrictive with discussion of illicit activites.  I know I've recently stumbled into a site or two where I finally started learning a shit load of interesting information, rather being one of the people answering basic cultivation and preparation questions again and again.  I hear your points though and they've got merit.  It's a discussion worth having though without just abandoning what's already been put together.  That said, if you simply want to put together another site by all means do so, but there's no reason to set it up as divisively as you've started out.

I'm excited to see what will become of this.  Though don't have anywhere near the time needed to really be an active participant.

[loki]

conforms...

[nitroburn]

CJ: "other sites have mod/admin forums"

we have those too. mods and admins can see them.