As an experienced grower, why not jump in and correct them or offer different advice that will work. It's like with anything, if you don't know you are wrong, you will continue to do things wrong until someone tells you or shows you a different way. Or just do things the way you were taught. We are all after the same thing here, lets help everyone get to it.

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Chiceh
Peace, Love & Weed

Explain your own POV(offer links if deemed appropriate). Openly disagree without resulting to personal attacks and you'll be thanked profusely.

I've also seem numerous types of "your plant is a goner" posts, when usually the plant will recover in no time.

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Why people believe strange things: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8T_jw...eature=channel

I absolutely agree. I'm usually somebody who has no problem what soever with sitting down and helping out anybody with any advice that i think im qualified to give, it was just that day when i was going through some posts and i saw that, i just didn't get what the hell was going through their heads, lol. I've honestly never seen anybody give any advice like that to somebody in a similar situation before, so it just kinda dumbfounded me. Sorry if i came off as sounding like im fed up with all of the nonsense, cuz while in truth, people should do research at length before delving into growing seriously, the reality is that hardly anybody really does when theyre just starting out. Hell, even im guilty of the same thing for my first month of growing, lol.

So yeah, i hope you guys dont think im some mindless dickhead who's flown off the reservation or anything, i'm doin my best to try and prove quite the opposite, lol

-K1.

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People can easily click on links to show that they've "toured" the site and FAQ, etc., without ever reading a word of any of it. Do we read the entire "terms of licensing" every time we install programs onto our computers, or do we just click "I Agree" and get it done? Same goes for TOS agreements on web sites; how many people actually read all of that? Extremely few.

People who are too lazy to research will remain as such; they'll just click whatever links they need in order to be able to post.

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I don't need gold at the end of the rainbow. I found the pot!
MMJ Debate with a Know-It-All Cop Prop 215 Grow 1.2

Every forum I know of has the same problem. You can't give a test, it's too easy to cheat. The best solution is a guide for new users that warns them that anybody can be an expert on the internet and to weigh the information you get carefully. Just like in life, don't believe everything you hear.

Have a highly moderated forum, similar to the GROW FAQs, where all posts and threads are subject to 'expert grower' moderation(a, "prove it, or lose it" stance, where posts which can not be confirmed are removed). Where you'd have to be an a list to post there at all(perhaps a weighting of reputation and post count).

Where the forum would be more about discussion, furthering cannabis horticulture as a field, and less about 'newbie Q&A'. A master reference for anything cannabis, of sorts.

Instead of a static, monolithic source such as the current Grow FAQs, it'd be dynamic and evolving. Allowing multiple, more diverse sources of information to reach unity.

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Why people believe strange things: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8T_jw...eature=channel

i've been given plenty of bad advice, did it ever get me?
a few times, but now when i take advice on my grow, i
make sure it is proven.
no more boric acid to get rid of bugs for me...........killed
my whole crop

so i guess what i am saying is if folks would take the
time to verify growing advice. we wouldn't need bad
advice police.

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Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it....

What if we implemented something like a Quiz upon gaining membership to RIU?

Yeah there should be some type of quiz you can take every so often and have your score shown in your profile if you want o keep it private!

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i once knew a chick that could puff a joint or cig with her cooch and even suck up water when she was in the bath.
lol she was such a slut

There are very experienced, quality growers who disagree on many subjects.

Who is to say if it works for them, but not you that it is wrong?

There are lots of ways to grow, just research before you commit your grow to someone else's opinion.

why do people always tryn make "systems" to go thru...ssystems were made to rule all us xperianced growers will "rule" over the ones here for imans help...

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