what is with riu

I try and help where I can, but the blatant "I just want to be told what to do, without actually learning anything for myself" type questions I tend to graze over and ignore.

Alot of probs can be solved by just doin a little research,All i have to say is newbies do some research and then start to grow, Think of it like this u never test and then study right,So why do i see some many newbies doing just that!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I belong to a forum that is supposed to be a peer support forum for gastroenterology problems. Instead of peer support it has deteriorated into one forum mod trying to answer the questions of a constant stream of people who pass through, ask a few questions, and leave without ever becoming a part of the community. Hence, there is no community. I'd hate to see that happen here. I know some forums where you have to be registered for 10 days or 30 days before you can make a post. I might be in favor of that.

i second that forsure. someone ask fdd or potroast. illegal i know u got pull.

growman09 said:

i dont understand this forum lately you see someone post a question or ask for a look at thier op and they get no response or get ridiculed by some people but then you see someone post in the mj growing forum about getting busted and he gets several pages of posters it seems alot of people dont want to help but just read gossip and also why is the only people that rep people are the ones that thier rep dont count? i not tryin to cry or anything i just have noticed this lately

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I think you got a lot of stuck up people who have forgotten, that repetition is what created the web, if someone ask a question a million times it should be answered a million times because thats what create evolution, and to forget that is to be old. A lot of these growers are old, played out, something like a old rock band, that hate a new school sound, Hey man keep asking your questions and even go to new sites and ask that same stupid question, questions is what keep society new. There are new upstart forums all the time search them out.
The same question is always welcome by good souls, but haters are just part of life.

I've seen good helpful responses, and I've seen crappy responses. Some people just never learned "if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all."

I just try to help, even if not for the person who asked the question, for the trolls who just search for information and expect that a thread with an explanative title would have an answer contained within.

I was really hopeful that the thread somethin like :what human food can be used for ferts: would have good information, but it just degraded to people telling the guy he's too cheap to grow. So sad... stoners are supposed to be MacGuyvers.

OP, just think of RIU as a good sized city. With any large group of people, you're gonna have good folks and bad, helpful folks and ignorant, peaceful folks and assholes. Go to the same place in a city every day, and there will be a different group of people there every time.

GidgetGrows said:

I was really hopeful that the thread somethin like :what human food can be used for ferts: would have good information, but it just degraded to people telling the guy he's too cheap to grow. So sad... stoners are supposed to be MacGuyvers.

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I have no pity for that person. I was one of the first few to post - I meant my post to be helpful, giving him a cheap alternative to the many varied expensive nutes, commonly preferred here - and he basically called me (and a couple others)ignorant (and a few other choice words) for not telling him exactly what he wanted to hear. That's why it went to hell.

GidgetGrows said:

I've seen good helpful responses, and I've seen crappy responses. Some people just never learned "if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all."

I just try to help, even if not for the person who asked the question, for the trolls who just search for information and expect that a thread with an explanative title would have an answer contained within.

I was really hopeful that the thread somethin like :what human food can be used for ferts: would have good information, but it just degraded to people telling the guy he's too cheap to grow. So sad... stoners are supposed to be MacGuyvers.

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Uhhh, you do realize this is the internet....right?

ive been on RIU for awhile and the sites changed alot. believe it

Yeah, but like I said, I didn't do it for him.

And WOAH!! This is the internet?!?!? I thought it was the Matrix! kiss-ass

And it will change again.....

I won't help a lot of the time because 1. I'm still a newbie (only on my second grow). And 2. I've put in hundreds of hours of research to be able to grow, so when somebody comes in here with a question that shows that they haven't put in the effort to do any research - why the fuck should I tell them?

Do your fucking research, you lazy cunts!

growman09 said:

i dont understand this forum lately you see someone post a question or ask for a look at thier op and they get no response or get ridiculed by some people but then you see someone post in the mj growing forum about getting busted and he gets several pages of posters it seems alot of people dont want to help but just read gossip and also why is the only people that rep people are the ones that thier rep dont count? i not tryin to cry or anything i just have noticed this lately

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thats what happens on the web. thats why you put on the rain boots cuz shit flies around here some times.

Illegal Smile said:

It does get weary answering the same posts over and over. Especially ones like "I want to grow some pot. Tell me everything I need to know."

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awe you guys are growing pot im telling.
i thought we all were growing tomatoes.
no wonder why mine tasted funny even with salt.lol

Airwave said:

I won't help a lot of the time because 1. I'm still a newbie (only on my second grow). And 2. I've put in hundreds of hours of research to be able to grow, so when somebody comes in here with a question that shows that they haven't put in the effort to do any research - why the fuck should I tell them?

Do your fucking research, you lazy cunts!

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sometimes after i research i still ask the ? just to see if i get a different answer or some times info changes. but for the most part a lot of answers are there.
hey does any one know do you need water to grow pot ? lol another thing is it would be nice if you could type in to search, cause on your first grow if something starts to go wrong you freak out and think that you just dont have time to look but i learned you do have time to look.

bigdaddy86 said:

sometimes after i research i still ask the ? just to see if i get a different answer or some times info changes. but for the most part a lot of answers are there.
hey does any one know do you need water to grow pot ? lol another thing is it would be nice if you could type in to search, cause on your first grow if something starts to go wrong you freak out and think that you just dont have time to look but i learned you do have time to look.

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Sure. You can do years worth of research and still have questions that need answering, or maybe interested in other's opinions. There's a lot of info out there and there is such a thing as information overload, then on top of that you have misinformation. I understand that, I really do. But some times, with the questions posed, it's so fucking obvious that they haven't bothered with any research.

The search function is a bitch. Mainly because so many people in here can't spell for shit and won't use software like FireFox Dictionary to correct their spelling. So many threads won't turn up in the search results because the fucking idiot that made the thread didn't make sure to correct his spelling.

Use this! https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:3

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Sure. You can do years worth of research and still have questions that need answering, or maybe interested in other's opinions. There's a lot of info out there and there is such a thing as information overload, then on top of that you have misinformation. I understand that, I really do. But some times, with the questions posed, it's so fucking obvious that they haven't bothered with any research.

The search function is a bitch. Mainly because so many people in here can't spell for shit and won't use software like FireFox Dictionary to correct their spelling. So many threads won't turn up in the search results because the fucking idiot that made the thread didn't make sure to correct his spelling.

Use this! https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:3

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If you use google and simply add RIU to your search terms it WILL find the threads, I do it all the time

But I too have seen RIU change, it is a different place now compared to when I first joined, a lot of folks left Roseman, Mammoth great growers with good info always helping

But I have also seen other good growers take thier place

Folks now want instant gratification and are used to it because of how things have evolved, they get upset when it is not there

Then you have the problem of so many different ways to skin a cat with so many different opinions on which way is best or right, it does cause info overload and confuses most folks

There is no way to "fix" it it is what it is???

It looks like we've got two camps here. The reasonable camp that expects people to put some effort into solving their problems, and the babysitters who believe that you should spoon feed people the information they want. I belong firmly in the former camp. If somebody asks a question that's answered in a sticky, I'm not answering it. If it's clear they haven't made any attempt to find the answer before posting, I'm not answering it. If the person doesn't bother to make their thread at least look presentable, I'm not answering it (I'm talking about the really bad ones, not people who use English as a second language). My time is just as valuable as your time, and if you're not going to put in your own time to solve your problem, I'm not spending my time to help you.

I'm a noob. I've done it all. Read books, checked for answers to questions on the internet, and also asked the dumbest fucking questions on RIU. but remember, like I think DoeEyed said in an earlier post, it's like a city. You have different levels of growers, IQ, and age. I'm also believing that there are more and more of us everyday. More so now than ever before, so of course they're going to be elementary questions. and elementary people. I try and answer some of the dumb questions posted a million times over to other noobs just from advce i've gotten off of RIU. So as frustrating as it is, Teachers keep on teaching.