Having been a member and regular poster for more years than I care to think about, it has been everything that Fire said. Even when it really was Gardener's World and part of the BBC, there were people who took offence at something and left. Sad, but there it is. You cannot get rid of me that easily.
It's just a pity that there's a significant minority who want it dumbed down to blandness
Ok. Can you provide an example of how gardening advice might be "dumbed down"? Or should I perhaps say give us an example of the sort of gardening subjects that are candidates for such editing?
Clay soil - Cheshire/Derbyshire border. I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
It's just a pity that there's a significant minority who want it dumbed down to blandness
Ok. Can you provide an example of how gardening advice might be "dumbed down"? Or should I perhaps say give us an example of the sort of gardening subjects that are candidates for such editing?
the whole forum is being dumbed down, not gardening advice, even though a lot of that is total tosh.
All this silly drama is so cringe worthy. It's a gardening forum nothing dumbed down by being exactly that. I feel the only way forward is to mute all those who feel somehow are being restricted. At the end of it, being able to post here is a privilege and not a right, and having house rules isn't restrictive in any way, just how life is.
Agreed @fire the forum has been very useful and is indeed a great conversational reference point for a lot of people. Love checking in every day to see if I can contribute in any way and seeing what's being talked about.
What I don't want is to be seeing people full of themselves parading like peacocks for attention. Hopefully they will be tired and leave and we can just talk about relevant subjects that are focused on gardening and the natural world.
What I don't want is to be seeing people full of themselves parading like peacocks for attention. Hopefully they will be tired and leave and we can just talk about relevant subjects that are focused on gardening and the natural world.
talk of " the natural world" can be described as political if one mentions " climate change"
I've been here nigh on 20 years, almost as long as Palustris, and have seen the forum go thru many changes brought about by simple change of management and/or software that drives the forum but sometimes the result of misbehaviour in certain quarters leading to new rules. There is always uproar and some leave for good personal reasons, others in umbrage who go off and start a new forum.
The hard core of these boards is the exchange of knowledge, experience and opinions about how, when, where and what to grow/sow/prune/care for plants and that will always have value. here is a huge wealtth of experience being shared here and plenty of opportunity to help and also learn.
It seems we now live in a world were intolerance towards persons or communities who have different views, different beliefs, different cultures is so great we have to limit the scope of discussions on a gardening board for fear of causing offence or incurring legal liabilities. I don't agree with it but I understand the recent changes in policy and see no point in complaining. Using these boards is a privilege, not a right.
Being a gardening community we like to chat over the garden fence about anything and everything. Unfortunately some people here forget their manners and can be so rude, offensive and insensitive to others that some topics now have to be banned. Think on.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
What I like about this forum, in contrast to so many others, is that people take the trouble to express themselves in full, rounded sentences. There are precious few faddish abbreviations accompanied by a confetti of exclamation marks.
I appreciate that as longer posts allow for more detail and nuanced arguments.
Why can’t a group of people who came together through gardening, chat about other things in their day to day lives. Fine, scrap the politics thread if we must, although it has survived happily through many iterations of this forum, but what business is it of interfering busybodies to stop us having a chat about other things we are up to.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
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Ok. Can you provide an example of how gardening advice might be "dumbed down"? Or should I perhaps say give us an example of the sort of gardening subjects that are candidates for such editing?
I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
Agreed @fire the forum has been very useful and is indeed a great conversational reference point for a lot of people. Love checking in every day to see if I can contribute in any way and seeing what's being talked about.
What I don't want is to be seeing people full of themselves parading like peacocks for attention. Hopefully they will be tired and leave and we can just talk about relevant subjects that are focused on gardening and the natural world.
I will say I do kind of wish this was a forum JUST for gardening chat. There are plenty of other platforms for discussing everything else.
The hard core of these boards is the exchange of knowledge, experience and opinions about how, when, where and what to grow/sow/prune/care for plants and that will always have value. here is a huge wealtth of experience being shared here and plenty of opportunity to help and also learn.
It seems we now live in a world were intolerance towards persons or communities who have different views, different beliefs, different cultures is so great we have to limit the scope of discussions on a gardening board for fear of causing offence or incurring legal liabilities. I don't agree with it but I understand the recent changes in policy and see no point in complaining. Using these boards is a privilege, not a right.
Being a gardening community we like to chat over the garden fence about anything and everything. Unfortunately some people here forget their manners and can be so rude, offensive and insensitive to others that some topics now have to be banned. Think on.
What I like about this forum, in contrast to so many others, is that people take the trouble to express themselves in full, rounded sentences. There are precious few faddish abbreviations accompanied by a confetti of exclamation marks.
Thank you.
Fine, scrap the politics thread if we must, although it has survived happily through many iterations of this forum, but what business is it of interfering busybodies to stop us having a chat about other things we are up to.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border