@nickoslesteros - thank you. It all makes perfect sense now, even to someone like me who doesn’t know my mouse from my mat.
They’ve gathered all our human reactions, replies, conversational quirks, pleasantries and so on and are going to turn “us” into a machine that requires no moderating. Then they’ll shut down the magazine because they won’t need journalists either. Money money money, It’s a rich man’s world.
Yes, in a few days we’ll all be one big bot.
For some reason I can’t get Neil Young’s song Harvest out of my head. As the days fly past will we lose our grasp…
Exactly this. You have worded it perfectly. I know because I have to navigate this world professionally.
It will be a horrible soulless publication and it will fail. Why pay for GW when you can get the same faceless content for free anywhere else?
The help, patience and inspiration I've had from here has been literally priceless. Big business not only uproots physical communities, but even digital ones too.
I've started submitting a few pages to archive.org for preservation, but of course only a tiny proportion of the site. Wishing good luck to those of you trying to save more.
Really disappointed to see this. Found the forum extremely useful as a fledgling gardener and I'm a regular visitor to the search function. Have found answers to a lot of my questions without even having to post.
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It will be a horrible soulless publication and it will fail. Why pay for GW when you can get the same faceless content for free anywhere else?
The help, patience and inspiration I've had from here has been literally priceless. Big business not only uproots physical communities, but even digital ones too.
Steve Harley's died so I'll be spending the rest of the day crying.
Bye everyone
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Such a pity.
If you are on facebook, you say goodbye to your forum hosts here: https://www.facebook.com/GWmagazine/?locale=en_GB
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