You can’t talk in the chat room or smokers lounge? You need a free seeds/trading post thread for that? Again… Devil’s advocate. Good grief
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You forgot the “condescending” part before “devils advocate”.
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Hey everyone!!! Yeti got the last word in! Yay for winning and taking everything personal!! Still doesn’t clear up the off topic of 99% of this thread.
By the way @bassman5420 that should go into the Smoker’s Lounge category. That’s where “Chat” is. I moved it there so it’s clear to other member’s.
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No, that’s not condescending at all either…
sheesh.
It got really sad in here all of a sudden. Who started this nonsense?
Gonna find somewhere to hide until all of this blows over.
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Well I suppose I should chime in for better or worse here. This thread has become the water cooler thread. Personally I am fine with that but is seems to be a real point of contention for some. I see the points and just don’t agree with all of them. Like for example people just bantering for pips. I have been called out many times now for having too many little green dots beside my name. This always made me scratch my head as I could not give a rats ass about little green dots. Apparently these come from being active and getting likes but really serve no purpose to me. If you can get 100 pips beside you name you know what you got, 100 green dots that serve no purpose.
Now I saw this coming, I am pretty sure I tried to point people to the chat thread a couple times yesterday. I have only done 1 giveaway in the last 2 weeks just to slow some stuff down and yes, I have been given a hard time for too many giveaways. I have been told I have ruined OG. I have been told I brought all my friends here from RIU to give me likes. I find all that gibberish to just be Ludacris. There is only a couple people here I know from RIU and that’s it.
Now I do think it is in all our best interests to slow the chit chat here. We have a chat thread we should be using for general banter. That said there will always be some chat going on in this thread. I feel it is important that people be free to chat but if that is the only thing going on why not do it in the chat thread. Than when seeds come up people can come, chat and get those seeds. When the giving is done the chat can go back to the chat page. Problem is it’s difficult to say to folks having a conversation to all of a sudden change threads to continue talking. We really need to find a balance here for all. Doesn’t matter if we all agree but compromises to make all happy are not necessarily a bad thing.
Now since I joined OG I have been one of the most active members here, there is no arguing that. I have made several threads, done a seed run for OG, done a separate grow log and created multiple threads that were enjoyed by many. So it is pretty clear to me that it’s not just about free seeds. The only reason I am not growing now is so I could have a couple months of not worrying about plants and enjoy some summer time with my wife and kids. My next grow, which will be the third documented on OG, will go live around the second week of Sept, and will be a BOG run. Likely more than one strain with some seeds being created for the community.
Ok so my rant is over. To summarize while I don’t really agree with changing one of the most fun and visited threads on the site, it is a good idea that we take into account not all are happy with it and it does go against the purpose of the thread. We should be concise of these opposing views and try to accommodate them. If that means a shift to the chat thread for our banter than so be it. It won’t really affect our chatting but will make those not happy feel better. It’s a compromise that seems worth it to me.
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So let’s just add ‘water cooler’ to the thread title. Seems obvious. 
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isn’t this one closed!? Dibs!
What makes zero sense to me is people saying they want to give seeds to their friends. If you want to do that, why not give them away on your own grow logs from time to time? I don’t understand needing a water cooler if you just want to give away seeds. That way you know the people you are giving to like you want. If you just want to make friends, chat away in the chat thread and pm the “friends” you want to give seeds to. I don’t understand the hubbub over keeping shit on topic so it’s easier for people the way it’s intended. Everything short is just playing Devil’s Advocate because you want things your way and dont want to follow the rules and the format of the site. Can’t understand why anyone would take that personal. Apparently, I’m condescending because I would like info organized and easily searchable for educational purposes.
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Let’s just stop and regroup ,this back and forth is the same thing being complained about.
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Please, no mas.
This is what got us shut down on friday.
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i haven’t been on OG in a month or two and i come back to see this. its gone pretty downhill comparing it to the last time i saw it.
edit: i dont mean the whole site just this thread
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Come on folks, everyone got a chance to say their piece here. The back and forth is pointless. @bassman5420 made a new thread for the sole purpose of giving out seeds and chatting. Free Seeds, Chat and Good Times! Let’s use it. Than this thread can go back to it’s purpose although will likely get little traffic with folks using the new one. If moving to the new thread makes some happy than let’s just do it. @Meesh makes a valid point about this thread not being used for it’s purpose and we have a simple fix for that. Both sides of this discussion can have their goals met easily so why not just go that direction.
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Actually, that’s a friend of mine for years now and he did respond via pm. Stay in your lane. Shit starter. Especially when you don’t have a clue what you are talking about.
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First person to offer me free seeds gets a thank you!
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First one here I think lol. I plan on giving something away soon. Gotta check and see what I have. I’m running low but should be back on top in a couple months
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