you know i'm trying to leave this one alone. it'll run out of my blood soon i hope but here's a counterpoint. that's the unwelcoming, hostile, belligerent, schoolyard clique. i'm 41 yrs old so no you haven't been on mj sites longer than i've been alive. it's so easy when cooperation fails to turn to hostility. then surprise when hostility is met with hostility and it degrades to "i'm l33t scrub stfu." i've been on forums as long as they've been around. original dial-up telnet bulletin boards on i386's. it will always be like this.
Ok great than that means you should understand the op's motives for posting the thread a little easier.
I dont know you or your growing skills but here's a scenario i'll pop into your ear,lets say your a stone newb who dont know soil from hash he's so new & he's trying to set up a simple flood & drain hydro system,to experienced growers its a simple pimple but to newbs its rocket science.
So Mr newb posts a thread asking specific questions about setting up his new system,half the posts he gets are one liner posts that dont contain enough info to teach anybody anything,then ya got the post count whores who post nonsense just to be part of the thread.
Next Mr newb has to deal with the jokesters who post pictures of bunny rabbits wearing a pancake on its head or leave some random bs advice steering him in the wrong direction thinking they are funny ,then ya got the people who just started growing & are posting threads asking questions trying to learn to grow, then they spew the advice they were just given 2 days ago in the hydro newbs thread as if its experience they've learned in their own systems .
Now ya got the real growers who post advice based on years of personal experience who take the time to write informative posts with spot on advice , which normally seems complicated to newbs but its the best advice given in the thread.
So now Mr newb has to weed thru all the post whores,the funny guys who think every thread exisists for their entertainment , the off topic thread hijackers who start entire different topics within his thread, the other newbs who know just enough to be dangerous with advice & the real accomplished growers who give explicit advice that will help him for sure.
How is a dead nutts newbie supposed to figure out who's advice to follow , especially when people who havent even smoked their 1st harvest yet are giving advice , wouldnt you prefer any advice given to you to be from somebody with hands on experience with your issue ? Or would advice from a new grower who's repeating what they read in other threads be ok for your grow.
Giving advice should be based on personal experience , never what somebody heard someplace or read in other threads.