Growmau5
Well-Known Member
Forums > The Grow Room > Indoor Growing > LED and other Lighting is where you go to learn the REAL science and techniques to employ the most efficient/effective grow room lighting solutions on earth.
Visiting other similar forums, you quickly realize that no other website compares. These other discussion forums have infrequent posts, out-dated techniques, and are generally filled with anecdotal reports such as "my buddy rocks BlueCat 5000s and he grows fire"
Over the past year, this subforum has nearly doubled in the quantity of discussions from 125,000 to 209,000. What once contained half the amount of interest and discussion as the CFL/Fluorescent Lighting subforum will quickly dwarf it. Additionally, with many city & state legislatures attempting to pass laws banning HID lighting for grow operations, the information contained here will become increasingly valuable. Particularly the threads started by Stardustsailor and others.
But there is a systemic problem... Many of the people that were doing the high level work , testing and discussion have disappeared from this sub forum. Perhaps they grew tired of talking about LEDs, or perhaps their knowledge on the topics reached a level that there was no one here to learn from.
Maybe they grew tired of taking the time to start a thread on an advanced topic, citing their research, graphs, spreadsheets, & peer reviewed data, only to have the thread buried by "where does this wire go" questions.
So what is my point, or is this just a droning manifesto?
Forums like this need to keep their users happy, and engaged so that they can present user traffic data to potential advertisers and sell banners. It is an ecosystem. This ecosystem needs to support the small fish with potentiometer questions, as well as the bigger fish that want to discuss light quanta.
But an ecosystem needs fish of all sizes or it dies. And we are getting dangerously low on big fish.
High level discussion that starts out informative and interesting has been getting clobbered by pages and pages of off topic posts, side conversations, and a gratuitous amount of 80s YouTube songs. I like to have fun and enjoy these pages as much as the next guy. But there is a place for it. or is there?
I am calling for more support from the administrators of this forum. We need a moderator(s) here, We need stickies of some of the most valuable threads that get lost beneath hundreds of "what does this wire do" threads. @sunni we need some kind of engagement, or this subforum will be left for dead.
Visiting other similar forums, you quickly realize that no other website compares. These other discussion forums have infrequent posts, out-dated techniques, and are generally filled with anecdotal reports such as "my buddy rocks BlueCat 5000s and he grows fire"
Over the past year, this subforum has nearly doubled in the quantity of discussions from 125,000 to 209,000. What once contained half the amount of interest and discussion as the CFL/Fluorescent Lighting subforum will quickly dwarf it. Additionally, with many city & state legislatures attempting to pass laws banning HID lighting for grow operations, the information contained here will become increasingly valuable. Particularly the threads started by Stardustsailor and others.
But there is a systemic problem... Many of the people that were doing the high level work , testing and discussion have disappeared from this sub forum. Perhaps they grew tired of talking about LEDs, or perhaps their knowledge on the topics reached a level that there was no one here to learn from.
Maybe they grew tired of taking the time to start a thread on an advanced topic, citing their research, graphs, spreadsheets, & peer reviewed data, only to have the thread buried by "where does this wire go" questions.
So what is my point, or is this just a droning manifesto?
Forums like this need to keep their users happy, and engaged so that they can present user traffic data to potential advertisers and sell banners. It is an ecosystem. This ecosystem needs to support the small fish with potentiometer questions, as well as the bigger fish that want to discuss light quanta.
But an ecosystem needs fish of all sizes or it dies. And we are getting dangerously low on big fish.
High level discussion that starts out informative and interesting has been getting clobbered by pages and pages of off topic posts, side conversations, and a gratuitous amount of 80s YouTube songs. I like to have fun and enjoy these pages as much as the next guy. But there is a place for it. or is there?
I am calling for more support from the administrators of this forum. We need a moderator(s) here, We need stickies of some of the most valuable threads that get lost beneath hundreds of "what does this wire do" threads. @sunni we need some kind of engagement, or this subforum will be left for dead.
