Cammie @ Hydro-Grow directed me to this site to check it out, like this whole site it was very informative & educational and seemed to flow well, we know what happened and I don't want to re-hash it, I've really come to appreciate GC but as with so much in this not new but becoming legal INDUSTRY the lack of professionalism and ethics from the dispensaries on the street to the carpet bagging Hydro-store owners and now this site, there was what can be considered a terrorist threat in the deleted Led vs. HID thread, the poster thretened to cut her head off & sh** down her neck, and he re-enforced that with he his the kind of person who takes very serious issue when his family is bought into it, re-enforeced with that he wasn't just some web-grower and was capable of doing this, I was very suprised that poster wasn't monitored & sensored from that point on, but he continued to heckle and de-rail the topic for a day or so longer. Probably no great loss for GC or me to un-regs and leave, but the dis-service is to the vendors, I have made contact with and bought several products from vendors I have found through this site, and I've only been here about a month. Not to mention the last message in the deleted thread from the mods was for Hydro-Grow to stop selling there lights here, well they brought me here, I'm traffic, isn't that what any web-site wants? at worst maybe suggesting a vendor membership. I don't know where I'm going with this, I guess I found a really cool site-GC, but I'm just dissapointed in how ignorant & un-proffesional the mods handled & deleted a very good thread. The mods can see I've come here a lot since I registered, but now I really think twice before I click on this site. I know everytime I come here I will remember the Hydro-Grow/ LED vs. HID thread and how the mods handled it. I made my decission on upgrading my membership!
Why didn't you contact me if you had an issue with how something was moderated? There's a thread stuck right here in General Feedback that shows who's in charge of things, who the Super Mods are and who the Mods are and who to contact with issues. I'm not too thrilled with what I've read regarding the thread but I haven't read the actual thread yet so I don't really know what went on. What I do know is that if anyone has an issue with any moderating activites around here, I'm the one to contact and I have no PM's from you. It states in the rules and in various stickies that you should contact me if you're experiencing any issues and you didn't. ***Actually, I just did a search of all reported posts and you've never reported one post. You didn't even report the ones that you're complaining about. Had you reported them, I'd be more understanding of your disappointment right now. Also, advertising isn't allowed here so whoever was selling something here was breaking the rules. We depend on our members to help report posts that are breaking the rules and those that mess with the vibe of the City and we appreciate their help since we can't hit every post that's posted.
I didn't report any issues because Hydro-grow in the thread advised (more than once)she was in contact with mods regarding the issues, I would've and in the future on any issue I will not hesitate to keep contacting you until I recieve a response. I do appreciate you taking the time to respond, but I don't appreciate your response, your attepmt to spin this back on me, when Hydro-Grow who started the thread advised she was in contact with the mods on this, if you want to hide behind the deifinition of rules thats fine, but rules don't always decide the right thing. Maybe you don't care what it looks like, but it looks like you punished the least offending party involved and did'nt penalize the other party.
Well, I just read the first post of that thread and where the mistake was made was letting the thread proceed past the first post. Hydro Grow was advertising his/her website and product here and that's very much against the rules. In the future, you're welcome to send one PM per issue. There's no need in anyone spamming me with PM's over the same issue as indicated. By the way, I don't hide from anything. I take care of everything that I need to and move on. I've dealt with this and am moving on to more important issues. The thread in question was deleted anyway (before this thread), as it should have been, just a little too late. ***Just so everyone will know, we average 10,000-12,000 new posts every day so every post can't be looked at individually. On top of that, we get 800-1000 new threads posted daily. So, we'd much rather receive 50 reports than none when it comes to rules and such being broken in the forums. If you're part of a community, reporting posts that screw with the vibe or break the rules is just part of the responsibility of being part of a community. Thanks to all who do this. Have a great day!!!