mikethecactusguy wrote: ↑Thu Apr 21, 2022 1:39 pm
Hi All
It's a relief to have CactiGuide up and running again. I was growing more and more frustrated with all the Facebook Groups. To be able to have an intelligent conversation with our resident long time experts is a pleasure. At the same time there is a noticeable absence of many of the newer members that had been working their way up the ladder. I wonder what happened to those.
Mike M
Mikethecactusguy; I fully agree with your first sentence!
Regarding the absence of the newer members , they may have had the same thoughts as me ( and as you mentions in your third sentence) ? They may feel they don’t have enough experience and knowledge to participate in an intelligent conversation, lacking the already mentioned expertice.
I have written loads of post in my head, who never came ‘alive’ on the forum ( some may be grateful for this..
) thinking that these subjects/thoughts wouldn’t be of any interest for long time growers.
You may remember commenting on the link guide on my blog here, that I should post the links directly on the forum? The real reason ( yes I admit I wasn’t absolutely honest in my answer to you) I don’t do it, is the ‘fear’ that other members would find them less than interesting and just filling the forum with boring stuff/ ‘we already know that..’ . So I ‘hide’ them on my blog, to not annoy anyone.
Speaking for my self only, I have not lost interest in cacti, not at all ! , I am just trying to not take up to much ‘space’ on the forum.