Grower's Questions Question

Anyone can join, does not matter of the experiences you have, the decision is up to the inquirer of said question. One thing I have noticed with yourself is that you say your being helpful but it comes off as belittling and rude, and you not always right but you write like you have providence on the subject. The proveb "there's more than one way to skin a cat" or the more PC version "there's more than one way to cook an egg" And "you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar" are key here and great examples. translation: A problem generally has more than one solution; there is more than one way to achieve a goal. & it is more effective to be polite and flattering than to be hostile or demanding. Maybe there is some disconnect between the words your type and the intent of the message you want to send. If your end goal is to clear up any misconceptions you feel are in error then open a conversation and provide your reason with out being outlandish. Slide into their DM's and problem solve. The best thing I learned from this site is I'm not always right and I have space to learn and grow. End of the day, its free advice, on a free site. The person asking the questions should look into what they feel its right or not, its up to them to do their own research and come to the conclusion. Best Of Luck! ***disclaimer, multiple people are answering all questions as there is a contest called GOTM, when a user is selected as the answer they get a point. Please see the contest page for information regarding the details: growdiaries.com/giveaways/GotM-August-2022 Please note, when you reply to anything on the questions part of Growdiaries website, no one will be notified of this. Not even if you use a "@" tag in their name. Best to reach out to them in DM using your inbox, it can be found in the bottom right hand corner of the site. It's the small paper airplane button, it will be highlighted green if you have new messages***

Well, to be honest, there have been a couple of them... I think if folks really want to help the growers asking questions, and they disagree with an answer that's been given, instead of disparaging the other answer they should simply state their point of view, their advice... It's really all in how you word thinigs... because there is rarely ONE answer to a question... But listen, if you really want to help growers, then help them and answer their questions! You can always withdraw from the competition if you find yourself actually entered... at this point, though, no one has selected one of your answers as the one they think is the right one and the advice they're going to follow... so you're not in the competition... and it ends on the 31st anyway... so please, come respectfully answer some growers questions!

You’ve been talking a lot of shit on other questions too guy. Far from trying to calm things down.

It wasn't anything nasty, let me be clear about that, I try to calm things down. One user commented that it gets heated because of the contest. I pointed out that I'm not in it, I'm just trying to help. A different user commented that the point of answering these questions IS the contest. I'd hope the purpose would be to help each other, you know, community. But if it is the contest, mercenary, I'll stay out. First, I'd not want to interfere with someone trying to win something I've no interest in. Second, I'd prefer to stay away discussions driven by gain. Not my thing.

I'd be interested, btw, to know what the comment was that led you to that erroneous belief... I'm sorry someone would say ANYTHING that would prevent you from answering questions...

No, you're completely wrong about that, @greatwolf! Everybody who is on GD is allowed to answer questions!! EVERYBODY!!! And what's really odd is that you don't even have to sign up for this particular contest... you are automatically entered into it if you answer a question that is linked to a diary and your answer is chosen by the inquirer... I answered questions for months before I realized I was actually IN the contest! So please, answer away!!