The reason I prefer this site to the "other" one,..is because it feels like on here there is more openess to new ideas.
I've seen, and taken part in a few threads over there where someone has come up with an idea, or made a suggestion, only to be poo poo'd and dismissed by a long term member (or a mod in one case I read).
For example someone will raise a question and make suggestions,....someone will come along and say.."No, that isn't possible, forget it,..some doctor said it's impossible".
On this site though, someone will raise a question, suggest something,..and people will come along and say,.."Really?...Tell me more, I'm interested"
That's what I like....more openess to ideas.
If you just slam an idea down straight away and nip it in the bud,...then things can't progress, and nobody learns anything new.
Of course new ideas and suggestions need to be looked into, but at least on here there is a flexibility and openess to go ahead and do that.
If something amounts to nothing, fair enough, at least something was given a chance.
I followed one thread over there, where a poster started a thread which became very popular. It was to do with edging and a supplement regime. Very interesting stuff. But some mod on there seemed to be a bit of a killjoy and just appeared to be awkward for the sake of it.
It seemed like that to me, but I may be wrong. But the mod actually said to the poster who was writing some very interesting material..."What do you want?"
It just came across to me that maybe some degree of jealousy was going on there, where an average member was onto something, and better known established posters didn't really want some new guy getting good attention.
Like someone was getting ideas above their station or something.
I don't know, I don't want to tread on anyone's toes, my perception may have been wrong.
But I do think that on here there is more of an openess to newer ideas. Rather than something being dismissed as impossible, here there appears to be more of a tendency to find out why something is not possible before dismissing an idea.
Science is something that is always correcting itself, and older scientific conclusions have been found out to not entirely tell the whole story.
I love reading threads on here.
The thread about new plants and herbs, and the thread about Lucid Dreaming were very interesting reads.
