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Originally Posted by Tog Tan
Hey Bob, I think that if we divide the 'naner growing regions, it should be;
1. USA
2. Europe
3. South America
4. SEA
If you look at it, each area has its peculiar growing conditions and cultivars. The thing is not me or anybody starting a thread on a region. If it's a regular thread, it will get buried after a while and someone has to be on the watch to dig it out. Did you notice me popping the European thread on the newbie, Patrick, and he immediately went in and registered? What I am saying is that someone has to be on the lookout all the time to do this, and it is not practical. It has to be visually there for the new members to notice.
Maybe we should have a question in the membership application asking where the new member is from and asking him/her to register in their respective region. This is a record which also will gives the members confidence in numbers of their own type/kind.
Then there should be a distinct forum for #2, #3 and #4, where the members can ask questions pertaining to their region. Others can also participate and learn from the discussions of that region's problems or interesting subjects. Well, they can talk some in their own language if they feel more comfy cos as I have noted from one of the active members here on personal comm, he says he would like to join in the threads but his English holds him back.
I would love a forum on my region so that I can do a data base on the cultivars' similarity.
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Tog this is not a criticism but isn't that kinda complicated? if you look at for example Dave's Garden forum one of the largest gardening web sites out there that i know of the way they Handel all of this is they have a news letter sent out two times a month in it there are short 1/2 page essays on varies topics nothing to involved any one can contribute but it is edited and controlled by there board of volunteer moderators i know i Waite every two weeks for it to come and most of my participation in the board is based on the things i see in there news letter I'm not saying that is the way we should go but its something to considerer i find in life that nothing is ever one way its mostly a mix of all sorts of facts
O and i only just found this thread so i would have participated sooner but i must have missed it there was a period of a month or so i took a brake from the org its was getting to be monotonous to me that was during the spider mite faze no offense to any one passionate about spider mites there a B$%^ i know!
Iv kinda skirted around this but it applies to this thread i think one of the reasons i go threw not participating is that some times people are merciless with the need to pin every fact and dot every eye and in doing so they make those of us that are interested but trying to be some what light hearted feel like we are criminals for getting something wrong or making a mist step those are the things that make people not want to hang around you cant change the subject mater this is after all Bananas.org by its vary nature its a limited subject which tends to appeal in the OCD sect which i include my self in so please don't PM me about the OCD comment i think the vast majority of people come here because it sounds interesting but after a wail they realize they have broader interest and just move on could you imagine what the ORG would be like if we had say even 500 people are making regaler comments on even 20% of the threads it would be mass hysteria so really the point is i don't believe that there need to be any thing done at all its a nice board with a pretty smoothly flowing thread count compared to other chat sites
why mess with a good thing and if you want to clear out the registry of non participating members do what the other sites do send out a Email requiring the recipient to click on a link to reconfirm there membership desire