by fusordoug » Thu Aug 14, 2014 8:23 am
Hi Mary, and welcome. That was a bit run-on to read, but it looks like we're neighbors, or nearly. Yes, when I moved here ~35 years ago as a city boy, I found there was a lot to learn, and have since learned that in re gardening, yeah, it's not just putting seeds on the ground...but also nothing bio lasts 100's of years...it's an ongoing thing. Our main thrust here is science, not that much emphasis on off-grid stuff, but some, so far, as that's not been a real topic of interest in the current membership of scientists, 100% of whom use real names period, because it matters in real life...anyone can claim a handle and steal any idea you post under a fake name after all, and we tend to like to use the same names we use on the phone etc.
Of course, no one with a name like satan666 is getting on here no matter if I did let them register...or a name like wpoeifjslc which is obviously a spam-bot, which we've had issues with in the past.
I'm sure you'll see a lot of mod action for awhile. I've let in just about everyone who even has a legible fake name, and our mods will (not so) gently remind them all to get a name or get lost. This isn't social media, it's a book we are jointly writing on how to do things - there are other places for that kind of thing. We use the water cooler to just gas on about stuff, since after a little while, an untended thread there just goes away as befits the office trash can.
Why guess when you can know? Measure!