Thanks for that thoughtful response. I do understand how busy people are and do my best to moderate my expectations. Sometimes though I will admit to getting my feelings hurt. Silly I know. Imagine getting pushed out of shape because someone I have never met nor am likely to ignores me when I share the name of a plant that they couldn’t identify on the internet. But I guess I’m just a sensitive old curmudgeon.
I used to be really active on a sailing message board years ago. I would share stuff and answer questions about rigging. Sailors always have questions about rigging.
Anyway, they had an off topic forum which sometimes got pretty lively but in general worked pretty well.
Over time enough people complained about being forced to read stuff that they found upsetting that the moderators instituted various ways of protecting people’s sensitivities.
Eventually they decided that you had to go through a special log in procedure to post there and it became invisible to everyone not logged in.
I and some other people quit. Some started their own short lived sites. I just didn’t interact with people anymore. I felt like the whole idea of “community” that was promoted so strongly was a hypocritical come on that sucked people in. I felt like they only wanted the rigger part of me and wanted me to keep any and all eccentric ideas to myself. I felt insulted.
Since then I have been careful not to open myself up like that again. It’s been a life long fault of mine.
That and talking too much. Sorry.