This is a great example of quantity over quality posts. What you see here is quantity. 4 pages of useless fluff.
Quality posts will attract industry insiders, industry professionals, manufacturers, technical experts and the like.
While I will admit this is not a quality post, the point should resonate to those who actually care about this forum, its goals and the members we would *hope* to attract.
Tom
Let me share this with you Tom: In one of my ex-work I planted over two million trees, my friend planted over two million trees, eight more friends planted over two million trees.
Between the ten of us we planted over twenty million trees.
One hundred co-workers planted less than two million trees among all themselves.
Walk in our forests twenty, forty, sixty, hundred years later, and you won't find a forest less "quality" than the next. The trees they grow straight, tall, happy and healthy.
Only the nature of the elements can affect their growth more or less towards their ultimate reach and richness.
There is a force, a quality of the totality that is
incommensurable. You walked among twenty plus million trees in the forest, or you walk among two million trees in the next.
There is more walking in the largest one, and there is no quality better in the smaller one. A tree has a life of its own, and many trees build more houses, wood bridges, wood balconies, rewards and reaps more revenues and without one dollar being better quality than the other one. ...It's growth, natural growth, and only the quality of the soil plus the natural elements (rain, sun) has the best natural influence on them trees and forests.
I could write several books on the tree species @ various altitudes but I won't.
You have better chance to have more quality posts in more of them than less of them. There is a natural human balance that draw all by itself, a current energy more powerful than men's own direction. It's up to us to make that balance by choosing wisely and selectively what we're reading. And from more readings there are better chance to learn than less reading.
This is just one of my views, among many more. I thought especially of you sharing it here. And what I just said is no fiction, it's the real truth; physically, spiritually, strategically, ecologically and economically. That's what I did for almost thirty years with many many co-workers like me...'high-ballers' and 'low-ballers'...high caliber tree-planters, and less high caliber tree-planters...all kind of tree-planters...but the ultimate common goal was the same...more quality forests for more people of planet Earth.
And the impact of more "quantity" forests means more "quality" positive attributes for everybody...human race, wildlife, ecologic balance, good for the flow of rivers, the level of lakes, the snow melt, the water reservoirs, the ocean's health, the fishes, the clean air, the oxygen...everything that is good on Earth...fruits, gardens, humans, dogs and cats, birds, wildlife habitats, cosmos, atmospheric ozone, anti-pollutants, natural protective ultra-violet radiation, brief...the mind, body, health, spirit, soul and love of the entire humanity...men women and children. Plus the fact that you plant more keeps your body in shape and your mind shark and always on edge. ...Like climbing mountains and surf them down.
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General acknowledgement (essay, for everyone - "You" here means "everyone"):
You can run your own site with only quality posting; everyone who post quantity over quality you can ban them.
Only the best.
And the best also comes from the rest...the more trees, the more forests...to provide more and more advantages for more people everywhere.
Cheer up, it's better than what you think. Look @ the positive side of it, instead of being negative of the dreams you once had and still trying to hold on to.
The world around you is rolling, and it's not one person that makes it rolling, it's everyone...all the people in it.
You cannot control what cannot be controlled, including people. Nobody can. There is a natural force that we cannot fight...the vastness of the forests.
And no one can give directives without people accepting and adapting them to their own positive lifestyle. Our values we choose them ourselves, and nobody else.
Trust yourself without imposing it to others. ...That's in general sense I'm saying that...not directed towards you or me specifically, but more thinking from my own way of living. ...Like free spoken words, like trees in a forest, like rain bouncing up from the car tops.