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I've subscribed and posted to Plyle, but not much talk about gardening and such so I quit.

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That conversation is season dependent, it seems.

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The first thing you ought to do when a new person subscribes is respond to their ideas somehow. or your wife if its too busy, or designate someone. Find out what the person is good at and try to raise discussion, integrate them in, somehow.

I like listening to Doug Casey, but known as a successful speculator, I think, as overloaded his listeners with speculators! I tried that once and promptly lost a hundred grand. Since then I've figured out gardening is more predictable. Try to tell a speculator gardening is predictable. Hahaha!

Nice that you responded, its a start.

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Well heck, Rick. I've posted 198 times as of this morning and responded to the ideas of others more than 1242 times according to the logs. The community aspect of phyle is just one of the benefits. Others are there for the workshops on 'disconnecting from centralized systems' and 'How to Spot a Psy-op.' Some join for the stock recommendations. Some join for the boots on the ground reports of like-valued fellow members from all over the world.

Some are looking for 'their people'; a group of individuals that share their interests and values. This is the hardest part because your experience of "community" is fully dependent on your attitude and actions toward the other individuals in that group. Reciprocity and good faith are the key.

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Well heck Matthew, since you put up a front and made this an ego driven answer you failed to address my concern, or rather, one reason is I was somewhat bored with the content, my posts did get a few likes but, THE SUBSCRITPTION WASN'T WORHT SEVEN FeRNs A MONTH. as thus I have to not be able to offer reciprocity and good faith as you infer.

I'm really good at growing food from scratch and leave it at that.

Since I don't want to ruin your business model I will take my leave. This is normally when will someone will type wish you luck on the way out, but I decided long ago to save it for myself.

Ha!

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“Healthy introspection, without undermining oneself; it is a rare gift to venture into the unexplored depths of the self, without delusions or fictions, but with an uncorrupted gaze.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche

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