420
Founder
There seems to be a lot of confusion and paranoia circulating in regards to people disappearing, so we thought we'd shed a little light on the subject to ease everyone's minds.
There are probably 420 different reasons why someone disappears, however these are the most common.
Some claim we have issues with people posting journals on other sites, which is simply not true, just another tactic to make you paranoid enough to trust whoever is trying to recruit you for another website. We just don't want the promoting, cross linking and recruiting that usually goes along with it and when that occurs, we follow protocol by removing the violations and banning the recruiter. It's never personal for us, it's just procedure.
We are a private company, this is our website and posting here is a privilege, not a requirement. Therefore we ask that you respect our guidelines and we will get along just fine.
Recruiters usually operate by sending you tons of love in your journals and PMs, then they get personal with you, then they ask for an email address, phone number or alternative way to contact you. Then the recruiting process begins off site. They are determined to do whatever they can to turn all of our staff and good members against us, all in hopes of hurting us and our mission, while building theirs from our resources.
Be careful and think. Sometimes these people are sincere, sometimes they could be a cop, sometimes they could be a recruiter trying to take advantage of you. If you were under cover, how would you make your new contacts? Think about it. People get all chummy on here sending things to each other and exchanging personal information, then someone gets robbed or busted and nobody has any idea what happened. Just be careful guys, we do so much to protect you, which is why our guidelines are so specific. Everything we do here is for you, the members, readers and sponsors of 420 Magazine.
It's not easy to please everyone, especially when your job is telling rebels what they can and can't do. We ask that everyone please try to remember the love and respect you felt upon joining our mission, and remember that we must enforce our guidelines equally to everyone, otherwise they are meaningless.
Before you view something in a pessimistic fashion and allow yourself to become offended by one of our advisories, please remember that you are a guest in our house. We don't have to give you the respect of pulling you aside to explain why your post violated our guidelines, but we do. Other sites will either just advise you in public in front of everyone, or just edit/delete and send a template message, never to reply to your rebuttals, etc. We on the other hand will engage with you and help you understand what we did and why, giving you many examples and analogies to help get you on the same page before giving up on you. It's only those who continue arguing, getting aggressive and committing even more violations, that we escort to the door.
Sometimes sponsors decide not to renew, therefore we may choose to censor their url in certain cases. Take for instance a seed company that advertises for one year, we promote them so heavily that the entire community begins promoting them as well. Then the sponsor decides to stop advertising with us, yet the entire community is still plugging them. Then we try to get other sponsors to come in and take their place, so we have to minimize the promotion of the ex-sponsor, in order for proper promotion of the new sponsor to take effect. This has nothing to do with anything other than making our sponsors happy, so they continue paying our bills. Without them, there is no website and/or mission.
Bottom line here guys is we've worked our asses off for almost 30 years, providing you with the best possible Cannabis education and entertainment for FREE. All we ask is you give us the respect and courtesy not to violate our guidelines and/or promote other competing websites.
Please take a moment to familiarize yourself with our policies in these areas, so we can put these mysteries to rest, once and for all.
Forum Guidelines & 420 Guidelines - Frequently Asked Questions
There are probably 420 different reasons why someone disappears, however these are the most common.
- Lost interest and stopped posting.
- Lost internet access.
- Got locked up.
- Got too sick to post or passed away.
- Got the data they came for and no longer have use for us anymore.
- Security became compromised so they decided to disassociate.
- Became too busy with life, job, etc. and now has no time to post.
- Repeatedly or intentionally violated our guidelines and got banned.
- Got recruited by a competitor or hate group of banned members.
- Got offended and upset after receiving an advisory.
Some claim we have issues with people posting journals on other sites, which is simply not true, just another tactic to make you paranoid enough to trust whoever is trying to recruit you for another website. We just don't want the promoting, cross linking and recruiting that usually goes along with it and when that occurs, we follow protocol by removing the violations and banning the recruiter. It's never personal for us, it's just procedure.
We are a private company, this is our website and posting here is a privilege, not a requirement. Therefore we ask that you respect our guidelines and we will get along just fine.
Recruiters usually operate by sending you tons of love in your journals and PMs, then they get personal with you, then they ask for an email address, phone number or alternative way to contact you. Then the recruiting process begins off site. They are determined to do whatever they can to turn all of our staff and good members against us, all in hopes of hurting us and our mission, while building theirs from our resources.
Be careful and think. Sometimes these people are sincere, sometimes they could be a cop, sometimes they could be a recruiter trying to take advantage of you. If you were under cover, how would you make your new contacts? Think about it. People get all chummy on here sending things to each other and exchanging personal information, then someone gets robbed or busted and nobody has any idea what happened. Just be careful guys, we do so much to protect you, which is why our guidelines are so specific. Everything we do here is for you, the members, readers and sponsors of 420 Magazine.
It's not easy to please everyone, especially when your job is telling rebels what they can and can't do. We ask that everyone please try to remember the love and respect you felt upon joining our mission, and remember that we must enforce our guidelines equally to everyone, otherwise they are meaningless.
Before you view something in a pessimistic fashion and allow yourself to become offended by one of our advisories, please remember that you are a guest in our house. We don't have to give you the respect of pulling you aside to explain why your post violated our guidelines, but we do. Other sites will either just advise you in public in front of everyone, or just edit/delete and send a template message, never to reply to your rebuttals, etc. We on the other hand will engage with you and help you understand what we did and why, giving you many examples and analogies to help get you on the same page before giving up on you. It's only those who continue arguing, getting aggressive and committing even more violations, that we escort to the door.
Sometimes sponsors decide not to renew, therefore we may choose to censor their url in certain cases. Take for instance a seed company that advertises for one year, we promote them so heavily that the entire community begins promoting them as well. Then the sponsor decides to stop advertising with us, yet the entire community is still plugging them. Then we try to get other sponsors to come in and take their place, so we have to minimize the promotion of the ex-sponsor, in order for proper promotion of the new sponsor to take effect. This has nothing to do with anything other than making our sponsors happy, so they continue paying our bills. Without them, there is no website and/or mission.
Bottom line here guys is we've worked our asses off for almost 30 years, providing you with the best possible Cannabis education and entertainment for FREE. All we ask is you give us the respect and courtesy not to violate our guidelines and/or promote other competing websites.
Please take a moment to familiarize yourself with our policies in these areas, so we can put these mysteries to rest, once and for all.
Forum Guidelines & 420 Guidelines - Frequently Asked Questions
Maybe the missing posters were just too good at what they were doing...
and 
Both times were completely unintentional, let's be honest, sometimes we post when we're...ur...well medicated! Both moderators were completely professional and understanding, and I felt really bad that I had violated the 
I just hope I wasn't using up two out of my three strikes!
