In article , John the Viking
writes

Both fair points, the reason why i posted the story as well is because i
noticed that someone else who had posted about similar problems in a
matter of fact way was replied to with comments like "people who leave
their plants to die should be shot!"

Eh????
I've never seen anything like that in uk.rec.gardening (which is where
you are posting)

and other such messages, which is
why i put the story with it. Can't please some people!

thanks to the one person who replied nicely to the post, as opposed to
the two unhelpful people who took time out of their day to be spiteful
to someone asking for help.

Again, puzzlement. I hadn't seen any spiteful reply, so I looked up the
thread in Google groups, and found two helpful replies (one in the
original thread, one in your second thread), and one silly reply from
someone I killfiled long ago - I suppose someone else may have replied
negatively with a no-archive flag, but you do seem to have missed at
lest one helpful response.
--
Kay
"Do not insult the crocodile until you have crossed the river"