gangel0409

I think this is a good idea .

banana13

Just a little confused, what does it mean when it says that you can trade it for live plants?

Abnshrek

You could but most auctions are for real money, during the growing season. :^)

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wind4you

I would have to agree also.

jet123

There should be some bananabucks auctions. That would be fun. Maybe someone can start one!

stevieboy1

Wow im new but what a great idea! It will definatly keep things interesting.
as for exchanging them for real banana plants being new i recond i need to post a ton lol.
Great idea though I just see it at the side of my post and thought bananabucks whats that lol So had to look.

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frog7994

so do I have enough to trade for some thing?I have like 3500

dinker

hay keep up the good work, you have gave me a way to get pups I need and made it ease for me to under stand so thank you very much, can you get back to me and tell me how this all work.THANK YOU VERY MUCH AND GOD BLESS

dinker

hay we were all new at the benging so just stay with us and it is all fun. I am tell new to looking forward to seeing you more often have a great day and happy growing

lowinaki

I am at the TEM here in Greece, and that is an exchange without money, but with TEM . In my experience the problem that people can have is that they do not get payed for the costs, like i get TEM but i can not buy my perlite or vermiculite with TEM, or I make natural champoo for instance but i do not sell it for TEM since every champoo costs me 2.50 to make for instance. I don't know how your system works, but it makes me think of TEM. If it is something like that you have to realise that for instance somebody poor can not put things that have costed money , somebody who has money will therefore not be interested in what this person has to offer. I am introducing in the TEM something new , its called giving, I will put the ground full of usefull plants,( most of wich the uses are unknown, so nobody can say hey you are a farmer without papers?) And i see that even with people who are so conditioned in the moneysystem and were before trying to get as much TEM they could (as if they could put it on the bank for their old days or something) are suddenly thinking, he what can i give, what can i do.
The TEM is much better than the money system, but it is still earning, trying to get more for most people.The power of TEM is that it is you might call an exercise in democracy. It is the first step away from money, and it teaches us that anybody can make a moneysystem, that money is just paper that we all agreed on has a certain value. If a small group of people are able to have most of the money in their possesion, making us so poor that we have nothing to eat, we can simply decide all together that something else has exchange value now.(It will still take a long time before people realize that though) It can be bananabucks, TEM or anything, or we might come to the conclusion that we live much better when we just give where it is most needed. About your bananabucks i have mixed feelings, i mean do we need to get rewarded for saying welcome? I liked it so much that so many people said welcome,(thanks all of you by the way) if i would learn they are getting bananabucks for it, i would feel half as nice.

I do not say it is a bad idea, but for me you should discuss the pro and the contra to make a model that keeps for instance the welcomes warm, that things will not become about making money or other bucks. That you don't deminisch your good idea of the welcomes with buckmaking for instance. I am new here on this site, and i want to really compliment you. I will tell all my friends to become a member, i will find some pictures of bananas somewhere, and say welcome and thanks as much as we can , if we work on it as a group, we get 5 and 5 plants and have a plantage in no time. Thank you thank you thank you.

Before you see this as an attack , it is not meant that way, i honestly really love this site,I think you did a great job on it, i really would hate it if it would get spoiled, and greed can spoil a lot, it is the main problem of the times we live in. You can invite greed with bananabucks, i think you should work on the idea a little longer, to make it in a way greed stays out of it. I think good behaviour is not learned by rewards, i think it is learned by opportunity.
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stevieboy1

I don't see your post as an attack and quite understand we're your conning from. I get what you mean ;-)
Regards
Steve ;-)

LilRaverBoi

Banana bucks are essentially a valueless 'currency' that is really only exchangeable for other valueless items on this site. Although the description in this thread says you can exchange them for plants, I have yet to see anyone offer such a transaction. They have particular uses on this site (can't seem to find the page that shows what you can trade them for) but I don't believe they can be traded for any tangible good or service in the real world. Therefore, the welcomes anyone joining the site receives are not based out of greed, but are actually genuine. I believe the welcome button is just an easy way to greet people rather than typing a post. The fact that you 'earn' banana bucks when doing so is cool, but does not seem to be a motivating factor. There's really no reason to be greedy and attempt to accrue a large number of them because they aren't really 'worth' anything.

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Abnshrek

Having some Banana Bucks no matter how many are suppose to make you Happy. Isn't that what life is suppose to be about? Happiness, some Banana Bucks & Plants (Lots of Banana's). :^)

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cincinnana

In the state of Ohio where I live we have something called EBT.
Electronic Bananabucks Transfer.
People use it all the time.
Simply go to Youtube and type in EBT and see how it works!!!

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harveyc

Just EBT everything in your account to mine and nobody will get hurt! :P

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lowinaki

The link below at sunfish showed points to change for lettertype of your name etc,i think i did not understand exactly what he was planning, the give away banana plants worried me and rewards for saying welkome, but as i can see from the link greed will not accur to buy yourself this; put your username in italic. Got me worried for a minute, i maybe not go into banana's since they need a lot of water, but this is such a nice site.Have not seen sites with a welcome somebody button,then so much information, and love for growing bananas,it makes me really hungry for a banana, i wish they were all over the place. I mean except of the commercial ones.It is refresching to see people be enthousiastic in what they are doing. Here in Greece i see a lot of misery, and i am busy with politics quite a bit don't get me wrong, i will try to discuss the nonviolent (my opinion) and the violent (almost everybody elses opinion),but i also need to do things i enjoy, it seems that most people are forgetting to do that part. For instance they ask me how are you, i say i am fine, and they say a nah we say so, i say no i really am fine, and then i get a strange look, like i don't believe you. Now i think politics are not the boss over how i feel, i am. Now this is maybe far from your bed for you all, but i can tell you no matter what happens keep the love for what you are doing. I might not grow bananas, but i will jump to this site once in a while, it is inspiring.

soobak0313

Could we exchange bananabucks?

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lowinaki

well i don't even have bananas, i was investigating if bananas grow here, i am looking to buy laqnd, depending on the water there i will or not go into bananas, for now it is not possible, wich is a shame i just love bananas. but that is hardly enough to have collected any bananabucks, maybe you can exchasnge with someone else.

sunfish