Suggestion for Spp. function

I am new to the site and I started adding my first polyculture today. However, I ran into some problems. The first was not being able to add species that are not on the site. More than half of the plants in my polyculture didn't show up on the drop down list. I saw that there was a forum post where we can suggest species to add, although I couldn't figure out how to reply to a post( might be foolishly missing it, but someone please tell me how!). So, my suggestion is that we should be able to add species even if they aren't on the site already...but they would just be disabled and it would not be clickable or link to anything. Does this make sense??

Another suggestion is to add a 'publish' function that way you can save posts without them becoming visible to everyone else.

I was going to talk to Mark about these things, but I couldn't get in contact w/ him and figured I'd just spill it out while fresh in my head! Thanks.

-Trevor