taking snakes outside...

[blackcrystal22]

Sorry folks, I felt compelled to jump in here. (I moderate the "other forum"). mommanessy247 was NEVER asked to "not ask questions" I even encouraged continued participation in the thread.

We all tried to be informative and helpful, however when the answers were not what mommanessy247 wanted to hear, it went downhill from there.

All the same information is appearing here, I don't want to start a war, so I am going to back off now, but it is not appreciated the things that have been said by Mommanessy247.

For fear of being seen as a troll or instigator, I'll cease and desist this round and round.

Kaorte: since I was called out my Momma (I'm the "difficult" member on the site she mentioned, though not by name); I felt it my duty to correct some of the lies being spewed about a forum that, though fallen on some hard times over the last few years, am still a contributing member of.
I personally have been around this hobby/business for a while, and call me old-school, ( and I undertand that many people do not agree with me on this (usually the lazy ones)) but I have always found that while forums are a great place to socialize and ask the more obscure or hard-to-find questions, that the onus remains on the keeper to do even a tiny little bit of research on their own. This is quite easily achieved by buying a book or two, or using their public library and picking up a book on the captive husbandry of ball pythons or visiting some great hobbyist and breeder sites and reading.
There is no substitute for a good knowledge-base.

As for the "outdoor faisco":
What happened was, much like here, when she was explained by a few experienced members (myself included) that an outdoor enclosure should not be her priimary focus, as it clearly had become at the time, and explained why, telling here that she should focus her attention on her INDOOR husbandry issues, (which, from experience, will abound when you use a fish cage to house a ball python), before cavorting outside with her hatchling. She proceeded to snub her nose at our suggestions.

Maybe we're a more jaded bunch up north, but when someone comes to a forum, hat in hand, asking questions, and when she doesn't get the answers that she WANTS, to poo poo on the advice given is bad internet manners.
This type of behavior is not condsuive to harbouring friendly, open dialog and knowledge-sharing.

As for bad advice regarding the above question that was also asked here, she posted her question in the General Discussion forum, and nowhere within the bodies of her posts did she mention once that she was inquiring about a ball python setup.
That said, there were a few members who recalled that she was, infact, referring to her August-arriving ball python, and was answered both informatively and appropriately.
My post:



Just wanted to clarify and clear up a few of the lies, misinformation and gossip that has infected this site.

You guys seem to be really offended because your forum was mentioned once in a bad light.
If we went around defending people unhappy with our forum, we'd have a whole new job!

This is not a competition, it's open non-profit internet resource.

What I'm saying is, if someone said something that you don't think is true about someone, don't bring it over to this site as if you are required to come to the ultimate defense of a terrible attack, talk about it privately through e-mails or personal messages. It is possible that the OP was asked to stop asking questions personally, but that's not a forums fault.