Is live feeding really that bad?

[JoshSloane]

Nope I am actually here in my corner laughing at the ignorance in every single of your post

Unlike you I am keep my promises and I am done with this thread (so no need to answer), you can lead a horse to the water.

Keep on doing what you doing showing your IGNORANCE by trying to scare people off based on ZERO experience and until next time....have fun because you are a waste of time, I believe people have made up their mind about you, so my job is done here.

One last thing didn't you mention you were an educator? You educate out of fear and ignorance? Good job.

I definitely do not have a dog in this fight, and I am not going to comment on the merits of f/t vs live, but after reading this thread, as well as experiencing many of my own, I must comment on some patterns I have seen developing. As I have spread out to other reptile based forums, I have noticed an incredibly stark contrast in how moderators interact with members. It seems that on this forum, rather than oversee the threads and information presented, moderators are incredibly quick to name call, judge, and denigrate anyone who does not share their opinions, and are seemingly openly willing to quickly jump into a fight, and berate members. Calling someone "a waste of time" and disrespecting their career as an educator, as seen in this post, is absolutely unacceptable. I was under the impression that this behavior was not to be tolerated by members, surely a moderator should be held to the same or a higher standard. As BP.net was my first forum I belonged to, I began to think that moderators ganging up on, and disrespecting members was the status quo. Yet now that I am a member of two other forums, I have found this is not the case. Moderators on other forums are respectful, informative, patient, and do not enter into disputes on threads. They diffuse fights, rather than promote them.

I understand that this is a privately owned forum, and the owners can create whatever environment they want, albeit however hostile it is. But as a moderator, you represent the site and the culture that the site promotes. Engaging in, and promoting spats with members, and using disrespectful language only serves to reflect horrifically on the site itself, and those that own it. You as moderators should be setting the example, and the positive tone with which this site should run. I