The "Simple" Questions

[adi]

awesome post btw!

both ways that you look at it. If you are helping someone with "simple" questions, you feel good both about yourself and for the person asking the question. and for the person recieving answers (much like myself), they feel good when their questions get answered. the giver and reciever both feel like the community is all around them.

read my sig people!

[Snakeman]

great post!! i remember when i first came here i had questions and felt a bit shy about asking but eventually i realized that the people here are here to help me.

[frankykeno]

Brock I've been out all day so am just catching up on this thread. First I'll address your post. You haven't been around here long hon but anyone that knows me online or off will tell you if I wanted to address a problem I had with you, it would get addressed straight up. There would be no confusion about who I was talking about or what I was concerned about. I don't start threads that hint or double speak about members. Neither do I participate in online "attacks" which quite honestly are cowardly and I believe pretty far beneath the sort of person I strive to be. I come by the nickname of a "mouthy broad" quite honestly and carry it quite proudly. I'll spell it out for you Brock, I have no problem with you at all, I don't know you well enough to have made that sort of decision, you simply made me think.

When I think, I post threads to see who is thinking along those lines too and get a feel for the community here. I'd actually been speaking with another member about a month ago about this very topic, so basically your choice of words simply brought it back to the forefront of my rather busy brain. If you see it for more than that, that would be your problem Brock not mine but I'm sorry if you do as that was not my intent (and I thought I covered this in the first paragraph in my original post).

[wolfy-hound]

Although I try to respond to posts, I don't usually post to a thread if someone else has already offered the information asked for. If someone posts on here and says "What temps should my ball python's cage be at?" I'll actually go grab my book to double-check. Yeah, I know.. I'm OCD that way. But generally by the time I've gotten around to checking the forums here, someone else has already beaten me to answering it.
I talk to a LOT of people every day, and when they ask me the same dumb question over again, I think of the fact that to them, it's the first time they've asked it. They don't have a clue that I've answered it 100 times already. All they know is that maybe I've got that information they want. So they ask. So... I answer, and I try to even answer with a smile and some encouragement.
Sometimes it's gritting the teeth more than smiling.. but it's an attempt.
With animals it's easier, since you can ALWAYS rationalize that you are helping the animal by stating ONE MORE TIME.. "No, ball pythons do better when housed alone, never house two or more together." It might be the 500th time YOU'VE said that... but it's probaly the FIRST time THEY'VE asked it.
Good post OP, and good responses.
Brock, you shouldn't feel defensive for not having more time to answer questions here. But if you feel you are 'fed up' with questions on a particular night, then don't answer. Someone else will be along to answer, and that way you don't have to feel you got 'short' with someone because you might be tired or grumpy. I've had nights that I refuse to post responses at all here.. not becuase the posts I read are particularly stupid, simple, or bad.. but because I'm pretty sure *I* am grumpy and would snap or post snidely.
I'm not saying you did, BTW, I don't know what post you posted that you were referring to. The advice is just as valid for Adam as it is for Brock, or Jamie, or Joanna or myself! I'm pretty sure we all get tired of answering the same 'simple' or 'obvious' questions. Just step back when it happens, and let it pass. You'll be all happy and raring to answer newbies questions later on!
Wolfy

[tmlowe5704]

I love me some fiesty women!

[Adam_Wysocki]

I love me some fiesty women!

I thought last night you were saying that a weak pulse is all ya need?

-adam

[Freakie_frog]

I thought last night you were saying that a weak pulse is all ya need?

-adam

[frankykeno]

Ohhh fiesty is so much nicer than the b word that rhymes with witch. I like it, I like it!

[jotay]

Awesome posts Jo! Said in a very effective way

In the end though we went with Adam Wysocki and his participation in BPNet is in large part why he got our hard earned money. Not purely because he produces great snakes or ships them so perfectly (though that of course matters) but because he's here, day in and day out. Answering the most basic of questions, answering the much harder breeding/morph questions, joking around, sharing his passion. Adam helped us with snakes he didn't even sell us, had zip financial gain for doing so but he did. This gave us a level of confidence in purchasing that just cannot be bought with the standard type of online marketing tool.

Show me your passion for snakes....I'll show you my cash.

That's the reason Adam has gotten my business. And the reason anyone else would. If your to big to answer questions then your to big for me

[frankykeno]

Well darn it all I have to spread some rep around before I can come back to you Jotay honey! Great post!

I think another part of this participation thing is how we often see newcomers that post a pic or pose a question about their snake and put in "it's just a normal". Almost every single one of us started out with normals, most of us have a number of normals in our collections and we value them highly. I think though for a newcomer to BPNet, when they see all these lovely morphs they can get a bit overwhelmed and think we are morph snobs and their snakes won't count for much around here. Nothing of course is further from the truth.

The more though that we welcome, encourage, educate and support our newcomers, the more we help them see their normals are as valued as any high dollar morph. Robin put it so very well in a recent phone conversation so I hope she won't mind if I quote her...."they are just snakes with a different paint job". I'm very proud that here at BPNet we care as much for the $50.00 PetCo purchased snake as we do the expensive morph. We show that over and over by our participation in the questions that naturally come with that snake's purchase.

I'm very proud of breeders here that treat their normals as they do their morphs. They set a wonderful standard.