breeding the youngsters!!

[MarkS]

Thats a nice post Mark...but from im sittin im not seeing any of open minded tolerance thing your talking about...

i got asked to come over and get active on this board by some friends..and Ive never seen such a militant bunch on any forum before...

I understand what you're saying Gib, and you're going to get disagreement fairly often, I get it and expect it because after all not everyone is as intelligent as I am... but at least you have a chance to speak your opinion and not have your posts pulled or your butt banned merely for having a differing opinion. On that other forum I had more posts pulled then were allowed to stand despite the fact that I posted nothing contrary to the TOS, it got to be so ridiculous that I finally had enough and told the moderators exactly what I thought of them..... After which of course I received a permanent ban.... Oh well....

Gib...we've certainly had our fair share of threads where a few folks take a hard stand on their opinion and then get into "last word" boxing matches where the primary instigators think whoever yells the loudest and gets the last word in wins or something. It's just going to happen when you have large groups of virtual strangers all trying to discuss something at the same time. And it happens because we DO strive to allow as many different opinions and ideas as possible. If we were truly as militant as you try to make us out to be, then we'd be locking down threads left and right and never allowing such discussions to continue because someone might get an idea that doesn't match the "status quo."

I appreciate you're NOT locking down threads just because of a few shouting matches, though it has happened from time to time and it saddens me when it does happen because I think there are few things worse then censorship. However, I understand that some is inevitable when certain lines are crossed. However, I do make a note of it whenever I see it happen. Remember, I'm keeping an eye on you as much as you're keeping an eye on me.

I hope you don't let the actions of a few inevitable hotheads color your opinion of the entire site. The admins and the mod-staff of this site make NO money and get NO compensation whatsoever for the work they do here. And yet we work as hard as humanly possible to make sure everyone is treated as fairly as possible and the beginner keepers have a place to come and learn how to care for their animals and share their questions, their successes, their worries and their pride and pictures of thriving animals.

And I appreciate it... Thank you...