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Posted by Serpwidgets on August 02, 2002 at 01:08:51:
In Reply to: Re: The Official Standard of Corn Snake Morphology... posted by abell82 on August 02, 2002 at 00:22:51:
Obviously, there's no way to idiot-proof anything. All that does is guarantee that the world will invent a better idiot. But at least we could have something that we can all compare to. Right now it's like everyone is measuring "a foot" by the size of their own foot. And then we wonder why there's so much confusion.
It seems to me that what you are saying is that a small group of people should set a standard and everyone should live with it.
That's mostly my point but not entirely. I'm saying a small group of people--who know cornsnakes inside and out--should design and publish a standard. If the standard is a reasonable reflection of the market, people will accept it and it will become an "official" standard that we can all live by and with. Like I said, there's no magical force that makes anything official. Obviously if they write a standard that says "Okeetees are green with yellow saddles" nobody will abide by it...
But it seems like everyone is waiting for the "Hand of God" to swoop down and dictate some undeniable standard for us. It's not going to happen. Ever. Nothing ever becomes official until someone just up and says "this is official" and enough people agree with it that it becomes so.
... NOONE I ever saw graded there product fairly usually one or two grades better than it was,
I'm not sure if you're talking about stamps, but buyers--at least the intelligent ones--inspected anything before purchasing. The people who tried to "overgrade" stamps got laughed at.
These books only serve one purpose and that is to jack up the price of whatever is listed on it's pages!
I'm not concerned with prices, I'm just concerned with having some kind of accepted definition that says, "a ghost corn is," and "this is what an Okeetee looks like" so that buyers and sellers alike would have a yard stick to measure against.
