Re: dissapointed

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Posted by stardust on January 09, 2003 at 14:21:23:

In Reply to: Re: dissapointed posted by Darin Chappell on January 09, 2003 at 13:54:58:

I believe that there is a link here between the different forums. And that link is Melissa Kaplan. For me, she has helped me when I have asked questions and given me good links to go to to help me understand what I need to know. I have nothing bad to say about her, I am not rah rah MK, I am just saying she has never done anything to me personally and in fact has helped me out, and that is one of the things I base things on when searching for information. The other things I look for is other sites, other forums, other people that have views as well. I have heard the things that you have said and will take heed, shop around so to speak, read others opinions and look at other sites as well, then I will put it all together and use my common sense and resolve whatever needs to be resolved. If these things are in fact incorrect then she should correct them, but that is not for me to say. I can only say what I know, and I know thus far she has done me no wrong.

:I agree that the intial posting was not well written or thought out. Others' names were dragged into the "discussion" without their knowledge or permission as well.

:However, others that responded to the discussion which developed were honestly trying to broach a subject that is emotional to many for varying (and sometimes divergeant) reasons. It is THAT aspect of the deleted portions that should be resurected, in my opinion.

:As for me, I only keep corn snakes (though I have had lizzards before too). If, however, I had a site dedicated 98% to corns and only 2% to other species (including a care sheet on iguanas), and you saw that I had written something like . . ."iguanas will flourish on a diet of nothing more than goldfish, but only if they have no UV light exposure," surely you would all realize that I knew nothing of iguanas!

:Furthermore, would you not also be skeptical of my expertise in the other areas I covered? I mean, if I am decidedly wrong about something about which you have definite knowledge, how could you ever trust me to be correct on issues about which you have no knowledge?

:If I were an "expert" on cornsnakes, but felt the need to dabble in other species as well, and I put forth information that will cause animals to die in those species in which I have dabbled, I would like to think that I would change my care sheets or eliminate them entirely once such information had been brought to my attention. However, it would appear that not all "experts" are so conscientious.

:I have tried to set forth my veiws as honestly and forthrightly as I can. I openly invite any remarks made in the same spirit.

Follow Ups:

I couldn't have said it better.... xta 01/09/03 (5)
- Re: I couldn't have said it better.... Darin Chappell 01/09/03 (4)
  - Re: I couldn't have said it better.... stardust 01/09/03 (3)
    - Thats it, Seamus, thank you too, sorry again stardust 01/09/03 (2)
      - Actually, Seamus responded to the original . . .n/p Darin Chappell 01/09/03 (1)
        
        Re: Actually, Seamus responded to the original . . .n/p stardust 01/09/03 (0)