SATAN and his soul sucking? Perhaps my presence frightens them away?

There can only be ONE!

I tend to lurk here a bit but I do get put off by the political correctness that Kingsnake must keep to maintain general happiness here. I like a bit of color, forums should be fun AND informative... we keep snakes for enjoyment!

I think that "big breeders" may shy away from these forums because they may get bashed and find it frustrating to do battle with a 12 year old behind a keyboard. They may also get into a debate with someone, post a bunch and watch the ENTIRE thread get YANKED????

Frustrating to say the least....

There were many interesting threads here years back and "big breeders" would debate and argue here. Over time, there was less tolerance(moderators) for post and subjects that were not pink and fluffy; too many people became frustrated, they watched their post removed over and over again!

Rick YOU KNOW what I am talking about!!!!!!

So that said, there are some major reasons why they no longer come here. Remember, not all of the "big breeders" get along!
I personally do not care about who is better and who is the greatest, there are MANY breeders out there that have AWESOME animals I would love to have and DESERVE the credit for their accomplishments. I really don't think there are a lot of breeders that can get past some of the issues here...

Mutation bad mouthing... (sometimes done sly or blatant)

Example - Pretty funny, another breeder can "butcher" the spider "head wobble" into the ground saying how defective they are and they are the WORST mutation.... They are doing it in my opinion to SLAM me, I DO NOT CARE!!!!!!! It is not going to HURT me and my market and make me look bad. Spiders have a few quirks but they are also just plain AWESOME and make some of the BEST mutations hands down!!!!! They think they will get to me and hurt my business, that is the bottom line, I personally think it is weak and a lovely form of SNOBBERY!

There are more Spider mutations than ANY OTHER MORPH!!!!! Not a bad track record for a "terrible and defective" gene!!!!

Breeders get tired of dealing with stories and lies and just don't want to deal with it anymore so they just plain avoid the forums. It takes a great deal of effort to keep everyone happy and sometimes it may be better not to even appear at all so someone can not get mad at you.

I know Kingsnake is doing a FUN Ball Python chat soon...I think Monday the 26th of this month.... Brian @ BHB and Brian at Chicago Newt Supply are going to BATTLE against me during it!!!!
We should be entertaining and informative and UNEDITED!!!!!!! hard to moderate me there!!!!!

As far as being helpful...I always look for something I can answer that others have not.... generally there are not many things unanswered and I do not want to appear as a "know it all"...in fact I AM A "KNOW IT ALL"!!!!

I really like to post pictures of new stuff we make @ NERD but it seems many people ignore these post of ours so I just stopped. There are cliches here, I am not trying to flaunt mutations but rather get excited about what you guys think of them! I am always amazed by the responses here.....

I try to get other Breeders to post and you may have noticed my cryptic ramblings from time to time to stir the pot....

Well, my post is long enough!

SATAN



>>get enough questions by e-mail and phone anyway from people who really want to get the answers from the "Big" guys.
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>>They have their own forums, their own things to do... Imagine having a large collection of hundreds if not thousands of snakes.. It does not give much time to read all the forum posts and answer all the repetative questions.
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>>Kevin and Brian post here enough, but they don't answer the small questions... There are plenty of other people who are qualified to do so.
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>>Yeah, there are other bigger breeders who don't post here at all. There are other forums in which they do.
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>>That's all. This is NOT the only forum out there...
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>>www.HeathersHerps.com
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>>-Ohh, what a Lady-
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>>Balls for Life, Baby!
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