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Ok guys and gals.

Please let it be known that when the OFF TOPIC discussions outnumber the Leopard Gecko discussions - something is seriously off kilter. The occasional off topic conversation is fine, but when things get seriously out of control it needs to be dealt with.

Your recent posting spree has led me to do two things -

1 - Generalized off topic conversations are in the process of being moved over to the Open Discussion Forum where they properly belong.

2 - The high level of personal photos of each other has caused me to try something new. I have created a new forum called the The Member's Gallery. This forum is being set aside where members of the kingsnake.com forums can share photos of themselves as well as photos of their artwork, etc.

I am still in the process of scanning through the leopard gecko forum and moving certain threads to one or the other of those above mentioned forums.

Please help me keep the leopard gecko on track for what it was intended for - to discuss leopard geckos. Take any new conversations to the Open discussion forum or personal photo sharing topics to The Member's Gallery.

Open Discussion Forum = http://forums.kingsnake.com/forum.php?catid=159
The Member's Gallery = http://forums.kingsnake.com/forum.php?catid=141

Thanks.

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PHWyvern

you guys sure do a good job of creating new forums and moving messages, keep up the good work.
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0.1 "Tremper" looking Albino Leopard gecko (Lex)
0.0.1 tiger crested gecko (peachs)
1.1 Feral cats that we adopted (Fuzzy, and Bear)

there used to be a place on the leopard gecko forum where you could post a pic of yourself and write a little profile, too. anyone else remember that? that was cool...how come we don't have that anymore? it would have saved the trouble of posting all these pics...

amanda

I've been finding myself teetering between enjoying all the pictures and offtopic posts, which brings us all closer as a community, and finding it annoying that no one is talking about leopard geckos anymore! LOL!! It's a love-hate thing, I suppose.

No offense to anyone but that got a little out of hand. And the "contests" were so annoying. The worst part was when the same pictures started getting posted 3 or 4 times.

then why dont we let it rest and get back to leopard geckos instead of complaints? Or is there a complaint forum already? If so...get to moving em!

~Crystal
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Crystal Light (Yes..that's my real name)

*Whenever you lose a gecko, just think of it as God building on his own Leopard Gecko collection

The Gecko Barn

Sorry I offended you. With all due respect, that picture thing went on for three days, this has gone on for 5 minutes, and its not complaining. Just expressing like everyone else has been doing for the last week. I"m leaving for the day so this doesnt break out. Really sorry for offending you.

Its just that when people start making new threads about the complaints of OT threads..its kind of hypocritical. So IMHO, we need to just move on, and not make the people who DID post to the OT threads feel bad or look bad for doing so, even if its not intended.

~Crystal
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Crystal Light (Yes..that's my real name)

*Whenever you lose a gecko, just think of it as God building on his own Leopard Gecko collection

The Gecko Barn

>>Ok guys and gals.
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>>Please let it be known that when the OFF TOPIC discussions outnumber the Leopard Gecko discussions - something is seriously off kilter. The occasional off topic conversation is fine, but when things get seriously out of control it needs to be dealt with.
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>>Your recent posting spree has led me to do two things -
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>>1 - Generalized off topic conversations are in the process of being moved over to the Open Discussion Forum where they properly belong.
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>>2 - The high level of personal photos of each other has caused me to try something new. I have created a new forum called the The Member's Gallery. This forum is being set aside where members of the kingsnake.com forums can share photos of themselves as well as photos of their artwork, etc.
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>>I am still in the process of scanning through the leopard gecko forum and moving certain threads to one or the other of those above mentioned forums.
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>>Please help me keep the leopard gecko on track for what it was intended for - to discuss leopard geckos. Take any new conversations to the Open discussion forum or personal photo sharing topics to The Member's Gallery.
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>>Open Discussion Forum = http://forums.kingsnake.com/forum.php?catid=159
>>The Member's Gallery = http://forums.kingsnake.com/forum.php?catid=141
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>>Thanks.
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>>PHWyvern
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Crested Gecko Zeek:1.0, Ziggy and Zeus
LEOS: Boo: 1.0 normal , Bronx & Nala: 1.1 blizzard,
Lily: 0.1 patternless, Abby: 0.1 albino, Zoe: 0.1 reduced pattern, Dot: 0.1 hypo
New Girls: Flame, Karma, Bubbles and Bell pics coming soon
Chip: 1.0 papillion (small dog)

i agree that the discussion is not need like whos hot and not but i enjoy seeing visually whos who...but the other stuff was completely uneccesary
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-Bryan

Reflex Geckos Check it out!

Please correct me if i am wrong about this. I was under the impresion that that was more of a community rather than a Q&A board. While the posts in question were not about the geckos themselves, they were about the members of the community, therefore i dont see that really being off topic, i mean if we were posting pics of our cars, or our computer setups, i could see it being a problem. I thought it was great to see everyone in the community seeing each other and all the comments that were made about each other, things like that can do nothing but make the community better.
Setting up forums just for that is a good idea if people will actually visit them, btu we are already here so why not have it here where it is revelant?
Im not complaining, just putting in my 2cents
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www.hubcitygeckos.com

Very True. I had been told by one of the Moderators of this forum that this was a community, so OT posts were allowed.

However, I can see where the Hot Guy Contest might have been annoying - that thing got HUGE (trust me - I had NO idea it would get THAT crazy when I started it!!). Although it was fun to meet all these people "Face to Face."

And I still think Crystal's "Complaint Forum" idea is a good one..!!

~~Dusty

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So Many Alleles, So Little Time...!
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~~The Gecko Barn~~

>>Please correct me if i am wrong about this. I was under the impresion that that was more of a community rather than a Q&A board.

As was made clear in my original post:

When the OFF TOPIC discussions have a tendancy to outnumber the Leopard Gecko discussions - something is seriously off kilter. The OCCASIONAL off topic conversation is fine, but when things get out of control then it needs to be dealt with.

I pulled close to 600 (six hundred!) posts off this forum that were off topic or part of the personal photo sharing spree. Those 600 posts were made within a 4 (four) day period.

When you look at the situration from that view point - the posting spree was most certainly out of control and as such it was dealt with.
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PHWyvern

600 posts! WOW - it didn't seem like THAT many!!! *sitting in shock*
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So Many Alleles, So Little Time...!
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~~The Gecko Barn~~