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Originally Posted by ghosthousecorns
It started with the DYK thread, watching the same people chat about random stuff and rep each other over and over. Then the social groups thing, because ONE random thread wasn't enough I guess?
It gets old to wade through the drivel and try to find relevant things.
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Jen, you've got to know that you are one of my favorite people here but I had to respond to this...
The DYK thread is very easy to skip over and I find that the social groups are a PITA to get to from the main screen. So I don't really understand the "having to wade through it" part.
For me DYK is a stress relief sounding board. I'm very stressed out in general right now, my brain is so busy solving my own problems all day it gets too tired to solve controversial snake topics. For some reason it is just relaxing for me to go somewhere for a bit and talk to people about their day and tell them about mine. Some stuff in there is completely useless, but a lot of times there are things that are really important to people but they don't feel it's important/relevant enough for it's own thread. DYK kind of gives them an outlet for that. I'd imagine without DYK there would be a lot more threads started in GCC about random things, at least DYK keeps it more concentrated and easier to skip over for those who are not interested.
I think another part of the problem is that lately there seems to be a lot of confrontational newbies or overly sensitive posters. The last few interesting threads I was involved in got totally derailed by beginners knowing it all and not wanting to take advice. Or if you state any kind of constructive criticism people get their feelings hurt and think you are being mean. Are people coming here for correct information and honest educated opinions or are they just looking for a pat on the back over everything they are doing regardless if it's for the best of their animal or their place in this hobby?
So many times people ask for help and opinions and you have to walk on eggshells making sure your response doesn't set them off. Sometimes having very well thought out responses rejected by those who asked for it sends me to my DYK happy place.
Maybe a little bit is also due to the fact that I've been breeding enough years to have developed what works for me. I have little interest in changing anything unless it would really impact my corns heath for the better. I also have no interest in convincing anyone that my way is best. So that really leaves me with not much to say in the cornsnake posts. Especially since the rash of confrontational newbie posts. They can make a belt out of their cornsnake for all I care, it's a free country. I could use my useless logic on them from dawn until dusk and I won't get anywhere so why waste my time?