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NOOB Signature Question

TheFrogman

TheFrogman

Im just old
Ive notice in other forums and now this one, what are the numbers associated with the animals you all have in your sigs, Ive noticed them before in other forums but never asked what it was.
 
Format is:

0.0.0

which translates to: male.female.unknown/hatchlings.

Example 1.1.1 = 1 male, 1 female, 1 unknown/hatchling
 
You're not in trouble. It's been a long time coming. I hope people read it. Do they ever read the stickies???
 
Haha I am glad to see it as a sticky.. Just hope it gets seen!

After thought... Maybe we should make it part of the agreement when joining that people have to read them! Ha! But that wouldn't work because no one actually reads terms and conditions either.
 
AliCat37 said:
But that wouldn't work because no one actually reads terms and conditions either.
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Off topic, but my pet peeve is within the classifieds when an ad is posted without any pricing or redirecting to another website. I don't recall if these are terms for use of classifieds here but they are at fauna. Ads like those I stop wasting (close the page or navigate off it) my time on as soon as I realize no pricing or a visit my website/blog/Facebook for prices and details is read.
 
HerpsOfNM said:
Off topic, but my pet peeve is within the classifieds when an ad is posted without any pricing or redirecting to another website. I don't recall if these are terms for use of classifieds here but they are at fauna. Ads like those I stop wasting (close the page or navigate off it) my time on as soon as I realize no pricing or a visit my website/blog/Facebook for prices and details is read.
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I agree. I look at a lot of the ads on here, even the ones from the beginning of the year and beyond and wonder if those snakes are even still available, or what the pricing is. I don't feel comfortable pming someone just to ask the price of a snake (or anything else for that matter) especially as a new person getting used to the market.

Personally I don't mind when there is a link to an outside website. But one of my biggest pet peeves is when things are not updated, websites, forums and classifieds alike. It's happened here where I've found an ad in the classified section for an animal, inquired on it, looked at their site, seen it there and then upon further research on someone else's site which is more recently updated seeing the exact animal I inquired on. If I'm really interested in a snake and there's no price, I'll pm for a price... but this stuff really upsets me.
 
Nanci said:
You're not in trouble. It's been a long time coming. I hope people read it. Do they ever read the stickies???
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Apparently not as the answer to that question has been posted in the "Common Terms" stickies located in the Husbandry and Basic Care, The Cultivars (morphs)/Genetics Issues and Miscellaneous Corn Snake Discussions forums in addition to I don't know how many threads asking the same question. And $5.00 says it still gets asked many times despite the new sticky.
 
xoxocammyxoxo said:
I agree. I look at a lot of the ads on here, even the ones from the beginning of the year and beyond and wonder if those snakes are even still available, or what the pricing is. I don't feel comfortable pming someone just to ask the price of a snake (or anything else for that matter) especially as a new person getting used to the market.

Personally I don't mind when there is a link to an outside website. But one of my biggest pet peeves is when things are not updated, websites, forums and classifieds alike. It's happened here where I've found an ad in the classified section for an animal, inquired on it, looked at their site, seen it there and then upon further research on someone else's site which is more recently updated seeing the exact animal I inquired on. If I'm really interested in a snake and there's no price, I'll pm for a price... but this stuff really upsets me.
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Don't get too upset as it works both ways. Despite my website stating in large bold red letters at the top of my Price List page (I don't even have an Available/For Sale page up) that I do not have anything for sale, I get e-mails asking if I have any xyz morph for sale.

Also, checking the date of the original classified post can be a big help in determining if a particular snake is still available or not. I've seen many 12 month and older ads bumped to the top with people asking if such and such was still available. And if the seller hasn't updated it at some point in that amount of time, chances are pretty slim that it's still available.

You also need to remember that on this forum, classified ads can not be edited beyond 30 days from their initial posting unless it is done by a moderator. All that can be done by the OP is to make a post saying that the snake has been sold, but if it's post #37, it might never be read before the question is asked by a new viewer.
 
I remember when 0.0.0 stood for unknown.male.female Made more sense to change to male.female.unknown and drop the "unknown' when pairs 1.1, trios 1.2, etc. are offered.
There is a well known corn snake breeder that I buy from still lists the old way. Took me a minute to figure out that he wasn't bad at sexing snakes LOL. His list had 0.2.4, 0.1.1, 0.3.4, 1.0.0 etc. on it and I thought "man that's a lot of females and unknowns". At that point I knew he was at least as old as me ! ha-ha

As for website links, it's the dead ones that irritate me. Some do post their website link in current ads knowing they haven't updated anything it in years.
 
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