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To Susan, Carol, Kathy, and all those here in 2002

Camby said:
Now, some of those names would be recognizeable to people joining in the last two years and to others, they wouldn't have a clue who they are, BUT they would likely recognize a person on here that has made 40,000 plus posts since joining in 2005 or another that has made nearly 2,000 posts since joining in the spring of this year. These later two are many times looked at as expert and the three others may be overlooked.
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I guess there's also someone who might have joined in 2009 or 2010 who has a vast amount of knowledge and has been keeping corns for years without the internet, but who's posts I disregaurd because of their year join date. :shrugs:

Ahh well.. I get annoyed with the people who pop out of no where and seem to "rule" the site for awhile too.. but.. seems like they only last for a year or so. Sheesh, we've lost enough great members to disputes or other hobbies / whatnot. We can at least lose the annoying know-it-all noob as well!!!

For the first two years or two I think I made about... 20 posts. hahaha. Maybe 1 thread.
 
Me personally, I don't pay attention to post counts or anything like that. Judging someone by their join date or post count to me is akin to a silly game that kids play... "I've got more GI Joes than you so I'm better than you." It's fairly easy to sort the truth from the fodder and after a while you can tell if the person knows what they are talking about or not pretty quickly.
 
I came here initially to learn about corns as a newbie owner. I stayed because of the community. I post/thread most in the general area. I feel comfortable owning and caring for the snakes/reptiles I have but not comfortable giving advice to others. Usually my only expert advice is to point newbies to the real experts here. (there are many more qualified than I to give advice)
 
tsst said:
I came here initially to learn about corns as a newbie owner. I stayed because of the community. I post/thread most in the general area. I feel comfortable owning and caring for the snakes/reptiles I have but not comfortable giving advice to others. Usually my only expert advice is to point newbies to the real experts here. (there are many more qualified than I to give advice)
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This sounds like me. I admit I do recycle expert advice, like cut & pasting the Munson plan while preserving the label. I'm pretty good at search techniques so I can find something one of the genuine experts posted (like Kathy's regurge protocol) when somebody asks about those issues & is apparently too stressed to find it by searching. But I'm careful to make sure it is LABELLED as hers because I don't want people to think I know more than I do. I figure I do no harm in cutting & pasting as long as I am not giving the impression I wrote it.
 
There is expert advice, and then there is an actual, practical experience, which even novices can contribute. I'm a snake-keeping noobie, but I have had the experience (for example) of losing and finding a snake. When it happened to me, I read every thread on every forum I could find about lost snakes. I documented my experience on the lost snake forum of ks.com and shared it with a few owners on here who have lost their snakes. The purpose is not to offer advice from the standpoint of an expert, but to add to our pool of experiences as a community. That serves to expand our knowledge of an issue.
 
abell82 said:
FYI. I've been around since 02. One of the things that has changed, is that when the site started, users were asked to delete their threads, to keep band width usage down. Many posts were deleted, because of this. This often resulted in a new member asking the same (or similar) question in a new post a few days later. Many members got tired of this and quit deleting there posts.
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I'm sorry, but I just don't believe this is accurate. Perhaps with the CLASSIFIEDS, but certainly not with the discussion forums. Bandwidth is not measured by the number of posts or threads on a forum, but by the number of SIMULTANEOUS reads and writes taking place from the server. As far as STORAGE, vBulletin is only limited by the size of the hard drive in the server as to the number and size of posts and threads.
 
Rich Z said:
I'm sorry, but I just don't believe this is accurate. Perhaps with the CLASSIFIEDS, but certainly not with the discussion forums. Bandwidth is not measured by the number of posts or threads on a forum, but by the number of SIMULTANEOUS reads and writes taking place from the server. As far as STORAGE, vBulletin is only limited by the size of the hard drive in the server as to the number and size of posts and threads.
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So are you saying we were never asked to delete our threads once they were answered, in the beginning, or just that it wasn't based on band width? :shrugs:
 
abell82 said:
So are you saying we were never asked to delete our threads once they were answered, in the beginning, or just that it wasn't based on band width? :shrugs:
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Not on this site, as best I can recall. Now when I had the forum on SerpenCo.com, and was using an antiquated script that tended to crash once the file size reached roughly 400K, yes, I did. Perhaps CornSnakes.com briefly used that same old script that was based on the usenet method of BBS messaging, which in that case, yes, you would be correct. But as long as this site has been running on vBulletin, there were no issues existent at all that would have had me asking people to delete their posts or threads.

Heck, I'm trying to remember how this site came about and the memory is hazy. I'll have to try to think about it a bit... I know both this and FaunaClassifieds (which actually began as HerpWantAds) all originated from a message board script I had on SerpenCo.com, but I'm not sure about the details nor the timing right now.
 
Rich Z said:
but I'm not sure about the details nor the timing right now.
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it must not have been conceived on November 5, 1955 when he slipped and hit his head on his bathroom sink while standing on the toilet to hang a clock ... like the flux capacitor, that you would have remembered
 
I have skimmed through this thread and several things really disturb me. People, this is a free website. There are no restrictions of ones knowledge or experience. If you really wish for it to be like that it would die. There would be no more CS.com. Are cornsnakes difficult snakes to own, and as it has been proven MORONS! can keep them alive with a lot of neglect and corner cutting. If you feel that only the elite should be able to post you are taking the point out of a forum. People come to LEARN, not to be spoken down to as if they are less of a person because they are not a snake nerd. Look at me when I first showed up and look at me now! CS.com helped me get to that point. If you think about it sometimes the people with less experience make more sense than the ones with experience. And people, it is a computer based website. You can say you own this that and the other thing and you have the best husbandry or the best snakes but really it comes down to proving it, as we have seen in the past few months on this site.
 
I don't remember anyone ever talking about deleting posts or threads to save space / bandwidth. But I think the site changed a lot either just before or just after I came. And for the first year or so, I was mostly an occasional lurker and didn't post much. So I wasn't totally aware of everything that was going on back then.
 
If you feel that only the elite should be able to post you are taking the point out of a forum. People come to LEARN, not to be spoken down to as if they are less of a person because they are not a snake nerd.
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Not sure I've seen that anywhere in this thread? I think the general thrust is that people can choose who to take advice from, but that post count or membership length aren't necessarily indicators of expertise. Not everyone with a high post count has an opinion worth looking at. But by the same token, someone who's only just joined and made few posts may be an expert in their field and should be taken very seriously.

i.e. in your own words:
You can say you own this that and the other thing and you have the best husbandry or the best snakes but really it comes down to proving it
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As for:
If you think about it sometimes the people with less experience make more sense than the ones with experience.
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That's common to all board members, regardless of experience, post count, membership length etc. I don't think you'd find anyone disagreeing.




Look at me when I first showed up and look at me now!
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Mmm, well, quite. ;)
 
Yea..I confused too

abell82 said:
FYI. I've been around since 02. One of the things that has changed, is that when the site started, users were asked to delete their threads, to keep band width usage down. Many posts were deleted, because of this. This often resulted in a new member asking the same (or similar) question in a new post a few days later. Many members got tired of this and quit deleting there posts. Band width got larger, and then Memberships were born. To delete a post, you then had to be a paid member.
This site has lost many posters over the years. A few were for the better, but many more were not.
Kingsnakes.com is not a forum, but rather a message board. It's an acquired taste. I still post there from time to time.
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As far as deleting post..I by can still read post for 2002 in the Archives, so I'm not sure what you mean deleting post.
 
This is the first forum I ever looked at/joined. After getting back into corns in '04 it took me a few years to decide to look for info on corns on the interwebs.... I found this place as the first google result for cornsnake forum.... I like it a lot! There are a few "know-it-alls" but it seems you get that on most forums. I feel like I have learned a lot by hanging out here.

Now, anytime I even THINK about a new hobby or past-time or what-have-you, I look for a forum dedicated to it before-hand! :D
 
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