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Controversial Topic #2: Advice

One thing to remember is that even though some of the members are new to this forum, they may not be newbies in the sense of not knowing snakes. They may have been breeding snakes since Jesus lost his sandals and just happened to find the forum and join. So just because someone has only 1 answered post, they may be knowlegable. You just never know.
 
Dean

good point !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I get a kick out of a poster who will one day ask questions such as "should I put a water bowl in with my snake" and the next day give advise on evrything from egg binding to internal parasites.
I didn't read all the responses on this thread so this may have been touched on but I also get the
"must spread reputation points around before giving to Dean"
I have been getting this for months.
I think there is something in your settings they may somehow be blocking rep points.
Just as a test I went through one day and gave rep points to 5 different people. ( all in posts I felt the points were deserving) and then went back to give you (Dean) rep points and it still gave the same message.
Since then I have distributed quite a few rep points and still get the same message when trying to give you rep points.
 
:smash: GUILTY! :smash: (those are judges- LOL)

About this time last year I felt like I knew what I was talking about - I got my 1st snake in February 2005 and asked all the typical newb questions, and by June I was the proud owner of 4 corns. So somebody even newer to the hobby than me asked some question and I felt qualified to answer it . . .

But I was wrong. And some more experienced folk set me straight pretty quick.

And I apologized for my bad advice and said "hey, these people know better, so listen to them!"

I was just offering up what I'd read, not anything I'd done myself.

It was slightly embarrassing, but I learned a couple things. I learned that I was mistaken about something regarding corn keeping, and I learned that I shouldn't offer advice on things I didn't actually have experience with.

So, I don't think that someone offering up some bad advice is the worst thing they could do, if they are really trying to be nice and helpful, maybe they will learn something from it as well. :shrugs:

But it is frustrating when a newb asks asks a question and another newb answers with bad advice, then someone who knows what he or she is talking about's good advice is discarded because bad advice suits the questioner's purposes more. It happens! However, the bottom line is that the person probably would have just done what they wanted in the first place.

So I think this thread might be valuable if a newb were to read it and realize that not everybody knows what they are talking about, and on some topics there is disagreement on the best method. But I don't think newbs should necessarily be discouraged from giving advice.

I remember when I was a new mother, you wouldn't BELIEVE all the bad advice I got!!! But somehow my son survived it all. :) However, no matter what someone else tells you to do, you've still got to use your own head!!!
 
Thanks for all the great replies! :)

Jimmy Johnson said:
good point !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I get a kick out of a poster who will one day ask questions such as "should I put a water bowl in with my snake" and the next day give advise on evrything from egg binding to internal parasites.
I didn't read all the responses on this thread so this may have been touched on but I also get the
"must spread reputation points around before giving to Dean"
I have been getting this for months.
I think there is something in your settings they may somehow be blocking rep points.
Just as a test I went through one day and gave rep points to 5 different people. ( all in posts I felt the points were deserving) and then went back to give you (Dean) rep points and it still gave the same message.
Since then I have distributed quite a few rep points and still get the same message when trying to give you rep points.
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Well, I'll consider myself 'repped' right here, Jimmy. I don't really care about the actual points. :) I receive them, so I'm not blocked, but I think you have to rep 20 other different posters before you can rep me again.
 
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