If you don't know......

[FreddiesMum]

No one knows it all although some people on here think they do! I think most people myself included learn by their mistakes.I have to agree with Taxi once and a while a bit of patience wouldn't go a miss

[Dan]

Not often one of my rants makes 3 pages



One thing in Sparkles epic i noticed was the comment of people thinking they are correct so they say what ever they have to say as fact. This is actually what i would like to see stop. If you THINK you're right then check before you state it as fact. Chances are, if you can't find resources to back up what your saying then it probably is not right.
If you find some back up then you KNOW you are correct and if disputed you can show people that if you're wrong then so are your sources.

As for these people that read a book and know everything. Yes, they drive me nuts too. My problem is that they have read a book and learned the words but don't understand what they mean. For example you can read in many places that male retics will fight when housed together, but you really have no idea what this means until it happens right infront of you.

Then the whole subject of how to treat these people has come up again. Tell me something, would you still be calling for patience if your hognose died because you tried to feed it crickets and it died?
It's very easy to call for patience when the results don't effect you directly.

[sparkle]

was a tad epic wasnt it LOL

thats the problem with something like reptiles though reticulatus...

heres a true example..

my uncles kept snakes for 30 years.. hes a twat and I KNOW he keeps them wrong..

we dont even talk now.. i have no respect for him.. BUT say i did.. say id listened to him without asking others or checking any resources at all..


what then...

now to surmise...

do i listen to a hells angel twat that keeps his snakes wrong... or do i try to find out what the right thing is..

some people with less proactive ability or desire to learn would just listen to the first thing they were told believe it and pass it on..

reptile keeping unfortuantely does not demand an IQ test.... it should.. but it doesnt..

[DJH1]

You definately upped the swearing stakes. You forgot your astrisks! Hate to be diplomatic but i agree with elements of both sides. Making misinformation extinct is important, but there are ways of putting things accross without appearing to attack. I made a goon of myself on a post shortly after joining, by gobbing off on a subject i'd heard about second hand (drunk too). Since then i pretty much stopped contributing. After reading a post by ez4pro the other day i decided i've got to chip in- i've gained a lot from this site and want to. But i'm gonna keep my mush shut unless i 'know,' and have checked!

[Harrison]

If I know the answer I'll say it and if I have no idea then I won't. But if I think I might have the answer but I'm not 100% sure, I will say what I think but explain afterwards that I may be wrong and to take it with a pinch of salt. Then I ask if someone else can confirm or deny what I have said. I'm happy dealing with posts in that manner. But I'll keep my mouth shut if I can't just don't have the answers.

[Dextersdad]

You won't stop people putting their opinions down rightly or wrongly.

If people have half a brain they will collate the info theiy are looking for from many sources on the web.

If they just do it here then that's simply stupid.

No one, not even you has all the RIGHT answers.