Maybe its just me, maybe its quarantine but it feels like there is an inordinate amount of posters who are asking questions that they apparently already knew the answers to. Damn you, Corona!
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Yes. Next question?Do I put the toothpaste on the toothbrush before or after i brush my teeth?
I still dont understand how you say u read the care thread and then ask “what substrate should i use?”
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Them:"i did tons of research but..."
Us: You might want to consider...
Them: I'll stick with my way
Some guy in that thread ripped me off for some incandescent light bulbs.sometimes its like a “no moderators allowed” post
Some guy tried to trade me some incandescent light bulbs for an aldabraSome guy in that thread ripped me off for some incandescent light bulbs.
People have a Ego Tom, lol.This all seems pretty normal to me. It goes in cycles.
Be patient with the new people. We were all there and the info out in the world is nothing but a bunch of contradictions now. I don't know why you lot decided to listen to us here at TFO, but you'll all agree that your tortoises are better off for it. If we fail to get through to them, its their tortoise that suffers.
Personally, I'm glad they've come here, and glad to at least get the chance to talk to them. I can't even count how many new people have gotten pissy and left the forum because I wouldn't tell them what they wanted to hear. When that happens, I truly don't care about that person's feeling, but I'm haunted by the suffering I know their tortoise is going to endure because I pissed them off. Those thoughts have made me more and more careful and diplomatic over the years. I can't please everybody, but I do want to help their tortoises.
True. I've been accused of that too. I just laugh because people who say that about me don't know me at all. There is no ego in this for me. I'm motivated by the guilt I feel for doing it wrong for so many years. I get insistent and pushy and argumentative, not so I can look like a cool guy and "win" the argument. I want to HELP the tortoises, and I know what I know.People have a Ego Tom, lol.
It takes part of their emotions, they don’t like being corrected in some degree, just my opinion.True. I've been accused of that too. I just laugh because people who say that about me don't know me at all. There is no ego in this for me. I'm motivated by the guilt I feel for doing it wrong for so many years. I get insistent and pushy and argumentative, not so I can look like a cool guy and "win" the argument. I want to HELP the tortoises, and I know what I know.
Ask any of the numerous people here who have shot me down and showed me I was wrong about something. Yvonne, Maggie, Will, Mark... There have been many over the years. I thank them for correcting me.
For new people coming in, I usually don't see ego. I see frustration. Understandable frustration when they find out that hours of "research" led them to the wrong stuff and we tell them that its all wrong and they wasted all that time and money. I'd be mad too, but also glad that I now had the correct info.