I think saying "you are all stuck up snobs" is a bit presumptuous, because there are many of us who give information without being rude. However, I often read threads and see a comment someone has posted that's excessively harsh and rude. I want to smack those people over the head, because I dealt with the same type of situation when I came to the rat forums.
I thought I had an accidental pregnancy (this was on goosemoose), as the result of my boyfriend convincing me that they weren't fertile until much older than 5 wks and sticking my baby girl in the boy's cage (where she was humped by her father). I was actually accused of *wanting* her to be pregnant by another member, and I got many, many horrible comments about how irresponsible I was for believing someone who had owned rats for years, etc. I actually left the community for a while, because I was so offended. I'm on a lot of other message boards for art, and I've never encountered a community that can be as rude and downright mean at times. In fact, the art boards have unbelievably nice, generous people who have sent me gifts for no apparent reason, and are willing to bend over backwards to help you out. Talk about a serious contrast!
So yeah, there are some big @$$holes. But there are a lot of us who are not. Basically, you just have to ignore them and get used to the fact that some people appear to get off on glorifying their know-it-all nature and playing holier-than-thou.
I thought I had an accidental pregnancy (this was on goosemoose), as the result of my boyfriend convincing me that they weren't fertile until much older than 5 wks and sticking my baby girl in the boy's cage (where she was humped by her father). I was actually accused of *wanting* her to be pregnant by another member, and I got many, many horrible comments about how irresponsible I was for believing someone who had owned rats for years, etc. I actually left the community for a while, because I was so offended. I'm on a lot of other message boards for art, and I've never encountered a community that can be as rude and downright mean at times. In fact, the art boards have unbelievably nice, generous people who have sent me gifts for no apparent reason, and are willing to bend over backwards to help you out. Talk about a serious contrast!
So yeah, there are some big @$$holes. But there are a lot of us who are not. Basically, you just have to ignore them and get used to the fact that some people appear to get off on glorifying their know-it-all nature and playing holier-than-thou.
