Lost our way?

[Garter_Gertie]

I see your point, James. And I have to agree. However, there are many long-time family members here that have other snakes. And they're comfy and happy here, love this place and the people here, and can't help but crow about their non-Thamnophis kids.

Maybe a place called something like "Members Non-Thamnophis Discussions." Because I think, at least for me, what brought me here and xcited me is this place IS devoted to garters. But when I get my Hoggy, I want to share it all with you guys, too. Because I like it here. There's a good feeling. You can see that from almost everyone that posts - no matter what they post about.

You know what I mean?

[infernalis]

My 2 cents,

If non tham chat were kept in the "lounge" where non tham discussions are encouraged, it would free the Tham specific areas of "see my new puppy" type posts.

A suggestion would also be to provide maybe a "General reptile" or General "Herp" area, and just simply ask that talking about other critters be there.

One of the reasons I no longer sit here logged on to kingsnake was the LACK of camaraderie, My snakes better than yours type experience.

Now to take Gertie's standpoint for a moment, a lot of times we will have an encounter that may be of little interest to most of the world, and the desire to share with someone, anyone, will just post it up for everyone to read, and of course all the friendly folks will post even a one liner in reply.

I don't want to bash any other forums or even find a lot of fault, KS is way too big, too many forums, too many specialties and way to many specialists. The mods show favoritism toward the big advertisers, who can speak freely about anything, everyone else has posts vanish at some point for no reason or explanation.

Isn't there some way to accomplish the best of both worlds?

Really if everyone kept the general banter to the "rooms" designated for such, the Tham specific areas would not seem so cluttered up.

I'm sure a balance can be struck.

Regards,
Wayne