Rant about our behavior

[PhilinYuma]

You're right, Rich, I was off the mark, but every time you mention your advancing years, I have this stupid urge to giggle. Let me redress my gaffe by honoring your request and telling you where your duty lies. What you have to ask yourself is this: is the forum helped more by your reporting a bad deal in the breeders' feedback, which is designed for that,or by giving us all advice on how to follow the Golden Rule, ready or not? If you go for the first option, as i think you will, you win.

Let me add a caveat, however. If, as in the case you posted on #17, you assert on the forum that the dealer is a liar without any more evidence than your comparison between the size of his/her nymphs and yours, you are not only likely to cause some very bad feeling but risk the possibility of a libel suit.

Most of us who have been doing this for a while would just let it go by and not buy from him/her again. "Live and let live" is not only a good moral principal, but for us arteriosclerotic old farts, it's good for the blood pressure, too.

 

[sporeworld]

If, as in the case you posted on #17,

Learn something new everyday. I did NOT realize the posts were numbered. Lost all track of what you were talking about and just raced to find the #'s.

 

[Termite48]

Phil, I know you mean well and I always enjoy your postings. This is for everyone reading this posting. I never call anyone a liar. When asking for the instar, I assume one keeps track of the molts. In the absence of such a log, them comparing the size with others that are documented, seems to me to be a good start, and knowing that there can be slow growth in any species, it is the times it molted that is imoprtant. Feeding and temperature can take care of some of the issues. The point is that when one posts that he has L-4s for sale and they arrive looking like my L-2s, a red flag does fly. That does not mean that the seller is a liar. When this matter cannot be worked out between seller and buyer, there is a point where it needs to be mentioned in the Feedback section. Starting a new thread about issues that are present in the forum does the greater good in my opinion and it is not meant to be a continued discussion about anyone in particular, but a look at all our practices. Being an old fart, and having had to adhere to many very stringent rules of practicing my profession in real estate and in real estate development, there is a gap between what I am used to and what is being done here on the forum as far as commerce ethics and practices are concerned.