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Remove yourself from the audience

Hannah on Behavior - Sun, December 30 2007

There always seems to be a few posting of people trying to dump their animals or posting hateful nonsense on this site. While everyone has the right to post as they wish and respond as they wish, take this into consideration. When you respond to someone's post you are giving the person an audience. This is fun when we get to share positively about our pets and not so fun when it becomes a hateful argument. If you continue to respond to the postings, they continue to pop up to the top and the person you disagree with so much continues to receive attention. If you choose to ignore the posting, the posting quickly disappears behind new postings and the post receives no attention. Those who receive no attention will either choose to no longer post or will begin changing their posts to a more positive subject that others are more likely to respond to. You also have the option of sending a private message if you want to respond, but don't want to enlarge a public discussion. Same as playground rules: kids who don't play nice will play by themselves or eventually learn to play with others.

Daphne Marie on Dec 30 at 08:21 AM

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Good point.

Cooter Brown on Dec 30 at 10:26 AM

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True.

Batman on Dec 30 at 10:47 AM

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well said!

Sugar on Dec 30 at 10:58 AM

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I agree, good point. Although I may have done that a couple of times...

Lady Penelope on Dec 30 at 11:25 AM

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I totally agree with you, Hannah - though, I've been guilty of that a couple times myself. Yet, I did like Sugar's comment on that one post!!

Charlie on Dec 30 at 11:36 AM

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That's exactly why I don't write anything on those posts. Others are more well-spoken, so I am happy to let the rest of you do the scolding! =)

Jersey Joe on Dec 30 at 04:25 PM

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i want to add that we, as a group, police this site. any time you see anything you think is inappropriate, click on "report this post", which is right under the post. if they are bothering you at all in private messages, contact the site manager. i have posted on message boards a lot over the years (many AOL boards, which can have some really nasty posts) and people that are starting stuff are called "trolls". one saying we have is "DON'T FEED THE TROLLS". any time we respond to the trolls, we are feeding them the attention they want. if they get no attention to the posts they put up, eventually they will go away. this site is much better than AOL, though, because we can report people and actually get posts pulled. on AOL, they never do anything.

Buster on Dec 30 at 05:18 PM

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Amen.

Kirby on Dec 30 at 05:22 PM

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You are right Hannah. Sometimes it's just so hard to be quite though, ya know? I'm going to try real hard to "not feed the trolls".

Thunders' Mom on Dec 30 at 06:48 PM

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You have a good point some people are very close minded I know a few very well, they are not open to anything. But alot of people have different experiences and situations as to their own opinions, and no matter how much we would all like to change their opinions but that doesn't always happen. However this is a forum to voice opinions, its called the freedom of speech and no matter what we personally see as good or bad, is again strictly ones personal opinion.

Hannah on Dec 30 at 07:23 PM

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No pointing fingers here, we've all done it and everyone should post as they wish. I once wrote a lengthy response to someone on this site who wrote a very insulting message to me...then deleted what I wrote and didn't send it. I felt better, the situation stopped there because I never responded and I avoided stooping to troll level.

Buster on Jan 04 at 11:18 AM

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Just felt the need to bring this post forward again......please don't feed the trolls.

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