I guess high school is getting to me 
. I have to deal with absolute jerks for 8 hours straight nonstop.
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You know it is!!! DM good to see you, brotha! Maybe
I should stop making so many jokes, this almost went down the dark $1,000 morphmarket winner path… 
Glad to see we can all laugh at it now that it’s all cleared up… I was just joking with riley because he has the same name as the kid, no hard feelings &ofcourse i didn’t REALLY think it was him, that was the whole joke.
Skòl, friends. Hope everyone is having a good night.
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Honestly, man, you are completely fine
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Ok so like an old lady I am confused! 
I have been thinking that this little Riley goat is a real young man (although a bit irritating) on CB. I never associated this Riley with my (our) staff member Riley!
But I also never considered the goat boy to be a troll! 
either! 
. And I am also not sure how this thread turned this way? 
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Same here 
. Never have been good at these kinda things (which I think I made pretty obvious a little bit ago)
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It is quite common in the world of reptile forums, I guess if you don’t have experience with them or are involved in many others then it is probably harder to understand. A lot of (bored) members will start a fake account pretending to be a young kid or a newby to reptile keeping &post the most outrageous things… from obvious extremely wrong housekeeping or husbandry, outlandish claims about venomous snakes being completely harmless or okay for someone to keep around kids/free handle, to even constant, confusing &contradicting suggestions from other members about what “first snake” to get when they known damn well about all previously mentioned things &that they will get a huge rise out of the other members &cause an uproar. As this platform is more of a “facebook” than a reptile forum, I understand that this concept obviously went far over the head of most &was incidentally aimed at more professional &experienced reptile hobbyists. I apologize for the confusion &will now show myself to the corner.
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Actually, we try to be neither of those lol . Facebook is notorious for causing huge issues for the reptile community due to the type of content and allowance of “certain content”. Our aim for the community of MorphMarket is that we all maintain professional type integrity, but also that we foster a sense of family and belonging amongst all keepers, of all knowledge bases. @emerican247 definitely don’t leave, I could tell you were joking, and it might just be that you don’t know me, so my response didn’t come off as joking with you, but it was . On the other hand, I think Coldblooded is trying to be more like Facebook, but with a MorphMarket/reptile-centered twist. Hopefully you will stay around @emerican247
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I remember those days buddy, no worries at all.
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This was too funny man, hope too see you over here more often.
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And that’s why I love it here!
I was a 90s kid, so I basically grew up on the internet (at a time before most parents were aware of the dangers and most didn’t bother to monitor their kids’ online activities), so while this is the only reptile forum I’ve been involved with, I’m all too familiar with the behavior described by @emerican247. But I found that the older I got, the less tolerance I had for that kind of BS. I haven’t even logged into my Facebook account in a decade, and I never got into the other social media platforms. Heck, I even try to avoid the comments sections on YouTube videos, because too often they make me lose all hope for humanity. 
The Internet is definitely a mixed bag. There are absolutely some wonderful things about it, like this community and its wonderful members, having infinite information at our fingertips, and being able to instantly communicate with people all over the world. But with that also comes a whole lotta drama.
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@lumpy oh i’m not going anywhere, don’t you worry. &i wasn’t the one that was confused about any jokes, that was your boy @logar . I’m not sure what exactly you mean or were trying to convey by me making a joke about you being someone else has to do with paranoia but the presence of emojis & since it made no sense whatsoever- yeah, I could tell you weren’t being serious.
@dsed I’m glad you understood the humor in my comment &I will make sure to be more active in my postings over here as i have been on coldblooded. I’ve made a few posts over in the tree boa area here so far &have been asked to keep updating people on a few of my animals so i will do my best to oblige. I don’t have facebook or instagram or any of that ■■■■ for the same reasons as previously listed &honestly have never had any trouble in trying to get rid of any of the animals that I produce so I’m not sure how much I will even need to list on Morphmarket but I have found a few nice additions to my breeding programs &quite a few new friends so i definitely find it helpful &am enjoying the other pages connected with it as well. I am glad to hear that this outlet is trying to be as far from facebook as possible, that is definitely a good sign!
Hope everyone is havong a wonderful day,
Skòl
MP3
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Well @emerican247 I am certainly glad you are here as well! I am another one who doesn’t do Facebook or any of the other social media sites out there. It a personal preference for everyone!
I am starting my second year on MM and I consider the people here my reptilian family! There are so many good folks that I would so love to meet in person. They know their stuff and will jump in to advise, help out, and even console a broken heart from the loss of an animal. Though this union is not perfect (we do have our moments ) it’s pretty darn close imho.
Tbh I’m not that crazy about CB. I have seen a couple of things that imho should have been taken down immediately. The MM staff would have addressed it in a New York skinny minute. The only thing they expect of us is to honor the MMC guidelines, which we have acknowledged we will do. Which we should do.
Again do please stay like you said you would! Absolutely NO CORNERS for you! And again btw, whoever that person/goat kid is, he? is on the CB side is extremely irritating! Another good reason for me to stay away! However I may have to eat crow after this statement. I have had to eat crow a couple of times before…… 
Have a blessed evening! 
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yeah me neither. I definitely like it over here a lot more. It just seems that everyone is a lot less… connected if that makes sense.
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@caron @logar well thank you so much for the warm welcome. I love sharing my knowledge &experiences with others in hopes that they look past the bad rap that arboreal species have &gain insight into all the wonderful aspects they have to offer. When I made the similarity to facebook comment, I was definitely meaning CB as opposed to MMC but they all seem to be interconnected or under the same entity. &some parts of it do seem tiresome but i do enjoy seeing all the cute animals in their environments that their loving keepers set up for them… even if 90% of them are boring ball pythons
They’re still cute.
Skòl,
MP3
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Just to clear up why they are separate. Here on the MRC we allow people to join at age 13+ and are dedicated to having a family friendly environment. If your son or daughter gets involved in reptiles, we want you to know they are in safe hands up in here. Everything is PG and education based … and heavily moderated to keep it as such. We have a team of 15+ volunteer moderators from all walks of life, whose sole goal is to keep the place welcoming. This is much more like the forums you remember of the past, but on an extremely amazing platform,… and less crazy people. (well, we do have @akmorphs, but you learn to love her craziness 
)
ColdBlooded is a full blown social media, with very light moderation. You must be 16+ to join and some content on there is beyond what we would allow here on the MRC. While it has educational aspects, the goal of CB is simply to help you connect with other members of the community, events and listings. Basically reptile Facebook. A lot of the posts we would have deleted from here 12 months ago are now being posted on CB instead.
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Thank you so much for the explanation Thomas! This accounts for a lot of what I have seen on CB! Which makes me appreciate what you guys do here on MMC even more! 
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Yes, this is the impression that I was getting. Thank you for clarifying!
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I definitely want to see the babies from that Halloween ATB of yours! If I ever get into true arboreals, ATBs are at the top of my list, so I’m always excited to hear from folks who have experience with them. (And of course, I love looking at pictures of them because they’re so freaking gorgeous.)
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Someone’s gotta keep it interesting for the staff 
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