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by NigerDeltaMann on 10 February 2016 - 01:02
Greetings everyone. It's really being a long while I last posted here, a couple of years now, that I can even bet i'm a bit grown. Could anyone here send me words about Hodie, or best get me her contact? I believed, she stopped posting a while before I stopped too, so couldn't get to reaching her(she stays somewhere in Grand Rapids, Colorado, if I'm not mistaken). I'll appreciate, for she taught me some almost magical tricks in bonding and overcoming nervousness of my GSD then. Anyone can do well to help me
by NigerDeltaMann on 10 February 2016 - 02:02
by Ibrahim on 10 February 2016 - 02:02
by Hundmutter on 10 February 2016 - 19:02
may know how to get in touch with Hodie; if I am correct, you might
be able to get your message through by PM-ing him ? (Sorry, Mick,
if I am wrong or out of line with that suggestion ?) Hodie's posts
were before my participation in PDB but I gather Hodie was an
interesting and useful poster, and we can always use more of those!
by GSD Admin on 11 February 2016 - 05:02
by Sunsilver on 11 February 2016 - 05:02
I also remember her being treated extremely rudely by a new member here. I remember thinking 'WHOAH! You have NO IDEA who you are talking to! You don't treat royalty that way!"
by Hundmutter on 11 February 2016 - 09:02
@SS - "royalty"? Seriously ? I thought the point of posting on social media under a 'username' was the anonymity it provides; if someone is a really big 'star' of the dog world, but they don't post under an alias, if they use their real name, then everyone else can show them appropriate 'deference'.
Or not !
That IS NOT the same as being downright nasty, and I am in no way excusing whatever was done and said to Hodie at the time she last posted here. But if she is one anonymous poster and I am another anonymous poster, I could say I thought she - or anyone in a similar position - was plain wrong about something; I should be able to do that [without being insulting, of course] without fear or favour of her being a Best In Show Judge, doyen of the main breed club, or whatever else her credentials were.
And that, actually, is how it should be. This is an international website, we don't all even KNOW who such "royalty" are or what they've done, or the respect they have earned for xty-umph years ... Add in the turnover of people using the site, with so many 'breeders' here today & gone tomorrow, some never really learn about "Who's Who", and there is a lot of room for posters simply not to know they are addressing "royalty".
Prime example : David Payne / Videx has given up on posting to PDB - I know he can give as good as he got; but some of the things written to him on here over the years showed nil regard for his then 'standing' in the GSD community in the UK. Posters were not all able to excuse themselves by being foreigners (well, ok, mainly North American) and not really aware of "who he was". And the only alias he masked himself with was his Kennel Name. But I do not recall a single 'regular' saying "You don't treat an important breeder and source of information that way." Nor, to be fair, need they have done so, except where somebody had been actively RUDE or VICIOUS.
Sorry, guys, if this strikes any of you as OT, (or even OTT !), but I think it's a point worth making. (Signed: Linda Swift - and nobody knows who the hell I am ! )
by Sunsilver on 11 February 2016 - 13:02
Re. David Payne: let's just say you reap what you sow on the net. David had a habit with rubbing people the wrong way. It was his way or the highway, and he could be damn rude to people.
by Hundmutter on 11 February 2016 - 18:02
Sunny, he was and he did ! That doesn't invalidate my point. You said yourself you thought the obnoxious poster was 'new'; could be they had no idea WHO they were being horrible to - but that actually should not have mattered, one way or t'other. Neither you, nor I; nor Hodie; nor David P should have had to put up with some of the nonsense that gets chucked around, but the onus is on the poster doing the insulting, not about who we are/were, or did/didn't say to anyone else.
The one time I got 'picked up' by the mods (ages ago now) for being unnecessarily confrontational with another poster, he'd actually started throwing the insults; I had started off by just disagreeing with him. I disputed at that time that I had argued any differently to half a dozen other posters on his thred, he just chose me to begin to get nasty with, and then he reported me on top of that. He and the admins were correct in that what I'd said was over the top - but I would not have had a clue at that time how "royal", or not, he was in the dog world. And if he had been famous in some way, it would not have made a jot of difference to me, or to what I called him.
by Bavarian Wagon on 11 February 2016 - 22:02
I see it all the time…post that a dog got high in trial without posting where, how big of a trial it was, or what the final score of the dog was. There’s also the ever popular…I sold a dog to a police department so I’m an amazing breeder…yet it’s a small police department in the middle of no where that has no need for a K9 and it’s just an officer bringing his personal GSD along for the ride. The dog ends up being a promotional tool that goes to the local elementary school once in a while and shows off some tricks.
The majority of forum readers eat that stuff up without digging deeper into the information being provided. They place those people on pedestals and then defend them like they're best friends and have known them for ages. Sorry, I've been "do you know who you're talking to"d before. And my response was...do you even know who you're defending?
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