I wasn’t going to get into this but I’m just in awe by the attitude many of the new posters are taking with the rest of the forum members who have nothing to gain from being here other then help you. The fact of the matter is, almost every shred of information anyone posts on this forum is easily accessible if the poster spent some time doing their own research. Forum members take time out of their own lives and commitments to provide resources and information to you for the benefit of your animals, even if a quick search by the original poster could yield the same results. There are a number of very experienced individuals on this forum who spend a lot of time answering questions and trying to help and I think the results are obvious when you compare the illness and death rates of chameleons on this forum versus other forums.
Obviously a number of new posters seem to feel recent posts by myself and a few others were unjustified or that it somehow indicates that they will be treated unfairly in their own posts. The forum members here (including myself typically) are quite tolerant of questions from experienced and new keepers alike and make every effort to make people feel welcome. By far the majority of questions are addressed completely by multiple individuals. Obviously, different members post with differing regularity based on their own commitments, whether others have appropriately answered a question already or not and their own experience. They don’t selectively post by who buys stuff from them and doesn’t. Very few individuals are ever targeted by anyone and those that ever are, have really done quite a bit to make others feel it is necessary.
Typically, the forum members advise, make recommendations and tell people what needs to be done in a very kind manner. Generally, such information and recommendations are taken quite well and the animals do excellently. In other cases, the keeper doesn’t listen for whatever reason and their animals very frequently suffer. At a certain point, it becomes obvious that sugar coating and holding an individual’s hand through their failures and shortcomings is not benefiting that person’s animals. At this point, those individuals need to be told how it is. I couldn’t care less if I hurt someone’s feelings once they’ve proven they aren’t progressing at all with the sugar coated hand holding they’ve been given and aren’t going to make the right choices on their own. We are here for the benefit of the animals, and if that means someone gets their toes stepped on because they aren’t responding to anything else when they need to, my personal opinion is good, maybe it’ll get through to them and if not, it isn’t like we hadn’t tried it nicely already. Forum members aren’t going to tell you that its okay and that you did your best when you didn’t and have shown over time that you aren’t going to even when you know better.
In this case, the poster has exhibited a prolonged history of choices that have negatively impacted the animals, have been only in the interest of making the poster’s life easier and in some cases, what I’d call blatant neglect and abuse. Putting off vet visits despite being told about the severity of the situations, breeding females far too young after being told it wasn’t safe, trying repeatedly to self administer meds without a reason or vet assistance, and the list goes on. They’ve had the benefit of sugar coating and hand holding for a year and have not at any point altered such behavior.
Further, often posts on a forum can be misinterpreted. A lot of posters cut the chit chat and get right to the point without any fluffing. Its not cause they are arrogant or rude or think you aren't worthy, its just the way they post - straight to the point. A lot can be misinterpreted online and even if you think something is meant one way, its probably best to relax and try to see it differently or wait and see if that poster acts differently with you then other threads.
If a poster is open to suggestions when they come here for advice, shows that they are serious about the best interest of their animal, makes an effort to learn what they need to and doesn’t start spreading poor advice themselves, they will be well received, their questions will be answered to the best of the forum member’s abilities, they will be able to benefit themselves and others on the forum (experienced and new keepers alike) and you’ll likely make friends. If a poster asks questions and then rejects the advice because it requires more of an effort then they want to put in, refuses to act in the best interest of the animal (take them to the vet, don’t breed the cham too young, etc.), makes it clear they are only here to be spoon fed or go on to spread bad information, that person will probably not be very popular and it will be pretty obvious. Basically, if you want help or have something you want to talk about with other forum members, don’t waste everyone’s time who is trying to help and this will be a very friendly forum and you’ll enjoy yourself.
But hey, that’s just my opinion…like it or not.
Chris
(or is it visa-versa 
). Anyway, I certainly wasn't an English major, so I have to rely on myself to stop and think about it as if I was a doctor who was just asked by a 13yr-old about how often is it safe to have unprotected sex. The doctor is about to launch into a tirade from multiple directions when he realizes that facts have to be presented in such a way that it will be constructive yet get the total message across including the other "issues". Well, anyway, I hope you get the idea. Remember, this post is also a good example of WHY I wasn't an English major as much as anything 
