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by beetree on 09 October 2018 - 02:10

Rose@GSDAdmin


GSD Admin (admin)

by GSD Admin on 09 October 2018 - 03:10

You have to admit I took on some heavy shit as SP and I made it real in your face honesty. I first came here in 2002. Before this site was even PDB. What I saw back in 2003 and 4 was pretty awesome. When I had time in 2005 I signed up my first user name but didn't post in the forums. I was about selling dogs at the time so no need to really post in the forums. But life got busy for me and I left (mostly) until 2008ish and when I cam back I was mortified at the total trash heap of the American forum (general) because up until 2009 mostly people from Europe posted on the GSD forum. By 2009 I all of a sudden wasn't busy any longer and that is when SP hit. All I ever wanted was to get this place back to 2003ish, the rawness was fine, the flair was fine, the drama was fine but I could not stand the racism, sexism, trollism and ruthlessness that it had become. I studied the members for months, their interactions, their posts, how they treated others and I decided to create SP and fight back, I befriended those I thought could help me in the battle to get Oli's site back to what it was in the early days. I made mistakes, I listened to people I should not have listened to, and I became bitter at times because the ones I thought were my friends (same wants and dislikes) were really not, they had their own agendas and motivations.

You may ask why I tell this story but I think it important that new members know (our) my side of what happened. There are many reasons members left and they all aren't on admin, believe it or not, there are many who left because of the members themselves. Facebook was born in 2004 and exploded by 2007, it had an affect. Other sites stole Oli's pedigrees and opened their own sites. The ads don't help, either. Many many reasons for the decline in participation on PDB. There are plenty of people still here but most don't participate on the forums. They are entering pedigrees, searching for or selling dogs.

This site is still a social networking site to a degree. Will it ever be Facebook? Nope, it was never meant to be a Facebook. It was meant to be a database of GSD pedigrees. We have the largest (as far as I know) pedigree library on the net, for free I might add. Some of you might already know this but we have put a ton of time into the pedigrees. Present and past pedigree admin have worked tirelessly on the pedigrees and have made a huge difference in the quality of the pedigrees.

You guys want the likes and dislikes back? I can probably get it done. But what I ask is that we don't hear how other members just dislike everything you post because of their PERSONAL dislike of you, live and let live, if they are dislike stalking you, let it be, it only proves their slip is showing.


Hundmutter

by Hundmutter on 09 October 2018 - 07:10

GSD Admin  Thumbs Up


mrdarcy (admin)

by mrdarcy on 09 October 2018 - 09:10

GSD, every wordThumbs Up I think we changed like/dislike to agree /disagree because a few  members were taking it personally


Jessejones

by Jessejones on 09 October 2018 - 20:10

Please...no like/dislike or agree/disagree buttons.
Lets not turn this into facebook, pretty please.

I like it fine the way it is. I don‘t really need to know if others like what I say. If they don‘t, they will say so in form of a post. We are all adults here...I think.

I came here because of the quality of knowledge of the posters. The info they shared...and, sorry newbies, but a place that wasn’t bombarded with beginner questions like some other forums are. I love the search feature of old posts here.

I wasn‘t here in the mid 2000‘s when it was more crowded and wilder, I guess. But, forums have lost participants across board because of facebook, YouTube and the effectiveness of Google.

I don’t post on any other forums...nor do I partake in facebook - except my business facebook, which is a necessary evil, IMO. Nope, personally I don’t care for FB. (Respecting that others do though.)

More pics and videos of participants showing their training or training problems...or just showing off their BEST nice pics of their dogs would be welcomed by me.


kitkat3478

by kitkat3478 on 09 October 2018 - 22:10

Well GSD Admin, i think i like you better in this role than SP. I rhink there were times i too would have choked you as SP, lol. Very intersting though, i know i was told on more than one occassion that it was me and people like me that made some leave, lol

I also recall some getting the boot, for good reason. I know i don t miss the kangaroo wrestler. I don t coe here like i used to ( i know, many say thank God), i just got busy in my days. I certainly still have plenty to learn, thats why i still drop in. You can never know too much. An image


1Ruger1

by 1Ruger1 on 10 October 2018 - 01:10

“,,,,,it only proves their slip is showing.”

GSD admin 👍🏼 Well said ! My motto indeed! Btw I liked SP!! He was a feisty little rascal !! Lmao 🤣 

KitKat~ That is a good looking dog!!


mrdarcy (admin)

by mrdarcy on 10 October 2018 - 06:10

Ruger, get your hands off the dog, when Kitkat's fed up looking at his ugly mug he's mine!!!!! lol,lol.

GSD Admin (admin)

by GSD Admin on 10 October 2018 - 06:10

Ruger, I have been called a lot of things in life but little is not usually one of them, lol. Not that I am overweight.

 

Jesse, sorry I have already submitted a request to Oli. Doesn't mean it will happen.

 

Kitkat, Nice looking boy. Can you share his pedigree? People left for all kinds of reasons, it happened, it is over and we move on. And BTW, lots of people wanted to choke me, some probably still do, lol.


Hundmutter

by Hundmutter on 10 October 2018 - 07:10

Yes Kitkat that is one good-looking dog - won't put in a bid for him, though, as a long queue is obviously forming !

You and I have had our arguments over the past several years, but I would never have thought that you were somebody whose contributions justified anyone thinking they would want to leave.

Stop posting on a site just because another poster has different opinions ? Come on. If you (or anyone) have had a to-and-fro going on with some particular member and it has degenerated into name-calling, then, yes I understand why someone would feel tee'd off enough to get the hell out ... but not on the basis of simply not agreeing.

I can't help thinking half the people who take umbrage and stomp off the field (most of whom return anyway, despite claiming they aren't going to !) are doing so as part of a ruck they themselves have started by being nasty to someone and then its backfired. i.e. They can dish it out, but they can't take it.





 


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