When I reply to a thread...

What is your PRIMARY information source when responding to questions?

  • Personal information

    Votes: 37 56.1%

  • Research

    Votes: 24 36.4%

  • Trusted Source Third Party (ie, I hear from...)

    Votes: 1 1.5%

  • Read it once somewhere and think it applies

    Votes: 4 6.1%
  • Total voters
    66
OrionGirl

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Just curious how many people are responding with personal experience, research, reliable source, and rumor.

For me, it depends on the question. If someone is asking about fish behavior, I answer only if I have experience with that fish or a closely related species that has similar behavior. For questions on products, I will indicate if I have abrand preference, or specific experience with the product in question. For tank maintenance, cycling, and such, I use my own experience in combination with the research and reliable sources I've found. If I have no idea, I do not respond unless I know of a good source of information that may help out (ie, planetcatfish/fishbase for ID'ing fish).

So, what are your habits?
 
I cant vote cause i use a combination!

usually its either personal experience or research but it is also sometimes something i heard from a trusted source.

Im alittle ashamed to say but I do sometimes even do the vague rumor thing...but I always try to say that Im just saying this as a possibility that you might want to examine before you do this. If you know what I mean!


and you forgot to include the - I respond with complete gibberish to confuse and annoy!

and the - to provide little facts to show off how much of a smart *** I am! *cough*chilldawg*cough*cough*

jk dont hit me omg!
 
I usually spin the wheel of morality. Sometimes it's cause I've learned something about the topic/question. Sometimes I just want to know a fish suffered because of my bad advice :p.
 
Originally posted by demon_surfer
I cant vote cause i use a combination!.....
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Exactly, I can't either..

I do know I am not a Biologist, nor would I attempt to impersonate one! Which will soon bring about an R/O - TDS question I'm dying to ask the experts! :)

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Awhile back I do remember asking the SeaChem company about clarifying a question or 2 about one of their great products, and the CEO of the company showed up here and verified a point I was trying to make.
Research is good... :)
 
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Well, I am a biologist, but much of what I do for a living is irrelevant to fishkeeping. Most of the time, I try to post from personal experience. I have tried a lot of stuff, and I can even remember some of it.

If it's something I have read about extensively, or it happens to be something that I am involved with professonally (e.g., arthropod physiology/neurobiology/genetics) then I figure my opinion is also worth something.

I will occasionally spout off about something without checking the source, and usually regret it. (is that the confuse and annoy box?)

I try to let people know where a particular opinion comes from, so that they can decide for themselves what it's worth.
 
As indicated, I understand that most people use a combinatin, depending on the topic, but I am interested in your primary source. IE--most frequent source, not exclusive.
 
I'm going with research and then throwing in an irrelevant fact or two...Did you know that Barbus pentazona juveniles are used to make a fish sauce?

Seriously, I read a lot, and I try to help enlighten with what I have read. Sometimes that flies directly in the face of the experience of others, but I know mostly generalities and very little about individual cases (except with regard to Bettas).
 
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