Hi Everyone! As we enter a new year and approach RottweilersOnline.com's fourth anniversary... I'd like to take the time to go over our site's purpose and responsibility as a respectable community.<?:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com
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RottweilersOnline.com is devoted to the love, appreciation, and care of rottweilers and their owners through education and community. We strive to dispel myths and provide support for healthy human-rottweiler relationships.
I think that the above statement best reflects what is in the heart ofour community. Please take a moment to remember the words "and their owners" within that statement. There is a very good reason why I included that.... I didn't want this site to become like all of the other rottweiler sites. Members of other sites bash one another and ridicule new members and less experienced rottweiler owners, which is why I created RottweilersOnline.com.
Something to think about: If a newbie posts something that a more experienced rottweiler owner knows to be wrong, then it is the duty of the experienced owner to try and help the newbie to understand why he/she is wrong and to offer help and guidance. Criticizing, attacking, or talking down tothe newbie will only drive him/her away, then nothing is learned and a rottweiler potentially suffers.
<B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Disagreements:[/B] Not everyone is always going to agree on everything, and open discussions, debates, and disagreements are OKAY. It is how we all learn and grow. But personally attacking others or their beliefsis NOT OKAY. There is a way to disagree without being hurtful. We can respect one another regardless of our differences. If every member on this site did everything exactly the same way, and believed what they believe in the same exact wayÂ… there would be no discussions. We also need to keep in mind that if a member doesnÂ’t agree with another member here, that doesnÂ’t necessarily mean that the disagreement is a personal attack.
<B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Taking sides: [/B]There has some friction on the site lately with two groups of members here on opposite sides. This has happened in the past, and we moved past it, and we can again. At the end of the day we have to remember we all here on this site for the same reasons. We are a community brought together by our love of rottweilers.
Feel free to reply with your thoughts.
RottweilersOnline.com is devoted to the love, appreciation, and care of rottweilers and their owners through education and community. We strive to dispel myths and provide support for healthy human-rottweiler relationships.
I think that the above statement best reflects what is in the heart ofour community. Please take a moment to remember the words "and their owners" within that statement. There is a very good reason why I included that.... I didn't want this site to become like all of the other rottweiler sites. Members of other sites bash one another and ridicule new members and less experienced rottweiler owners, which is why I created RottweilersOnline.com.
Something to think about: If a newbie posts something that a more experienced rottweiler owner knows to be wrong, then it is the duty of the experienced owner to try and help the newbie to understand why he/she is wrong and to offer help and guidance. Criticizing, attacking, or talking down tothe newbie will only drive him/her away, then nothing is learned and a rottweiler potentially suffers.
<B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Disagreements:[/B] Not everyone is always going to agree on everything, and open discussions, debates, and disagreements are OKAY. It is how we all learn and grow. But personally attacking others or their beliefsis NOT OKAY. There is a way to disagree without being hurtful. We can respect one another regardless of our differences. If every member on this site did everything exactly the same way, and believed what they believe in the same exact wayÂ… there would be no discussions. We also need to keep in mind that if a member doesnÂ’t agree with another member here, that doesnÂ’t necessarily mean that the disagreement is a personal attack.
<B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Taking sides: [/B]There has some friction on the site lately with two groups of members here on opposite sides. This has happened in the past, and we moved past it, and we can again. At the end of the day we have to remember we all here on this site for the same reasons. We are a community brought together by our love of rottweilers.
Feel free to reply with your thoughts.