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Originally Posted by SmackoftheGods
My point was simply this. You are someone who doesn't want to share very much personal information about yourself. And that's fine. I don't think that makes you a bad hobbyist or someone who shouldn't be taken seriously. But I don't think that just because I choose to divulge information about myself and invite some of the locals over to my place to chat about frogging makes me any less serious.
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I never said it made you less serious. Just that there seems to be a tendency to be private among the more serious hobbyists. That doesn't mean that being private in any way is a measure of how serious one is.
But we can't deny that there is a pretty large risk in being wide open about what you have and what you are doing in a public forum, especially if you have 10's of thousands of dollars of livestock that could potentially be a target.
Is it likely to happen? probably not. The guy who lost the fish, and the other story about the snake breeder are clearly extreme incidents that we all can be shocked by. We hope it will never happen to us, but bottom line is one can never be sure.
