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Post by Ashley@FK on Jan 5, 2010 4:22:12 GMT -5
That's a cute idea I think more people should do that.. I mean ones that they've had for awhile you know.. so the previous owner will be like "ohhh ya<3 aw thats cute they found such a good home" ya know? I might totally steal your idea
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Post by loxfiredance on Jan 5, 2010 4:44:43 GMT -5
Aww Zekumi. You're always one of the most courteous people.
Tbh, I don't think people should HAVE to show off new petz. Just....say thanks. Or leave a little note saying they got it. <3 I dislike it when I see 'You MUST show it off' on adoption rules. Once the pet is mine, I should be able to play with it how I choose. About half of my pets have never had a petztacular/pix of my litter thread, but I'm working on a crew site to solve that issue XD
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Post by Amber@Flummery on Jan 5, 2010 5:09:13 GMT -5
Okay.. might be slightly off topic.. but sorta fits.. PA.. comments.. ;__; atleast post 'thank you' I mean.. c'mon.. I put effort into my PA petz.. more than other adoptions because I try to appeal to everyone.. and a little 'thank you' comment srsly only takes a mintue as well. >___<;;
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Post by Yvonne on Jan 5, 2010 5:09:36 GMT -5
I agree with you Lox, it seems that over the years we've gone from long applications, thank you's and stuff to little to no applications and with that the responces of thank you have almost fanished. I really don't know, I've been online within Petz for what seems an eternity and so many things changed.
Yes it makes me angry when I sent a pet adopted from YCAP and I never get a responce, because to me it seems the littlest thing to do is to press "reply" and then type in a simple "got it!" as the bare minimum.
And it's not just applications trough e-mail, or via forums. But also on PA most people don't seem to have the curtesy anymore to just write a few words on the pet they won/got.
I love Petz, but I'm not in love with most of our "community".
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Post by loxfiredance on Jan 5, 2010 5:15:28 GMT -5
Okay.. might be slightly off topic.. but sorta fits.. PA.. comments.. ;__; atleast post 'thank you' I mean.. c'mon.. I put effort into my PA petz.. more than other adoptions because I try to appeal to everyone.. and a little 'thank you' comment srsly only takes a mintue as well. >___<;; YES OMG. this drives me nuts. what's wrong with leaving a comment? seriously. I have something like...200+ sales, and about 100 comments. ugh.
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Post by Zekumi on Jan 5, 2010 5:15:31 GMT -5
You know what I really miss?
Those big, insane Manda horse adoptions we used to have. :3 And people would write just paragraph after paragraph and the applications would be enormous (with art and drawings and stories).
It was silly, but I miss it.
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Post by Yvonne on Jan 5, 2010 5:20:29 GMT -5
You know what I really miss? Those big, insane Manda horse adoptions we used to have. :3 And people would write just paragraph after paragraph and the applications would be enormous (with art and drawings and stories). It was silly, but I miss it. I miss the times you just wrote paragraphs to adopt a pet from a site. It was silly, and hard but so rewarding! You'd think twice about adopting any pet back then. Man this makes me feel old.
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Post by Zekumi on Jan 5, 2010 5:32:44 GMT -5
^ I think in the next few days I'm going to try to hex something kind of epic that I could put up for adoption and hopefully bring back the old style of applying.
I'll sure give it a shot, anyway.
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Post by cheaco on Jan 5, 2010 6:02:25 GMT -5
I make sure I say thank you to everyone who does something for me. If I ever forget, I didn't mean it. T^T I make sure I include a thank you when I fill out a form to adopt a pet. I even read their rules. And to be even more courteous, I use what ever form the person has written out for us to use. When I used to enter shows, I made sure I thanked the person if my petz ever placed. If I am given a gift, they get a thanks. :D When I ask a question and someone helps me, they most definitely get a thank you! I may not show off petz ASAP, but when I do, they are usually in bulk, and I make sure I list who they were from. That way that person knows that I really am thankful. The only thing that I don't do is reply back to threads or emails when I receive a pet, unless they ask me to. On occasion I do. But, I think I don't do it because it doesn't really bother me when I'm adopting petz out. But I think I'm going to try to make it a habit now. ;) I dislike people who are rude, and I would dislike myself if I acted that way. This goes for real life too. I'm way too nice heh. Like, I get walked all over because of it. )<
When I adopt out a pet, I am satisfied with a thank you included with the form. If you don't reply back saying you got the pet, then that doesn't bother me that much. I don't expect it. Unless I ask. But, when someone does it on their free will, it makes me feel a lot happier! I also love it when I receive updates. Those are the best hehe. But again, I don't expect them. I also get a little upset when someone doesn't use the form I made when adopting a pet out heh. Also, if I have one of those "if you read the rules" rules, and the person doesn't include it. Obviously they didn't read my rules, and that hurts my feelings! Yet they still expect me to send them a free pet. ;P There are times when I go out of my way to help someone and don't get a thank you in return. It's not often, but it happens. And those aren't fun at all. When that happens, I feel a little less like being nice to them in the future lmao.
PA comments! I think that more people should give those. D: I make sure I leave a comment for every single pet I win off of PA. And I win a lot. o.o;; I don't see why I shouldn't get any comments in return. x3 It's not that hard. In fact, I have a system where, if I didn't leave a comment for a certain pet, then that means I didn't download it yet. It helps me out a lot since I can be quite forgetful.
I think that the best way I can explain my situation is like this. You know when you hold the door open for someone and they walk through without saying thank you? It ticks you off, you might say something out loud about it or to them if you have that type of personality, but does it stop you from holding the door for someone else in the future? Maybe...But it doesn't for me lol. So, even when someone isn't courteous to me when I am going out of my way on the PC, I will still be the bigger person and continue to be helpful and display proper manners. I believe in karma! Those who are nice to others do prosper in the end. You could probably tell that everyone who is nice on this forum, have become friends with each other. Gifts are exchanged, jokes are made, and obviously we are all having fun or we wouldn't continue to come here. :3 And the people who are rude are the ones who slowly drift away and may feel left out, but that is their own fault because they didn't put in the effort to make a good impression. Heh.
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Post by Jack Sparrow on Jan 5, 2010 6:52:01 GMT -5
I usually try my hardest to say "Thank you!" In my post, and I might forget that. And I feel pretty bad now that I always forget to email the person and say "I got him/her!"
And I dont really hold adoptions a lot, so I wouldnt really pay attention to it, but now that I have it in consideration, next time I hold one I will pay attention. I dont do PA either, so I wouldn't really know with that.
Also, now that I just checked my email in the middle of this, I noticed I had some emails. So I will definatley try to change this, and now I feel pretty bad. Sorry!
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Post by K80 on Jan 5, 2010 7:55:05 GMT -5
omg me too, thanks for reminding me!
It does annoy me sometimes, but I feel like a hypocrite, because the -first- thing I do when I get the e-amil is usually squeal and play with the pet... oftentimes forgetting I have to say thanks until the show-off thread. XDD
fail. x.x;
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Post by Spider on Jan 5, 2010 8:00:42 GMT -5
PA comments--yes, definitely. But I try not to write a comment until I've gotten the pet in the game and made sure it works and is what I bid on, and occasionally, I do take too long.
Please and thanks on the board? Oh yes, especially in a show you place in.
Return emails? Eh... I actually prefer to not get a "Thanks, I got it!" email. I like having a nice, clean inbox, and I actually find it a bit annoying to get a four-word email (or less!) or something like that. I delete petz from my computer as soon as they're sent, so I'll assume you received it unless you say otherwise (I always say in my adoption threads that I've sent petz, so people know they're coming). And all email clients I've seen save copies of sent emails, including attachments, so if an email didn't go through for whatever reason, I've got the pet saved there.
My biggest pet peeve is misspellings when requesting a pet. If I've got a Becky up for adoption and get a request for bucky... well, how much could you really like that pet if you can't be bothered to spell the name as I gave it to you?
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Post by Alex@Marvel on Jan 5, 2010 12:56:50 GMT -5
Aww Zekumi. You're always one of the most courteous people. Tbh, I don't think people should HAVE to show off new petz. Just....say thanks. Or leave a little note saying they got it. <3 I dislike it when I see 'You MUST show it off' on adoption rules. Once the pet is mine, I should be able to play with it how I choose. About half of my pets have never had a petztacular/pix of my litter thread, but I'm working on a crew site to solve that issue XD I agree with that, I don't always get around to showing them off. If I took a lot of time to write an app or it was a special gift, then I will try to, but sometimes it just flat out escapes my grasp of time. Although with those, I at least show them off to my friends through private IM. ^^; Now, if it's a showable dog or cat, then it does get shown off in a way..they'll see it in the show ring.
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Post by Valerie on Jan 13, 2010 18:13:04 GMT -5
Yikes! I really hope I'm not one of the rude ones! I really, really try to remember to say thanks when applying for a pet, and definetly if I place in a show. I know I havn't made a ton of friends on here. I don't chat on IM or anything like that, but I would hate to be rude to any of you. As for PA: I totally do this too. I find it's helpful to click back to the auction page, & copy the rules into the petz profile after I've downloaded them, check to make sure they're what I thought I was getting, and then post a quick comment while I've got the auction page still open. I also don't like the "Thanks I got it" e-mail. I see the "RE: RKC Adoption" subject & say "Oh no! My e-mail didn't work!" & have a little heart attack for a sec. lol So, I will definetly try to be super polite in the future.
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Post by Ali Rae on Jan 14, 2010 23:16:17 GMT -5
I'm so bad about this, and yet it's one of my pet peeves too. Mostly the reason is I get the "petz bug" apply for lots of lovelies, and then my interest dies down. Eventually I come back - open up my emails and I'm so excited by all the guys I have. Either that or school gets in the way of everything. Blah. Then I feel behind on everything and don't show stuff off/return emails.
But I totally realize that "school" does NOT constitute an excuse for not being able to take 30 seconds to send an e-mail. And I think (because of this thread) in the future I'm going to try and be more aware of that.
Also like Artemis said, I don't want to BOTHER people. I remember one time someone sent me a pet I paid for in WC and it was corrupt. I politely emailed the person back and explained the situation, they sent me a curt (and in my interpretation - rude) response, but did attach another copy of the pet. Well the file was still corrupted, but I felt too ashamed and bothersome to email this person back. Idk, it was kind of a big deal to me at the time. I was somewhat younger and hadn't quite mastered the art of being social in the PC. (Lol @ ~3 years ago being younger). But I felt kind of hurt. I had paid for this hexed pet and it was corrupted. I sent a polite message to the hexer and they gave me a response that sounded like they were bothered by me. So since then I tend to not e-mail people back unless there is a huge problem. :\
Also I really dislike when people go "tysm" as their ONLY way to express appreciation. Like: dog soandso@blahblah.com tysm
like, would it kill you to write out thanks a lot! Idk, to me tysm seems really insincere.
Also - it really yanks my chain when you hex something for someone in a service or a request, spend like..hours getting it as good as possible, and then they don't even manage like..excitement or seem thankful. Just like - Awesome. My email is ____ or wtv. When I hex something special for someone I spend like..hours getting it perfect. I'm so afraid that they won't like it. So when they seem to be indifferent or apathetic towards it, it really shakes my confidence.
but anyway - summary - I agree. Lots of people can be rude, and I'm sure there are many that don't MEAN to be either, but I think people should try to be more aware of how their actions (or lack thereof) come across to other people.
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