Originally Posted by YorkieShadow (Post 2557204)

Well I find the story behind poor emma very sad and I hope an dpray that poor girl finds the loving Family she so deserves.

But as for this thread.I dont know about batering and im in no way sticking up for this person. but I have to say i did do some thing like this once and I dont see it as me being a bad person for trying. what I did was see a Yorkie on YT that was needing rehomed and I posted an ad on YT to try and sell a camcorder to try and get some of the money up to get that Yorkie and then place her with my mother. why because I didnt have the extra money to get her and and I knew she would have a wonderful life with my mother and thats just what she needed was a good home. so was I also wrong in doing that?

Originally Posted by YorkieShadow (Post 2557204)

Well I find the story behind poor emma very sad and I hope an dpray that poor girl finds the loving Family she so deserves.

But as for this thread.I dont know about batering and im in no way sticking up for this person. but I have to say i did do some thing like this once and I dont see it as me being a bad person for trying. what I did was see a Yorkie on YT that was needing rehomed and I posted an ad on YT to try and sell a camcorder to try and get some of the money up to get that Yorkie and then place her with my mother. why because I didnt have the extra money to get her and and I knew she would have a wonderful life with my mother and thats just what she needed was a good home. so was I also wrong in doing that?

Originally Posted by admin (Post 2556386)

Please note that threads can be closed by YorkieTalk moderators and admins for any reason. We generally don't want to close threads, but there are times that this is absolutely necessary, as threads get off topic, too heated, or problematic. While we are a public forum, this community is privately owned and thus we can have our own rules and regulations on what can and can not be posted here in our community. We do have rules and regulations for a reason. For example, name calling and racial slurs are not allowed here in our community.

Only the government is prohibited from restricting speech. Because YT is privately owned, speech can be restricted in any way that YT sees fit. We try not to restrict speech, but there are times that it is unavoidable. Threads may be closed or deleted by moderators or admins for any reason. Usually they are closed or deleted because it goes against YT rules or some other kind of problem. Threads are never closed or deleted for no reason. YT tries to be as neutral as possible and we do not close threads because we have a particular opinion on a subject. If we see 5 new (or active) threads on the same subject, we may close 4 of the threads as we try to avoid redundancy.

As this is a community site, we want to keep the atmosphere friendly, and often times, heated threads turn into huge arguments and name-calling, which leads to suspensions and or banned users, which we try to avoid. We have tried in the past to keep hotly-debated threads open, but it never works. It always turns out ugly. So threads may be closed before that happens.

It makes YT members and YT itself look bad when someone that is a new (a new member or potential new member) is on YorkieTalk for the first time sees a bunch of name-calling and childish behavior. This is what we are trying to avoid as we want to make this as friendly and welcoming a community as possible, though undoubtedly problems will still happen at times.

Thank you for your feedback.