Button pushing twits!

jg's forum is one of the friendliest place you can go for a chat they are always supportive when you need and more than willing to tell you when your wrong, but best of all you can have your say without someone shooting you down in flames. ive only been on hho for a short time but am disappointed by the way some posters feel they have to bully anyone who disagrees with them.
 
I think this is a shame and often about people's personal grudes against someone rather than the actual principle as the better way of advertising a stallion is actually owners of these offspring posting about the offspring and commercial studs probably benefit from people posting about great horses bred by them.

Lots of people use forums as a source of find information on services or products. There are so many recommendations for things on here from feeds to yards types of rugs etc to different breeds of horses or ponies which must have an impact on people's decisions to buy things. If say for example new forests are a fab breed and then lots of other join in saying they agree showing photo of said ponies is that not seen as promoting a breed from which commercial breeders would benefit. If any post seen as indorsing or promoting anything is not allowed the forum would probably not get used very much at all!

If JG did not own the stallion or would not financially benefit from stud fees or sales of any youngsters by this horse then surely she could not be advertising it any more than anyone else posting nice photos of their ponies/horses probably less so. My understanding is that she did not even post the name of the horse so only those very familiar with it would be able to indentify it and if they already know the horse the post probably would not be attracting any new customers unless someone else identified it in a post in reply to the thread.
 
There is a comment on Facebook (not saying where as it isn't on my page), whereby someone says the original post about the stallion was removed "at the stallion's guardian's request" - no idea who that means, whether it is the owner or whoever has him in the UK - but it would seem it may not have been a "button pusher" after all.
 
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