[chesca_27]

I am a member of a guinea pig forum (not mentioning name as I don't want to bash them) and they are quite helpful at the beginning, when you first join. Now I just find it a very cliquey, critical forum. You have to be at that stage where you post tons and make it into the clique otherwise they kind of just ignore your threads whereas someone else in the forum clique will receive 10 times more responses for exactly the same topic. I'm not saying they don't give good advice, it's just the members aren't quite as responsive to you as they are to their clique friends. Those who donate to the website have some special status and you can only have a signature once you reach a really high post count.

I've kinda given up on that forum as I just don't find it a pleasant place to post. I feel this never happens with Hamster Central and everyone is always much more welcoming and accepting, regardless of the forum ranks, hence why I spend all my time on here.