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mellercopter OP t1_iykuw7v wrote

Reply to comment by ThisistheInfiniteIs in Doggie door recs by mellercopter

Sure but since the dog related content is a question I am specifically asking of Vermonters for a dog door that will also be residing in VT it seemed like maybe the VT subreddit was probably appropriate. I guess I could ask in the dog reddit open to the whole world and then tell people to only reply if they have a doggie door in VT, but that seems kind of silly.

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OutOfTheLimits t1_iymty3w wrote

I don't even have a dog but I like learning about how things work, and being in VT this is relevant because cold weather obviously affects things quite a bit. Sure it's a doggy door but the concepts can be considered more universal than that, so thanks. And good luck with your install

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ThisistheInfiniteIs t1_iykvp9a wrote

There is no reason you can't just ask the appropriate community r/dogs for a cold weather dog door my friend. You will get much more feedback when you post your question in the appropriate subreddit.

This post has nothing to do with Vermont IMO

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ThisistheInfiniteIs t1_iykw0vs wrote

Please follow Reddiquette:

"Post to the most appropriate community possible."

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mellercopter OP t1_iykwrvz wrote

I am literally asking people who live in VT who have a doggie door what they as Vermonters would recommend in their home in VT. Not trying to be difficult, but this kind of is appropriate. I don't know if you've spent any time in r/dogs, but they are surprisingly less friendly than the folks in this sub.

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ThisistheInfiniteIs t1_iykxkyh wrote

Well I am sorry to hear that you don't seem to get along with the folks at r/dogs, but that is the appropriate place to have dog related discussions.

This is a subreddit for talking about Vermont, not a place for talking about dog doors. This is NOT the "most appropriate subreddit" for this conversation.

There is no such thing as a "Vermont dog door", it's just a cold weather dog door, which I am sure the folks at r/dogs know all about and would love to talk about there, because again, that is the appropriate subreddit for that conversation.

Just because you happen to live in Vermont while you are asking about an unrelated topic, does not make it a topic about Vermont.

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mellercopter OP t1_iykyevc wrote

There is no such thing as VT only snow tires or VT only winter boots, or VT only woodstoves, or VT only heat pumps, but all of those things get posted here because people are specifically asking about their applications and functionality in relation to VT which is exactly what I am doing here. I'm not asking about cold weather dog doors. I am asking people who live where I live to tell me their first hand experiences with them.

I searched for r/dogs, the first three posts were about how everyone is unhelpful, judgmental, and mean in the sub. I don't really understand the need to reply, if you don't have a doggie door in VT then this post isn't for you. If you do, I'd love to hear about any experiences you have had a long with the handful of other people who have experience with having a dog door in VT.

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ThisistheInfiniteIs t1_iykzuop wrote

Maybe people seem unhelpful, judgemental and mean because you don't follow Reddiquette?

There is no snow tire subreddit, or winter boot subreddit, so people talk about it as a general topic here because there is no more appropriate subreddit to do so, unlike a discussion about dogs, there is a subreddit for discussions about dogs, it is r/dogs**.** There is also a r/heatpump subreddit and a subreddit for wood stoves called r/woodstovin and those are the "most appropriate communities for those discussions". That's how Reddiquette works.

Please follow Reddiquette. The appropriate community for discussions about dogs is r/dogs.

This is a community for discussing Vermont, not dogs and dog related things.

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mellercopter OP t1_iyl0typ wrote

Dude, I literally scrolled for 30 seconds in your comments and you have commented on dog related posts in both Boston and new Hampshire subreddits and in none of those responses were you lecturing people about all dog posts needing to be in r/dogs. If this is the hill you're willing to die on whatever.

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ThisistheInfiniteIs t1_iyl1bol wrote

Yeah, because those were discussions about Boston and New Hampshire.

You are not discussing Vermont here, you are discussing dogs and dog doors, which has literally nothing to do with Vermont.

Please follow Reddiquette. The appropriate community for discussions about dogs is r/dogs.

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mellercopter OP t1_iyl25eo wrote

I am discussing the weather within the state of Vermont and how that weather may impact the temperature of my home in VT if I modify my home in VT with an item used by dogs who also love in VT and would like input solely from people in the state of Vermont on their experiences in VT with VT weather and how that weather has impacted the temperature of their homes in VT when they modified that home with an item used by their dogs who also live in VT. If I plan to coat the door with maple syrup or build a creamee dispenser in the top would that make it VT enough for me to seek the input of Vermonters or should I just create a subreddit for Vermonters with doggie doors instead?

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[deleted] t1_iyl2t6e wrote

No, you are not, you are discussing cold weather dog doors, which is a discussion that you should really take to the appropriate subreddit, which again is r/dogs.

Please follow Reddiquette:

"Post to the most appropriate community possible."

Creating a subreddit for dog doors is a good solution, yes.

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