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I believe the koidoc also later came back on the forum on the same thread and announced he was renewing his subscription to Koi-Bito and that he was not right to have cancelled like that. He apologized in his own way. You know, lots of folks have different ways of helping this hobby, not everyone has the same ideas or set of priorities and values, and they are not supposed to. But, to be ethical and reliable people we have to stick to our values and priorities.
Brian did that and has done that ever since I have seen this site around. Koidoc has very strong values as well, if you know him. He is dedicated to reliable and righteous info. He also has readily admitted many times in the past being wrong and corrected himself publicly, an admirable trait in my eyes. I have seen him hurt his own reputation just to prevent folks from doing something that would just make the koi temporarily uncomfortable. That is ethics. For Brian to accomplish his mission with the forum and magazine, he has to stick to his values and priorities. I know the level of info in his magazine and forum is the only reason US breeders are now starting to move forward in quality. They were stuck for 20 years before Brian did this. They did not know who was really who or who to listen to about what.
The information doors he has opened others can pass through as well, but before he opened that door the info out there was confusing, ambiguous, and not truly designed to help the hobby or breeders here. He advanced the hobby here more in the pat few years than it did for 20 years prior. Before, the only way to learn anything was to buy old books, trial and error, and to have enough money to travel to All Japan shows and be able to afford to, and to luck up and buddy up with someone who knew something worthwhile and hang out with them. In other words, you had to be rich AND lucky.
For koidoc to accomplish his mission, he has to stick to his values and priorities. Honestly, prior to this site his forum ws the only one I trusted, but there were several sites adn good articels outther if you DUG. Noone just handed it to you. Now it is all on here on a silver platter and we fight more???? I don't get it. Now their ethics are the same, but their values and priorities differ on some points, according to their mission. It is nice to see them both understanding and supporting each other in spite of clear differences of priorities. I think both of them are totally trustworthy. People capable of doing what they are doing that we can all trust to come out with information and articles and magazines we can fully trust.
So to both of you, thanks for your contributions, and carry on! Please do us the favor of helping and supporting each other. Otherwise the info will once more become confusing and ambiguous for the new and learning koi artists.
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