Well, I logged back in to see if there was any reaction to my post, and THAT certainly wasn't the reaction that I had anticipated, although I can see how it could have come about. Yes, there are coincidences here. I was struck by them, myself, or I wouldn't have pointed it out. And those coincidences made me feel even more strongly that I wanted to respond to Meggie, because it kept me thinking about how I would like to see people respond to my own daughter.
It isn't my first time on the forums, even if it's my first post. I first visited this website (and forum, possibly, though I don't recall for sure) back in January 2001, when I was preparing to buy my Meg her first guinea pig (and then her second). I built a C&C cage back before the coroplast was even being recommended - it was cubes and vinyl flooring back then, and then I upgraded when I came back to this site it had added the coroplast recommendation. It's possible that I posted then - I have a feeling that I did - but if so, I no longer have the same email address and I've lost the user ID I would have used, so I re-registered solely so that I could respond to to Meggie.
I've been visiting this website for a number of days now, because another daughter of mine has been hankering for a mouse, and I sent her to this website trying to get her interested in the piggies and help her improve her interactions with them. (I don't mind if she gets a mouse, but I don't want to add more animals unless we're truly animal lovers and we have enough energy to give to more animals. Kids tend to say, "Well, I'm tired of this, so let's try a different animal," and that's not acceptable to me.) It has worked, too - my daughter is much more involved now with the piggies. We bought a bale of hay which we've never done before, and she built them a single-grid second level shelf (halfway up) which they love to get underneath, and she's made them a nice little hay holder.
There's no way I can prove that I'm not a troll, but I must say that I found that a very jarring way to be welcomed into this forum. I know that lots of the members here are very young, and when I was young I also would have had more trouble responding graciously to people, but I was still disappointed, if only because I support what y'all are about here on this forum, and I hate to think that people might be chased away for unfortunate reasons like that.