How I feel about some of these forums

PeachyCarol

Chrysalid2014 wrote: »

draznyth wrote: »

Chrysalid2014 wrote: »

QueenBishOTUniverse wrote: »

I also love how we're all for pointing to SCIENCE to back our wild claims, right up until you run in to someone who SCIENCES better then you do. Then science becomes biased twattle and personal experience is all that matters.

Yes, or berating someone's advice because of their lack of qualifications, and then on a separate thread slamming a different person who shares the fact that they have very advanced qualifications by saying qualifications don't mean anything.

u mad?

Both of those things have happened within the past week.

physioprof? Please tell me the last time you ran across a real professor who couldn't field questions.

FitForL1fe

CurvyToFit wrote: »

Chrysalid2014 wrote: »

Main problems with this forum:
1. People constantly demanding peer reviewed studies when someone posts a personal experience. We all know so-called scientific research can be biased, paid-for, factually incorrect or disproven by a better science next year. If all you want to do is read studies then why come to a board like this at all?
2. Endless squabbling about definitions: addiction and clean eating being two obvious contenders.
3. Close-minded, point-scoring debate as opposed to real productive dialogue. I'd like to listen to someone else's viewpoint and share mine and hopefully both of us would emerge with a greater understanding.
4. And yeah, unnecessary rudeness. If people are saying they're tired of answering the same questions over and over then... don't answer them! How often do you see a thread where the OP's question is answered correctly with the first reply, and it's then followed by twenty other replies in tones of increasing snarkiness, telling him/her the exact same information.

Hi, I was the one who mentioned that people ask the same questions over and over again. I do not answer them. I was just stating that OP shouldn't expect the nicest of responses when the questions have been answered over and over again, usually the answer is on the same page, with the same question in the subject line, the same condescending people answering them. I like new people and expect questions. If you don't want the rude answers be a little more observant when you ask questions because the answer, 99% of the time, is right under your nose - too lazy to look for it. I do agree with everything else you said

most "new people" posts with questions get decent answers, even if the question has been asked a million times before. it's hard to find courtesy like that on most forums.

on the other hand, "new people" posts that are full of preaching and/or terrible advice (randomly pulled from a sensational article or some other dubious source) are met with derision and criticism. this keeps the crap out.

lemonsnowdrop

biggsterjackster wrote: »

dalila747 wrote: »

Chrysalid2014 wrote: »

Main problems with this forum:
1. People constantly demanding peer reviewed studies when someone posts a personal experience. We all know so-called scientific research can be biased, paid-for, factually incorrect or disproven by a better science next year. If all you want to do is read studies then why come to a board like this at all?
2. Endless squabbling about definitions: addiction and clean eating being two obvious contenders.
3. Close-minded, point-scoring debate as opposed to real productive dialogue. I'd like to listen to someone else's viewpoint and share mine and hopefully both of us would emerge with a greater understanding.
4. And yeah, unnecessary rudeness. If people are saying they're tired of answering the same questions over and over then... don't answer them! How often do you see a thread where the OP's question is answered correctly with the first reply, and it's then followed by twenty other replies in tones of increasing snarkiness, telling him/her the exact same information.

Totally. I posted a link to a study about and mentioned that I thought it was interesting and food for thought. People seemed to answer in very sarcastic and snarky ways. I wasn't telling people, hey. change the way you eat right now OHMYGOD, it was more oh, this is interesting. So yeah. I do see what you are saying.

Haha, totally agree, especially Nr. 1. I posted once, that IMO to much processed added sugar is bad for bones and teeth and a few people attacked me like asking me, where I read this and they want to see studies and proof, bla bla bla. It is what I believe after reading a few books about it. I do not have to proof anything. Everyone can do their own research and believe what they want. Luckily the thread got shot down cause people got so rude.

When you make claims, it's your responsibility to provide evidence backing those claims, otherwise we will tear them down with scientific proof stating otherwise.

kgeyser

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