ATTENTION: Reminder to Review Group and Site Guidelines
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We are still a very active group of over 50 Ladies! We are in our own group now! I don't like the bashing we just got though. If you didn't want to read about our issues, you shouldn't have read the thread, imo! Good day!5
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Bumping this one, as many still need to read it!0
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auntstephie321 wrote: »Who decides what's too far off though. If a person creates a thread and doesn't have issue with it going off topic, then should it matter? I believe that specific thread became its own group.
Right. It did.
No one is going to be happy about everything. I get that. And I just employ my stand by: if it isn't my cuppa tea, then I don't click it again. A thread that doesn't interest you, well, let it go and stop going there.
One man's junk is another man's treasure. And vice versa.
Which brings me to comment on this:KETOGENICGURL wrote: »What happened to the "Over 50 ladies' special needs? It grew to thousands of posts. Never understood the actual "special part"
That became a female only chit chat group , and itwas a daily slog through so much private detail of who got married, and who put in a new floor, etc, and back and forth responses that it left LCHF behind.. I tried reading it for a bit but miss a week and you never could catch up.
Facebook seems a better place to create a chat web anyway. I fully support some discussion of life, which is the point of us becoming healthier to enjoy it, but that group was a prime example of drifting too far off.
Not everyone does Facebook. I don't and I'm not going to start because someone doesn't like "life stuff."
Life is a part of handling adhering to a WOE.
If a thread goes into a direction you don't like, then unbookmark it.
Besides there IS a group now, and you can go there, make your own thread and bring up a specific topic.
Other comments:
I'm only interested in science posts to a degree and only in funny ones to a degree. When I'm no longer interested, I stop following. I also don't read food pic posts. It's a trigger for me to look at pictures of food. But just because it's not good for me, I'm not going to insist people stop doing it. Because many others find value in it.
This is a group of individuals who follow a range of plans. And who have many varying interests. What ties us together is an interest in low-carb lifestyles. But we are all different. Sooooo... If you aren't interested, don't get involved in it.
Post what you want to see then. This group is what we make of it.
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KETOGENICGURL wrote: »What happened to the "Over 50 ladies' special needs? It grew to thousands of posts. Never understood the actual "special part"
That became a female only chit chat group , and itwas a daily slog through so much private detail of who got married, and who put in a new floor, etc, and back and forth responses that it left LCHF behind.. I tried reading it for a bit but miss a week and you never could catch up.
Facebook seems a better place to create a chat web anyway. I fully support some discussion of life, which is the point of us becoming healthier to enjoy it, but that group was a prime example of drifting too far off.
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Not cool.
There's a simple way to handle "policing" of "off-topic" threads -- did you start the thread?
If you did, feel free to steer it back on topic, and even feel free to ask a mod for help in doing so if necessary. We can also close a thread if you feel it's going too far and no longer productive, but will only do that for the creators of a thread.
If you did not create the thread, then unbookmark it and move on, or if you're interested in the topic, itself, skip the comments that are not pertinent and respond to the stuff that is (which can generally serve the purpose of steering it back to the topic, as well). No one's forcing you to read every post of every thread.
There are 28 thousand people in this group, and more join every single day. There are bound to be threads any given person doesn't like or isn't interested in, but there are also just as likely threads that they do like and are interested in, and if there aren't, then everyone is free to create them.
You are free to voice your opinion on the general trend of topics in this thread, but do not specifically call out people/threads like that. And to essentially say to those people, "take your stuff to Facebook, we don't want chit-chat here," especially in such a public place is straight-up out of line, is a personal insult to the people to whom you refer, and borders on, if not crosses into, violation of our rule #1 -- No posts talking about other members and how they irritate you. If you have a problem with a specific thread or person, take it to a mod in private messaging.
That one thread served a valuable niche and showed that there was large enough demand to create a sister group, so that's what we did, and those ladies are quite grateful for it, and that group is flourishing. It followed the discussion paths that it did, because there was a need for that particular niche and group of people, and they were polite enough to keep it to one thread, instead of starting a bunch of new threads.
I took over this group from the inactive creator so that it could be -- and stay -- a safe haven for low carb folks, and the moderators that have been elected have agreed and strive to uphold that ideal. That ideal has evolved to include some threads that are not specifically low-carb related (particularly in the wake of the events that have led us to being a closed group and having to enact and enforce the rules that we have), and that is perfectly fine. The vast majority of the threads are still low carb and/or health and fitness related. Should we see that balancing shifting and staying that way, then we will address it accordingly.
To be clear -- the direction of any given thread and whether it has gone "too far" off topic is largely up to the creator of that thread and, to a lesser extent, up to the people involved in the conversation (barring rule violations). What we're concerned with in this discussion is the number of threads that are "off-topic" versus that number of threads that are not, and with keeping the standards of discussion in general to higher quality content and not allowing it to degrade into things like "rate the person above you" or other inane, vapid forum games.
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Thank you @Dragonwolf.
Without you and the other Moderators this forum would fail.
I think most of us wouldn't be able to follow the WOE without the daily support we can always find here.5 -
Re-bump for newbies.
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