"Woo" Button to Comment on Posts (?)
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TheWJordinWJordin wrote: »In our nearby top tech school many programmers look like they are from China. Could woo mean something extremely positive in that country? I had to ask. Not being racist. Not at all. Maybe India? Outsourcing is also a thing. Cheap programmers in other countries.
Woo was picked by users in a vote on the forum, nothing to do with the developers. For most of us who voted I assume that's because of the amount of broscience/scam/misinformation posts.
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Fascinating
Insightful=insightful
Inspiring=agree
Like=like
awesome=awesome
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TheWJordinWJordin wrote: »In our nearby top tech school many programmers look like they are from China. Could woo mean something extremely positive in that country? I had to ask. Not being racist. Not at all. Maybe India? Outsourcing is also a thing. Cheap programmers in other countries.
What the wha? :huh: :noway:7 -
A programmer or tech manager had to make the final decision. They may have not known it was negative. I wonder. UnderArmour is hurting financially. It is possible it is all outsourced. MFP would not allow a negative button. Woo-hoo is very popular where I am from.4
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TheWJordinWJordin wrote: »A programmer or tech manager had to make the final decision. They may have not known it was negative. I wonder. UnderArmour is hurting financially. It is possible it is all outsourced. MFP would not allow a negative button. Woo-hoo is very popular where I am from.
Then why have they said that it could refer to a more negative "something that is too good to be true" response as well as the positive "woo-hoo"in their official announcement? We use woohoo here too, but then one would assume they would use the full word, not woo, not like they need to shorten it for character length.6 -
TheWJordinWJordin wrote: »A programmer or tech manager had to make the final decision. They may have not known it was negative. I wonder. UnderArmour is hurting financially. It is possible it is all outsourced. MFP would not allow a negative button. Woo-hoo is very popular where I am from.
They took a poll of users - it was one of several options. I think all the suggested reactions were vetted long before the poll started.7 -
Anyone can tell me the other suggestions? Any of the others negative?
I'm still spooked MFP would allow anything slightly negative to be here. Woo-hoo is something I use often. I have never heard woo as in woo medicine. I live in the states.2 -
TheWJordinWJordin wrote: »I have never heard woo as in woo medicine. I live in the states.
Type it in the forum search function, see how many results you get
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/search?adv=&search=woo+science&title=&author=&cat=all&tags=&discussion_d=1&comment_c=1&group_group=1&within=1+day&date=
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Thank you tinker. Now..... I understand that woo can be negative. I honestly thought it was woo-hoo. I never heard "woo medicine" in my life.3
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TheWJordinWJordin wrote: »Thank you tinker. Now..... I understand that woo can be negative. I honestly thought it was woo-hoo. I never heard it before as negative in my life.
You probably have never seen so many questions asking if x pill/potion/lotion/wrap/diet will magically make people lose weight/give them super fit abs either as you will on the boards here either.
I don't really see it as a negative as such, more a critical response to information posted as a reply without any scientific backup like "eating 1200 calories for 1 week will make people go into starvation mode" or "Diet Coke makes you fat"
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I'm not inclined to use it. If I like what someone has posted, I'd be happy to tell them so.
If I'm not keen, or in agreement, or I don't know for sure, I'll just shut up.
I'd feel the need to always add "Woo as in great!" which kinda defeats the purpose of the brevity.2 -
lemurcat12 wrote: »Re "it must be woo hoo since MFP is positive only" -- MFP has issued an official explanation of what it means. (This is discussed upthread.) One of the meanings is "too good to be true." I do not consider pointing out that something is too good to be true = negative, but if you do this may be distressing for you.
I also kind of enjoy that it's ambiguous. And now that WooHoo! from the start of Blur's Song 2 keeps running through my head.
Why thank you, now its stuck in mine and i just got the pj masks theme tune outta there2 -
I'm going to use it purely for sarcasm7
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Sugarand, but other people may think you are praising the answer as Woo-Hoo.. So the purpose of sarcasm may not be understood.4
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TheWJordinWJordin wrote: »A programmer or tech manager had to make the final decision. They may have not known it was negative. I wonder. UnderArmour is hurting financially. It is possible it is all outsourced. MFP would not allow a negative button. Woo-hoo is very popular where I am from.
They took a poll of users - it was one of several options. I think all the suggested reactions were vetted long before the poll started.
I don't think the poll mentioned that it would be used for 2 completely opposite things. That makes no sense and I wouldn't have voted for it in that case. So now it's up to the poster, some of which don't even know what "woo" is, to decide if someone is cheering them or calling them out?3 -
TheWJordinWJordin wrote: »A programmer or tech manager had to make the final decision. They may have not known it was negative. I wonder. UnderArmour is hurting financially. It is possible it is all outsourced. MFP would not allow a negative button. Woo-hoo is very popular where I am from.
They took a poll of users - it was one of several options. I think all the suggested reactions were vetted long before the poll started.
I don't think the poll mentioned that it would be used for 2 completely opposite things. That makes no sense and I wouldn't have voted for it in that case. So now it's up to the poster, some of which don't even know what "woo" is, to decide if someone is cheering them or calling them out?
Agreed. It's useless if it means 2 contradictory things! I assumed it meant "bro- or pseudo-science." That is how the phrase is commonly used on these forums.
Seriously - how would "Woo" in a positive sense, meaning "Woo Hoo!", be different from "Awesome" anyway?!6 -
Ill say it. The woo button is dumb. Any dev worth a pinch of salt knows not to make a button with two polar opposite meanings.7
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I just learned that there's a drink called a woo woo: "an alcoholic beverage made of vodka, peach schnapps, and cranberry juice....The ingredients are usually shaken together with ice or stirred as preferred. A lime wedge is used as a garnish." (So I guess it's a sex on the beach without the orange juice?)
Anyway, now I might think of "woo" as a toast:
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Honestly, would it really send people into the depths of despair if we had a simple "disagree" option?5
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More seriously, maybe it's the "bless your heart" of MFP.6
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I'm personally using it to cast a vote for this post is full of pseudo science. ACV, diet pills, meal timing etc.2
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I'm still going with it meaning lol.
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Caporegiem wrote: »I'm still going with it meaning lol.
Actually, lol wouldn't be a bad option... sarcastic, but cheery
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mrsnattybulking wrote: »I'm personally using it to cast a vote for this post is full of pseudo science. ACV, diet pills, meal timing etc.
So then, we need to compile a database of each user and their intent when using the woo button... handy!
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TheWJordinWJordin wrote: »A programmer or tech manager had to make the final decision. They may have not known it was negative. I wonder. UnderArmour is hurting financially. It is possible it is all outsourced. MFP would not allow a negative button. Woo-hoo is very popular where I am from.
They took a poll of users - it was one of several options. I think all the suggested reactions were vetted long before the poll started.
I don't think the poll mentioned that it would be used for 2 completely opposite things. That makes no sense and I wouldn't have voted for it in that case. So now it's up to the poster, some of which don't even know what "woo" is, to decide if someone is cheering them or calling them out?
Agreed, I'm really disappointed. I voted for "woo" thinking if someone posts a question about not losing weight, and someone replies "Oh you should do the Military Diet", instead of twelve people quoting the reply and telling OP to ignore it, starting a thread-jacking argument, we could just smother the post in "Woo" and give good advice. But now I'm not going to use it, since an inexperienced OP could see the "Woo" as positive.
The only way I've seen the word "woo" used here is as a synonym for bro-science or Dr Oz, David Avocado crap. I assumed that's what it would mean. I never would have voted for it if I had known it would be introduced with two opposite possible meanings. So it's basically a confusing wasted piece of real estate that I will probably accidentally click a few times until I get used to it being there.
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Caporegiem wrote: »I'm still going with it meaning lol.
Actually, lol wouldn't be a bad option... sarcastic, but cheery
But then we'd argue about whether it means the person who clicks it is laughing at you or with you.
LOL ;-)
Perfect clarity eludes us always.4 -
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TheWJordinWJordin wrote: »A programmer or tech manager had to make the final decision. They may have not known it was negative. I wonder. UnderArmour is hurting financially. It is possible it is all outsourced. MFP would not allow a negative button. Woo-hoo is very popular where I am from.
They took a poll of users - it was one of several options. I think all the suggested reactions were vetted long before the poll started.
I don't think the poll mentioned that it would be used for 2 completely opposite things. That makes no sense and I wouldn't have voted for it in that case. So now it's up to the poster, some of which don't even know what "woo" is, to decide if someone is cheering them or calling them out?
Agreed. It's useless if it means 2 contradictory things! I assumed it meant "bro- or pseudo-science." That is how the phrase is commonly used on these forums.
Seriously - how would "Woo" in a positive sense, meaning "Woo Hoo!", be different from "Awesome" anyway?!
It isn't. 3
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