The Origin and Meaning of "Woo"

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  • nutmegoreo
    nutmegoreo Posts: 15,532 Member
    NovusDies wrote: »
    nutmegoreo wrote: »
    AnnPT77 wrote: »
    pinuplove wrote: »
    kshama2001 wrote: »
    Machka9 wrote: »
    Whelp, I've been using the woo button as praise. Sorry to all the folks I've unintentionally ticked off. No more buttons for me!

    You can use Like, Insightful, Inspiring, and Hug. :)


    I wish they would change Woo to "Disagree" -- something clearer and not so insulting.

    That would be my preference, but if they don't want to do that, than just get rid of it. As was demonstrated on this thread, there is a lot of confusion about the meaning of "Woo".

    If they got rid of Woo I'd figure out how to passive-aggressively use "hug" as the new woo. "Bless your heart" like how the little old ladies in the southern US use it.

    I've also been know to use "inspiring" when a post in particularly funny and I don't feel like "like" is enough. Or "insightful" for a wonderfully sarcastic post or one that's giving major side-eye. Good stuff.
    :flowerforyou: is the ultimate in MFP passive aggressiveness.

    Hey, don't ruin :flowerforyou: entirely! It can be nice, too. Context is everything.

    And I like woo, even ambiguous woo, having been around when there was no negative reaction available at all.

    Trust me, you do not want to be hearing in actual words from the people who woo innocuous posts, or follow others around just to woo to see their posts. These are not smart, funny, or insightful people. More stupid fight threads frightening new people, then getting censored or closed, is a worse problem that a few ambiguous or unwelcome woos.

    Let the passive aggressives woo to their hearts' content. We're all better off that way.

    Oh gosh. The days of a relatively innocuous first post followed by a page of "that's stupid" and then 19 pages of cat gifs and "in b4 the roll."

    Wait. There were cat gifs? I changed my mind. I would have hated that. I would have been banned but before I was banned I would have hated it.

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  • kgeyser
    kgeyser Posts: 22,505 Member
    AnnPT77 wrote: »
    pinuplove wrote: »
    kshama2001 wrote: »
    Machka9 wrote: »
    Whelp, I've been using the woo button as praise. Sorry to all the folks I've unintentionally ticked off. No more buttons for me!

    You can use Like, Insightful, Inspiring, and Hug. :)


    I wish they would change Woo to "Disagree" -- something clearer and not so insulting.

    That would be my preference, but if they don't want to do that, than just get rid of it. As was demonstrated on this thread, there is a lot of confusion about the meaning of "Woo".

    If they got rid of Woo I'd figure out how to passive-aggressively use "hug" as the new woo. "Bless your heart" like how the little old ladies in the southern US use it.

    I've also been know to use "inspiring" when a post in particularly funny and I don't feel like "like" is enough. Or "insightful" for a wonderfully sarcastic post or one that's giving major side-eye. Good stuff.
    :flowerforyou: is the ultimate in MFP passive aggressiveness.

    Hey, don't ruin :flowerforyou: entirely! It can be nice, too. Context is everything.

    And I like woo, even ambiguous woo, having been around when there was no negative reaction available at all.

    Trust me, you do not want to be hearing in actual words from the people who woo innocuous posts, or follow others around just to woo to see their posts. These are not smart, funny, or insightful people. More stupid fight threads frightening new people, then getting censored or closed, is a worse problem that a few ambiguous or unwelcome woos.

    Let the passive aggressives woo to their hearts' content. We're all better off that way.

    I think there would be lot a people who would be surprised and disappointed to see the usernames attached to the woos of innocuous posts or who follow others around to woo their posts.

    The purpose of the woo button was to reduce the ensuing trainwreck of 50 people coming to attack and mock some ridiculous claim, like "drinking a tbsp of ACV at precisely 10:43 pm while covered in dryer lint will cause weight loss and cure cancer."

    A lot of users come here having heard ridiculous diet myths on social media, and it was meant as a non-aggressive response to someone promoting those myths so that others who were able to respond civilly and politely could provide helpful information. That way the information wouldn't get lost in bunch of "hurr durr derp woo" responses from people who are unable to respond in a non-snarky way to people who are trying to learn.

    It's unfortunate that the response has been abused to the point that it is effectively meaningless.
  • nutmegoreo
    nutmegoreo Posts: 15,532 Member
    NovusDies wrote: »
    nutmegoreo wrote: »
    NovusDies wrote: »
    nutmegoreo wrote: »
    AnnPT77 wrote: »
    pinuplove wrote: »
    kshama2001 wrote: »
    Machka9 wrote: »
    Whelp, I've been using the woo button as praise. Sorry to all the folks I've unintentionally ticked off. No more buttons for me!

    You can use Like, Insightful, Inspiring, and Hug. :)


    I wish they would change Woo to "Disagree" -- something clearer and not so insulting.

    That would be my preference, but if they don't want to do that, than just get rid of it. As was demonstrated on this thread, there is a lot of confusion about the meaning of "Woo".

    If they got rid of Woo I'd figure out how to passive-aggressively use "hug" as the new woo. "Bless your heart" like how the little old ladies in the southern US use it.

    I've also been know to use "inspiring" when a post in particularly funny and I don't feel like "like" is enough. Or "insightful" for a wonderfully sarcastic post or one that's giving major side-eye. Good stuff.
    :flowerforyou: is the ultimate in MFP passive aggressiveness.

    Hey, don't ruin :flowerforyou: entirely! It can be nice, too. Context is everything.

    And I like woo, even ambiguous woo, having been around when there was no negative reaction available at all.

    Trust me, you do not want to be hearing in actual words from the people who woo innocuous posts, or follow others around just to woo to see their posts. These are not smart, funny, or insightful people. More stupid fight threads frightening new people, then getting censored or closed, is a worse problem that a few ambiguous or unwelcome woos.

    Let the passive aggressives woo to their hearts' content. We're all better off that way.

    Oh gosh. The days of a relatively innocuous first post followed by a page of "that's stupid" and then 19 pages of cat gifs and "in b4 the roll."

    Wait. There were cat gifs? I changed my mind. I would have hated that. I would have been banned but before I was banned I would have hated it.

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    That's stupid. :tongue:

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    They are addictive to post, but it does shut down communication.
  • kshama2001
    kshama2001 Posts: 28,052 Member
    AnnPT77 wrote: »
    pinuplove wrote: »
    kshama2001 wrote: »
    Machka9 wrote: »
    Whelp, I've been using the woo button as praise. Sorry to all the folks I've unintentionally ticked off. No more buttons for me!

    You can use Like, Insightful, Inspiring, and Hug. :)


    I wish they would change Woo to "Disagree" -- something clearer and not so insulting.

    That would be my preference, but if they don't want to do that, than just get rid of it. As was demonstrated on this thread, there is a lot of confusion about the meaning of "Woo".

    If they got rid of Woo I'd figure out how to passive-aggressively use "hug" as the new woo. "Bless your heart" like how the little old ladies in the southern US use it.

    I've also been know to use "inspiring" when a post in particularly funny and I don't feel like "like" is enough. Or "insightful" for a wonderfully sarcastic post or one that's giving major side-eye. Good stuff.
    :flowerforyou: is the ultimate in MFP passive aggressiveness.

    Hey, don't ruin :flowerforyou: entirely! It can be nice, too. Context is everything.

    And I like woo, even ambiguous woo, having been around when there was no negative reaction available at all.

    Trust me, you do not want to be hearing in actual words from the people who woo innocuous posts, or follow others around just to woo to see their posts. These are not smart, funny, or insightful people. More stupid fight threads frightening new people, then getting censored or closed, is a worse problem that a few ambiguous or unwelcome woos.

    Let the passive aggressives woo to their hearts' content. We're all better off that way.
    kimny72 wrote: »
    Yep, as someone else who remembers those days, the current situation is far from perfect, but is definitely better. There were always several dumpster fire threads at a time cycling through the process of: someone posts a bizarre reply in a thread, followed by three pages of quoting replies telling them how bizarre their post was, followed by several pages of passive aggressive back and forth, followed by the thread being closed and then nuked, and the innocent OP never got to read the two or three useful answers that were posted before the dumpster fire. As a newbie, it was off-putting and once I started participating it was frustrating to see people with legit questions have their threads hijacked and disappear without them getting the help they need.

    I'd like to think there is a better way, but I vote a resounding "no" on going back to the way it was.

    Thanks for giving me perspective! I was around for those days as well, and these days are definitely an improvement.

    I still think there is more room for improvement, but appreciate this reminder.
  • snowflake954
    snowflake954 Posts: 8,399 Member
    nutmegoreo wrote: »
    AnnPT77 wrote: »
    pinuplove wrote: »
    kshama2001 wrote: »
    Machka9 wrote: »
    Whelp, I've been using the woo button as praise. Sorry to all the folks I've unintentionally ticked off. No more buttons for me!

    You can use Like, Insightful, Inspiring, and Hug. :)


    I wish they would change Woo to "Disagree" -- something clearer and not so insulting.

    That would be my preference, but if they don't want to do that, than just get rid of it. As was demonstrated on this thread, there is a lot of confusion about the meaning of "Woo".

    If they got rid of Woo I'd figure out how to passive-aggressively use "hug" as the new woo. "Bless your heart" like how the little old ladies in the southern US use it.

    I've also been know to use "inspiring" when a post in particularly funny and I don't feel like "like" is enough. Or "insightful" for a wonderfully sarcastic post or one that's giving major side-eye. Good stuff.
    :flowerforyou: is the ultimate in MFP passive aggressiveness.

    Hey, don't ruin :flowerforyou: entirely! It can be nice, too. Context is everything.

    And I like woo, even ambiguous woo, having been around when there was no negative reaction available at all.

    Trust me, you do not want to be hearing in actual words from the people who woo innocuous posts, or follow others around just to woo to see their posts. These are not smart, funny, or insightful people. More stupid fight threads frightening new people, then getting censored or closed, is a worse problem that a few ambiguous or unwelcome woos.

    Let the passive aggressives woo to their hearts' content. We're all better off that way.

    Oh gosh. The days of a relatively innocuous first post followed by a page of "that's stupid" and then 19 pages of cat gifs and "in b4 the roll."

    THOSE were the good old days!
  • try2again
    try2again Posts: 3,562 Member
    NovusDies wrote: »
    try2again wrote: »
    Someday it's going to be revealed that the person going around "wooing" all the posts in the woo threads is @kimny72 , @lemurcat2 , @AnnPT77 , or somebody else like that :D

    Or someone who accused them to avoid being under suspicion themselves.

    Lol... you got me ;)
  • try2again
    try2again Posts: 3,562 Member
    lemurcat2 wrote: »
    kgeyser wrote: »
    AnnPT77 wrote: »
    pinuplove wrote: »
    kshama2001 wrote: »
    Machka9 wrote: »
    Whelp, I've been using the woo button as praise. Sorry to all the folks I've unintentionally ticked off. No more buttons for me!

    You can use Like, Insightful, Inspiring, and Hug. :)


    I wish they would change Woo to "Disagree" -- something clearer and not so insulting.

    That would be my preference, but if they don't want to do that, than just get rid of it. As was demonstrated on this thread, there is a lot of confusion about the meaning of "Woo".

    If they got rid of Woo I'd figure out how to passive-aggressively use "hug" as the new woo. "Bless your heart" like how the little old ladies in the southern US use it.

    I've also been know to use "inspiring" when a post in particularly funny and I don't feel like "like" is enough. Or "insightful" for a wonderfully sarcastic post or one that's giving major side-eye. Good stuff.
    :flowerforyou: is the ultimate in MFP passive aggressiveness.

    Hey, don't ruin :flowerforyou: entirely! It can be nice, too. Context is everything.

    And I like woo, even ambiguous woo, having been around when there was no negative reaction available at all.

    Trust me, you do not want to be hearing in actual words from the people who woo innocuous posts, or follow others around just to woo to see their posts. These are not smart, funny, or insightful people. More stupid fight threads frightening new people, then getting censored or closed, is a worse problem that a few ambiguous or unwelcome woos.

    Let the passive aggressives woo to their hearts' content. We're all better off that way.

    I think there would be lot a people who would be surprised and disappointed to see the usernames attached to the woos of innocuous posts or who follow others around to woo their posts.

    The purpose of the woo button was to reduce the ensuing trainwreck of 50 people coming to attack and mock some ridiculous claim, like "drinking a tbsp of ACV at precisely 10:43 pm while covered in dryer lint will cause weight loss and cure cancer."

    A lot of users come here having heard ridiculous diet myths on social media, and it was meant as a non-aggressive response to someone promoting those myths so that others who were able to respond civilly and politely could provide helpful information. That way the information wouldn't get lost in bunch of "hurr durr derp woo" responses from people who are unable to respond in a non-snarky way to people who are trying to learn.

    It's unfortunate that the response has been abused to the point that it is effectively meaningless.

    In Disqus and various other forums you can see who left positive and negative reactions. I think that would be a better way and stop the woo stalking and passive aggressive nonsense.

    Yes, anonymity makes people very brave foolish.
  • try2again
    try2again Posts: 3,562 Member
    pinuplove wrote: »
    NovusDies wrote: »
    try2again wrote: »
    Someday it's going to be revealed that the person going around "wooing" all the posts in the woo threads is @kimny72 , @lemurcat2 , @AnnPT77 , or somebody else like that :D

    Or someone who accused them to avoid being under suspicion themselves.

    I think people might be surprised how many of us DON'T regularly use the woo button, much less woo-stalk users we might not care for, simply because we appreciate just how meaningless the reaction is and prefer to either respond or simply ignore, depending on the situation.

    ^This. I never use the woo button because I don't want the person to mistakenly think they are being cheered on.
  • sijomial
    sijomial Posts: 19,809 Member
    Kiyomoo wrote: »
    sijomial wrote: »
    Kiyomoo wrote: »
    I use it as "wow", which can be a good wow or a bad wow.

    UserA: I've lost 50 pounds!
    Me: Woo emoji (wow! good job!)

    UserB: I hate animals.
    Me: Woo emoji (wow...)

    @Kiyomoo

    Then you are insulting people by marking their posts as bro science, BS or WTF.

    Please don't be rude when you intend to congratulate!
    How about actually saying something nice instead?

    I think calling it rude is going a little far, considering the sheer amount of people who use it in a positive way. I am not the only one.

    If you struck up a conversation with a stranger and said "You're talking BS" do you think they would think you were being rude? Because that's exactly what you are doing whatever your intentions are.

    "I'm are not the only one doing it wrong" is a poor defense when many people have told you what the button really means.

    You could call my pet a dog despite her having whiskers, chasing mice and going meowww - that other people can't tell the difference between a cat and a dog doesn't mean you should continue to do it wrong.
  • try2again
    try2again Posts: 3,562 Member
    sijomial wrote: »
    Kiyomoo wrote: »
    sijomial wrote: »
    Kiyomoo wrote: »
    I use it as "wow", which can be a good wow or a bad wow.

    UserA: I've lost 50 pounds!
    Me: Woo emoji (wow! good job!)

    UserB: I hate animals.
    Me: Woo emoji (wow...)

    @Kiyomoo

    Then you are insulting people by marking their posts as bro science, BS or WTF.

    Please don't be rude when you intend to congratulate!
    How about actually saying something nice instead?

    I think calling it rude is going a little far, considering the sheer amount of people who use it in a positive way. I am not the only one.

    If you struck up a conversation with a stranger and said "You're talking BS" do you think they would think you were being rude? Because that's exactly what you are doing whatever your intentions are.

    "I'm are not the only one doing it wrong" is a poor defense when many people have told you what the button really means.

    You could call my pet a dog despite her having whiskers, chasing mice and going meowww - that other people can't tell the difference between a cat and a dog doesn't mean you should continue to do it wrong.

    This poster went on to say she stopped using it in a congratulatory way since reading this thread. :)

    But don't your first 2 sentences make the point that it's rude to use woo for it's stated purpose?
  • RelCanonical
    RelCanonical Posts: 3,882 Member
    pinuplove wrote: »
    NovusDies wrote: »
    try2again wrote: »
    Someday it's going to be revealed that the person going around "wooing" all the posts in the woo threads is @kimny72 , @lemurcat2 , @AnnPT77 , or somebody else like that :D

    Or someone who accused them to avoid being under suspicion themselves.

    I think people might be surprised how many of us DON'T regularly use the woo button, much less woo-stalk users we might not care for, simply because we appreciate just how meaningless the reaction is and prefer to either respond or simply ignore, depending on the situation.

    Hug stalking, however......
    pinuplove wrote: »
    NovusDies wrote: »
    try2again wrote: »
    Someday it's going to be revealed that the person going around "wooing" all the posts in the woo threads is @kimny72 , @lemurcat2 , @AnnPT77 , or somebody else like that :D

    Or someone who accused them to avoid being under suspicion themselves.

    I think people might be surprised how many of us DON'T regularly use the woo button, much less woo-stalk users we might not care for, simply because we appreciate just how meaningless the reaction is and prefer to either respond or simply ignore, depending on the situation.

    Hug stalking, however......

    I prefer "inspiring" stalking myself. Minor but non-harmful confusion, lol.
  • Fivepts
    Fivepts Posts: 517 Member
    just as FYI, if a post get 5 'woo' votes it gets hidden from the thread... oooooooooooooooooh....

    But yours has 8 now and it's still here.
  • NovusDies
    NovusDies Posts: 8,940 Member
    pinuplove wrote: »
    NovusDies wrote: »
    try2again wrote: »
    Someday it's going to be revealed that the person going around "wooing" all the posts in the woo threads is @kimny72 , @lemurcat2 , @AnnPT77 , or somebody else like that :D

    Or someone who accused them to avoid being under suspicion themselves.

    I think people might be surprised how many of us DON'T regularly use the woo button, much less woo-stalk users we might not care for, simply because we appreciate just how meaningless the reaction is and prefer to either respond or simply ignore, depending on the situation.

    Hug stalking, however......

    Agreed. Anonymous hugging is uber creepy.

    I don't use the woo for anything. When I was first here, like some people, I thought it mean woot or something similar but after I learned I stopped completely. I told my wife about the woo thing and we had a good derisive laugh over it.
  • pinuplove
    pinuplove Posts: 12,871 Member
    edited March 2019
    pinuplove wrote: »
    NovusDies wrote: »
    try2again wrote: »
    Someday it's going to be revealed that the person going around "wooing" all the posts in the woo threads is @kimny72 , @lemurcat2 , @AnnPT77 , or somebody else like that :D

    Or someone who accused them to avoid being under suspicion themselves.

    I think people might be surprised how many of us DON'T regularly use the woo button, much less woo-stalk users we might not care for, simply because we appreciate just how meaningless the reaction is and prefer to either respond or simply ignore, depending on the situation.

    Hug stalking, however......

    Is perfectly acceptable :flowerforyou:
    NovusDies wrote: »
    pinuplove wrote: »
    NovusDies wrote: »
    try2again wrote: »
    Someday it's going to be revealed that the person going around "wooing" all the posts in the woo threads is @kimny72 , @lemurcat2 , @AnnPT77 , or somebody else like that :D

    Or someone who accused them to avoid being under suspicion themselves.

    I think people might be surprised how many of us DON'T regularly use the woo button, much less woo-stalk users we might not care for, simply because we appreciate just how meaningless the reaction is and prefer to either respond or simply ignore, depending on the situation.

    Hug stalking, however......

    Agreed. Anonymous hugging is uber creepy.

    I don't use the woo for anything. When I was first here, like some people, I thought it mean woot or something similar but after I learned I stopped completely. I told my wife about the woo thing and we had a good derisive laugh over it.

    With @tacklewasher it's never anonymous :lol: He knows I hugged him. Hugged you too :tongue: