Can someone please explain the Woo reaction?

23MJ88DBFan

What does it mean? Is someone making fun of you or are they actually excited by what you said?

RunnerGrl1982

Take a peek at this thread here:

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10623894/the-origin-and-meaning-of-woo/p1

also:

https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10570889/new-community-reaction-woo#latest

cmriverside

With that said ^^ don't give it too much creedence unless there are a lot of woos on one post. A couple or three could be user error or not knowing the Community meaning. A bunch of them mean something is not quite right on the post.

But don't get your feelings hurt. It's really not an important thing. It does lead to funny discussions, though.

Fatty_Nuff

23MJ88DBFan wrote: »

What does it mean? Is someone making fun of you or are they actually excited by what you said?

I love getting both woo reactions. This is a fun community and I try to not take things too seriously here. Like egg diets, and the "cheat days" threads that pop up every five minutes.

Competeballpythons

I thought woo was like a Ric Flair “WooOO!!!”
Guess not

Duck_Puddle

It’s a way to help people be confused.

It could mean “yay great” or it could mean “what a bunch of woo-bs”. And there’s no way to know if someone is woo-ing a post for one or the other.

There’s also no way to know what specifically prompted a woo vote. The post could be a 17,000 word essay of quality info and then it uses the word “toning” and BOOM-157 woos. Or it could be the entire post is nonsense from start to finish. Or it could be woo’d because the poster is acting like a sanctimonious *kitten*. Or it could be people are cheering. Or it could be someone didn’t understand the post/post was unclear and was interpreted to mean something it didn’t. Or it could be someone was scrolling on their phone and accidentally hit the woo as they went by. Or someone doesn’t like the poster and wants to keep the high school spirit alive by “wooing” every post they make.

Nobody knows.

If you see a whole bunch of woos-it usually means the post either asks about or contains information that is generally incorrect. But you’ll never know what exactly promoted the woos unless there are comments/responses (which there usually are).

Danp

Anything less than 2 or 3 'Woo' can be ignored.

It can be people miss-clicking or not quite understanding the reaction's purpose. It's also used by some people in a petty manner. I know I have at lest one Woo Stalker who will automatically Woo any post I make regardless of what it is. More than likely just someone that I've called out for posting misinformation or had a disagreement with and that's their childish way of getting back at me. LOL!

L1zardQueen

Danp wrote: »

Anything less than 2 or 3 'Woo' can be ignored.

It can be people miss-clicking or not quite understanding the reaction's purpose. It's also used by some people in a petty manner. I know I have at lest one Woo Stalker who will automatically Woo any post I make regardless of what it is. More than likely just someone that I've called out for posting misinformation or had a disagreement with and that's their childish way of getting back at me. LOL!

Maybe they don’t like Imperial Stormtroopers. Lol

Danp

L1zardQueen wrote: »

Danp wrote: »

Anything less than 2 or 3 'Woo' can be ignored.

It can be people miss-clicking or not quite understanding the reaction's purpose. It's also used by some people in a petty manner. I know I have at lest one Woo Stalker who will automatically Woo any post I make regardless of what it is. More than likely just someone that I've called out for posting misinformation or had a disagreement with and that's their childish way of getting back at me. LOL!

Maybe they don’t like Imperial Stormtroopers. Lol

That must be it. Damn rebel scum!

ginagurl79

Depends on the convo. I woo’d somebody excitedly

23MJ88DBFan

I'm just now realizing this thread actually posted. It disappeared after I submitted. Anyhoo, "open to interpretation" apparently is the reader's digest version. I must seem like a total goober Lol but I don't even understand the facial expression of the woo Emoji, its so ambiguous, so I had to ask. At any rate, I'll just keep swimming...