An observation about MFP posters...
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And for the record, I was referring to the people who call someone "a fat pig" (as one poster said she was called) or something along those lines. I also saw someone told "to get off their fat lazy a** and work out." Perhaps that was an inside joke, hence the reason I wouldn't report anyone, I think that's up to the OP to handle if necessary. I totally get that people are sarcastic and that text reads wrong without proper inflection and body language. There are some comments that are unmistakeable in their meaning.
And I'm really dense because I had no idea there was such a thing as an ignore button. Seriously... learn something new every day.
You know... I remember that thread. A horrible person made a statement about people in general and one individual, who was not even the OP, decided that it was aimed specifically at her, and suddenly everyone who disputed her irresponsible, illogical, and ignorant claims were attacking her and calling her a 'fat pig'. Several of the people that she claimed were attacking her reported that individual including myself, but that didn't stop her from latching on a statement that wasn't even directed at her and claiming she was being verbally abused by the group.
Sometimes, it's a matter of perception.
whoa, what a poo storm0 -
There was a squirrel in my backyard yesterday. It was not that cute.
Does it have the same smelly breath as your cat...try the interdental brushes???
Or you could care about it, give it a cuddle and add it to your friends list?
Oddly enough, its breath smelled like nuts
WAWKA WAWKA!
Pine nuts smell sooooo fresh, did you give it a drink of water???
I tried but it kept running away from the hose. Darn wily critter.0 -
If each of us reported every snarky post and if the forum monitors took it seriously, we might fight the good fight and WIN!
(And by snarky I mean purposefully hurtful, shallow, argumentative and rude. We know the difference between that and a sensitive disagreement.)
I'd personally rather the mods spent their time removing potentially dangerous posts than be your personal decorum police....I think I'll pass on joining this movement.0 -
And for the record, I was referring to the people who call someone "a fat pig" (as one poster said she was called) or something along those lines. I also saw someone told "to get off their fat lazy a** and work out." Perhaps that was an inside joke, hence the reason I wouldn't report anyone, I think that's up to the OP to handle if necessary. I totally get that people are sarcastic and that text reads wrong without proper inflection and body language. There are some comments that are unmistakeable in their meaning.
And I'm really dense because I had no idea there was such a thing as an ignore button. Seriously... learn something new every day.
You know... I remember that thread. A horrible person made a statement about people in general and one individual, who was not even the OP, decided that it was aimed specifically at her, and suddenly everyone who disputed her irresponsible, illogical, and ignorant claims were attacking her and calling her a 'fat pig'. Several of the people that she claimed were attacking her reported that individual including myself, but that didn't stop her from latching on a statement that wasn't even directed at her and claiming she was being verbally abused by the group.
Sometimes, it's a matter of perception.
whoa, what a poo storm
hahaha what a good bit of terminology ` poo storm` gonna save that one for a rainy day!
There will always be haters and lovers and then you have the inbetweeners, I know which one I would rather be.0 -
There was a squirrel in my backyard yesterday. It was not that cute.
Does it have the same smelly breath as your cat...try the interdental brushes???
Or you could care about it, give it a cuddle and add it to your friends list?
Oddly enough, its breath smelled like nuts
WAWKA WAWKA!
Pine nuts smell sooooo fresh, did you give it a drink of water???
I tried but it kept running away from the hose. Darn wily critter.
Couldn`t finish without asking about the poor little wily critter....is he/she OK after the hosing?
Always remember what goes around comes around :-)0 -
Agreed.If each of us reported every snarky post and if the forum monitors took it seriously, we might fight the good fight and WIN!
(And by snarky I mean purposefully hurtful, shallow, argumentative and rude. We know the difference between that and a sensitive disagreement.)
I'd personally rather the mods spent their time removing potentially dangerous posts than be your personal decorum police....I think I'll pass on joining this movement.0 -
If each of us reported every snarky post and if the forum monitors took it seriously, we might fight the good fight and WIN!
(And by snarky I mean purposefully hurtful, shallow, argumentative and rude. We know the difference between that and a sensitive disagreement.)
I'd personally rather the mods spent their time removing potentially dangerous posts than be your personal decorum police....I think I'll pass on joining this movement.
I find that comment shallow and argumentative. If I join this movement do I have to report you?0 -
If each of us reported every snarky post and if the forum monitors took it seriously, we might fight the good fight and WIN!
(And by snarky I mean purposefully hurtful, shallow, argumentative and rude. We know the difference between that and a sensitive disagreement.)
I'd personally rather the mods spent their time removing potentially dangerous posts than be your personal decorum police....I think I'll pass on joining this movement.
I think you just called into question the actions of mods. Strike worthy btw.0 -
If each of us reported every snarky post and if the forum monitors took it seriously, we might fight the good fight and WIN!
(And by snarky I mean purposefully hurtful, shallow, argumentative and rude. We know the difference between that and a sensitive disagreement.)
I'd personally rather the mods spent their time removing potentially dangerous posts than be your personal decorum police....I think I'll pass on joining this movement.
I find that comment shallow and argumentative. If I join this movement do I have to report you?
I will have to report you first for making negative and hateful statements about members.0 -
If each of us reported every snarky post and if the forum monitors took it seriously, we might fight the good fight and WIN!
(And by snarky I mean purposefully hurtful, shallow, argumentative and rude. We know the difference between that and a sensitive disagreement.)
I'd personally rather the mods spent their time removing potentially dangerous posts than be your personal decorum police....I think I'll pass on joining this movement.
I find that comment shallow and argumentative. If I join this movement do I have to report you?
Why oh why!?!??0 -
I love the snark that goes on here. It gives me hope that when I'm ready to bust out Snarky Quirkytizzy, it will be well received.
Plus, it makes me laugh. And weight loss is usually so unfunny it's depressing. The funny here makes it way better!0 -
If each of us reported every snarky post and if the forum monitors took it seriously, we might fight the good fight and WIN!
(And by snarky I mean purposefully hurtful, shallow, argumentative and rude. We know the difference between that and a sensitive disagreement.)
I'd personally rather the mods spent their time removing potentially dangerous posts than be your personal decorum police....I think I'll pass on joining this movement.
I find that comment shallow and argumentative. If I join this movement do I have to report you?
I will have to report you first for making negative and hateful statements about members.
Oh, cr*p!0 -
You have left me no option but to unleash the popcorn, sit back, relax and watch the mods delete!
Thanks for the entertainment :laugh:0 -
I think the best thing to do is to ignore the bad and listen to the good, like life really.0
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You can both consider yourselves reported. Disagreeing with me falls in to the potentially dangerous category I previously mentioned.If each of us reported every snarky post and if the forum monitors took it seriously, we might fight the good fight and WIN!
(And by snarky I mean purposefully hurtful, shallow, argumentative and rude. We know the difference between that and a sensitive disagreement.)
I'd personally rather the mods spent their time removing potentially dangerous posts than be your personal decorum police....I think I'll pass on joining this movement.
I find that comment shallow and argumentative. If I join this movement do I have to report you?
I will have to report you first for making negative and hateful statements about members.
Oh, cr*p!0 -
If each of us reported every snarky post and if the forum monitors took it seriously, we might fight the good fight and WIN!
(And by snarky I mean purposefully hurtful, shallow, argumentative and rude. We know the difference between that and a sensitive disagreement.)
Who is this "we" that holds the key to how all statements should be read?
I think that "we" is directly related to those people and the "they said mean things" people.0 -
When I joined here.. the person that referred me told me this: "It's a great site. There are helpful people. Stay away from the forums as much as possible."0
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When I joined here.. the person that referred me told me this: "It's a great site. There are helpful people. Stay away from the forums as much as possible."
and yet... here you are :laugh: :laugh:0 -
Opinions are scary.0
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You can both consider yourselves reported. Disagreeing with me falls in to the potentially dangerous category I previously mentioned.If each of us reported every snarky post and if the forum monitors took it seriously, we might fight the good fight and WIN!
(And by snarky I mean purposefully hurtful, shallow, argumentative and rude. We know the difference between that and a sensitive disagreement.)
I'd personally rather the mods spent their time removing potentially dangerous posts than be your personal decorum police....I think I'll pass on joining this movement.
I find that comment shallow and argumentative. If I join this movement do I have to report you?
I will have to report you first for making negative and hateful statements about members.
Oh, cr*p!
You are being reported for flame-baiting because you must surely be trying to incite a fight with such nonsensical statements like you being dangerous.0 -
I'm still waiting for the mean people to come out of their holes on this thread.0
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I learned very quickly to be very careful in the forums, not to get involved in any inflammatory situations,and to ignore those who come into the forums looking to be rude, nasty, and to lay their hateful side out for the whole world to see. It's just another form of attention seeking for those who never got past the need for the world to look at what they're doing.
There is so much that can be posted that's really good, informative, and supportive of those who are here to lose weight (or gain it) that many people get put off the site completely when they see it happening and stop reading, stop supporting, and many will go so far as to leave.0 -
I've found some lovely people on the forums, but I have found the troll population has gone up.
Personally, I think it's because they're tired of answering all the same questions by the same type of people that should just know better. Once a week there's a 'have you tried the XYZ diet and did it work?' or 'I'm loosing tonnes of weight by only eat 900cals!' 'why should I eat back my exercise calories?' when all these things are pretty much covered by MFP to begin with.
If there's a genuine post that I find likable or interesting I will jump in, even add people from the convocations and say hi to the newbies.0 -
If each of us reported every snarky post and if the forum monitors took it seriously, we might fight the good fight and WIN!
(And by snarky I mean purposefully hurtful, shallow, argumentative and rude. We know the difference between that and a sensitive disagreement.)
I'd personally rather the mods spent their time removing potentially dangerous posts than be your personal decorum police....I think I'll pass on joining this movement.
This place is way overpoliced and sanitized of discussion and opinion. It loses a lot of its value due to that.
More energy on the forum software, less on the bridles.0 -
Also some people... I'm afraid to say... just need to grow thicker skin. If someone disagrees with you, you can't take it as a personal attack, which I've seen sooo many times. If someone doesn't believe you, it's their prerogative- they're not being mean they're just waiting for you to back stuff up.
Other times, there are people who are just plain childish.0 -
I read the OP's statement, and probably the next 7 or 8 posters below the O.P.
I'm new. It is sad that the "MFP troll patroll" holds so much weight over you's. I quickly concluded these people(the trolls) aren't like this in there non MFP life. Most of them have to use these forums to say what there saying, because they wish they could be like that in "person" with people, but can't muster there honesty. A LOT, never post there own REAL picture of themselves because they'd flat out be embarrassed to know people would be able to recognise them.
These trolls are not a majority on this website, even it feels like it to you at times. part of the problem is most the time nobody wants to call them out on how rude or demeaning they are. At the same time I understand, who wants to spend there time typing to someone who has the maturity of an 8 yr old, if that.
I feel for those who say they don't go into the forums anymore because of this. I myself have spent less time in a hand full of forums for the same reason. The trolls don't scare me, I'm not worried about there "gifs" they throw around because they have nothing else of value to add to a forum discussion, I think it's just stupid to give them any more attention and partake in a back in forth with them. I don't mind giving my 2 cents to them, using logic in my comment, and then not commenting back. It's not the last comment that wins, it's who's the bigger person. I like forums like these, where the OP uses logic and doesn't use name calling to antagonize the trolls, so when the trolls appear, you can call a spade a spade. it exposes them too.
I wonder if MFP has a way to block members from the site, using there IP addresses if they use so much vulgar behavior.
I'd already concluded that some of these trolls have multiple accounts, so in fact, it's the same person using multiple accounts at a time, so it seems like multiple people feel the same as one troll in particular. another side note, it seems that most of the trolls are friends on here, so they know when there troll friend posts to another topic, or they just message them, and then guess what, here comes the troll patrol, lol.
I feel for the OP and others that feel the same and don't use the forums as much because of them, at the same time, the more the trolls post the way they do, the more people leave the forums, the more MFP staff might notice, and start seeing a trend they don't like. I don't know if they could or would do something about it, only time will tell.0 -
I was on MFP over a year ago and found it to be a super helpful site for tracking diet and exercise. I also found the community to be full of supportive people who gave helpful advice, motivation and camaraderie. Even those people who gave out "tough love" did it in a respectful way. After a major injury and a pregnancy I stopped logging and participating on MFP. Now that I'm back on MFP I've been lurking through the community and see a ton of disrespectful comments towards the original poster as well as towards other people who have commented on the post. Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of people who still hold true to my past experiences and the site is still very helpful but... wow there sure are a lot of people out there who are jerks to each other. I have been lucky enough to not experience these people first hand on this go-round but I really feel for the people who have.
Did I just miss these folks the last time I was on?
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Honestly, even the people who think they are the "innocent victims" can be just as ugly as anyone else with their comments. Just watch the comments that follow - people will come in here, and agree with you about all the "meanies", and turn around and throw around insults.
One of the biggest problems I have with people who complain about how bad things are, is that most of the time the examples they use about someone being mean or snarky just turn out to be about another poster who simply didn't agree with their comment. In the land of MFP, not agreeing makes you and a-hole, bully, snark, or meanie! Some people's kids! :grumble:
Yep. It's usually the "kind, supportive, caring folk" who run around reporting every thread and poster they don't like. If you say you really enjoy Thanksgiving one of those "kind, caring" people will report you because you don't understand how hard it is to try to control your eating. Yep. No lie.
The internet is like life. Not everyone is nice. But for some reason people expect the thousands and thousands of members here to all be their friends and love them.
Not once have I ever heard anyone walk into their office and proclaim, "You know.. not everyone here is a nice person!" Of course not, that would be crazy. But for some reason people expect it here.
This exactly. It constantly amazes me that people seems to think that on the internet everyone should be hearts and flowers. If you dont like someone skip there post. If you dont like the topic in a thread dont read it .It s really very simple
and yet it constantly amazes me that people seem to think that on the internet you can be flat out rude just because its the "internet" and people shouldnt have feelings. Regardless, its a form of bullying and its not okay. Just goes to shows one character AND I try to keep off the forums for this very reason. Treat others how you want to be treated...in real life OR on the internet...period.
This *is* how I behave online and off. And yet, there are still occasionally those who say I'm "mean".
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I read the OP's statement, and probably the next 7 or 8 posters below the O.P.
I'm new. It is sad that the "MFP troll patroll" holds so much weight over you's. I quickly concluded these people(the trolls) aren't like this in there non MFP life. Most of them have to use these forums to say what there saying, because they wish they could be like that in "person" with people, but can't muster there honesty. A LOT, never post there own REAL picture of themselves because they'd flat out be embarrassed to know people would be able to recognise them.
These trolls are not a majority on this website, even it feels like it to you at times. part of the problem is most the time nobody wants to call them out on how rude or demeaning they are. At the same time I understand, who wants to spend there time typing to someone who has the maturity of an 8 yr old, if that.
I feel for those who say they don't go into the forums anymore because of this. I myself have spent less time in a hand full of forums for the same reason. The trolls don't scare me, I'm not worried about there "gifs" they throw around because they have nothing else of value to add to a forum discussion, I think it's just stupid to give them any more attention and partake in a back in forth with them. I don't mind giving my 2 cents to them, using logic in my comment, and then not commenting back. It's not the last comment that wins, it's who's the bigger person. I like forums like these, where the OP uses logic and doesn't use name calling to antagonize the trolls, so when the trolls appear, you can call a spade a spade. it exposes them too.
I wonder if MFP has a way to block members from the site, using there IP addresses if they use so much vulgar behavior.
I'd already concluded that some of these trolls have multiple accounts, so in fact, it's the same person using multiple accounts at a time, so it seems like multiple people feel the same as one troll in particular. another side note, it seems that most of the trolls are friends on here, so they know when there troll friend posts to another topic, or they just message them, and then guess what, here comes the troll patrol, lol.
I feel for the OP and others that feel the same and don't use the forums as much because of them, at the same time, the more the trolls post the way they do, the more people leave the forums, the more MFP staff might notice, and start seeing a trend they don't like. I don't know if they could or would do something about it, only time will tell.
lol. This is rich coming from you.0 -
I've noticed it got more hostile... right around the time they put in the ban on underwear photos.
Thus... Panties make everyone happier.0
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