"Woo" Button to Comment on Posts (?)
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Yes to both per the official announcement:
Woo can mean two things. You can click it both to mean woo as in woo-hoo or to express that you think an idea or approach is too good to be true.
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10570889/new-community-reaction-woo#latest17 -
Woo for posts that encourage anti-scientific belief (aka ACV, diet pills, starvation mode..etc)8
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All I know is I'm having trouble coping with it. Every time I see it I want to laugh and start clapping.19
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I read it as wooohooo and just keep clicking it because I like the smiley face by it18
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It's either woo-hoo! or woo-woo.5
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I gave someone a woo because I saw the smiley face and thought it was short for woo-hoo! I kind of love that it's dual use. Are people cheering you on or calling you out? Can you tell? OMG!15
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It's gorgeously passive-aggressive!31
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Just what the forums need! :laugh:10
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Does it make anyone else think of this...?
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kristikitter wrote: »Does it make anyone else think of this...?
OMG yes hahahaha4 -
Windrunner666 wrote: »Woo for posts that encourage anti-scientific belief (aka ACV, diet pills, starvation mode..etc)
I like this idea but "woo" is not a very good term for it since people evidently don't even know what it means and will click it for other reasons, something like "broscience" which is far less ambiguous and obvious would be much better.8 -
I had hopes that the "Woo" button might help stop knowledgeable members from having to post on every single one of the 87 billion "ACV is great for weight loss" threads (for example) that get started. Instead of everyone responding directly, the option would be to just mark the OP as "Woo," and let a few responding posts explain why.
But since Woo has two 'sanctioned meanings' which are pretty much polar opposites - and the OP would very likely think that all the Woo's they're garnering means that ACV is *awesome* (simply because if they're starting the thread in the first place they are clearly unfamiliar with what "Woo" means other than, "You go, girl!") - it's rendered what could have been a useful option into one that's incredibly unhelpful.
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snickerscharlie wrote: »I had hopes that the "Woo" button might help stop knowledgeable members from having to post on every single one of the 87 billion "ACV is great for weight loss" threads (for example) that get started. Instead of everyone responding directly, the option would be to just mark the OP as "Woo," and let a few responding posts explain why.
But since Woo has two 'sanctioned meanings' which are pretty much polar opposites - and the OP would very likely think that all the Woo's they're garnering means that ACV is *awesome* (simply because if they're starting the thread in the first place they are clearly unfamiliar with what "Woo" means other than, "You go, girl!") - it's rendered what could have been a useful option into one that's incredibly unhelpful.
That's MFP! Woohoo! :laugh:13 -
snickerscharlie wrote: »I had hopes that the "Woo" button might help stop knowledgeable members from having to post on every single one of the 87 billion "ACV is great for weight loss" threads (for example) that get started. Instead of everyone responding directly, the option would be to just mark the OP as "Woo," and let a few responding posts explain why.
But since Woo has two 'sanctioned meanings' which are pretty much polar opposites - and the OP would very likely think that all the Woo's they're garnering means that ACV is *awesome* (simply because if they're starting the thread in the first place they are clearly unfamiliar with what "Woo" means other than, "You go, girl!") - it's rendered what could have been a useful option into one that's incredibly unhelpful.
Yup, a potentially very useful feature ruined before it even got started due to a stupid choice of words. Critical thinking not even once.7 -
Is it woo
or is it short for woohoo ?? two entirely different reponses!6 -
Why am I finding it so difficult to find a woo response today - normally there are millions
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Agree that it's completely useless as it means both per the developers. And quite annoyed that it's after the 'awesome' button as I typically try to use that a lot in the challenge threads, and I've almost clicked the useless 'woo' button instead now that it's there at the end of the list. grrrr....
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Agree that it's completely useless as it means both per the developers. And quite annoyed that it's after the 'awesome' button as I typically try to use that a lot in the challenge threads, and I've almost clicked the useless 'woo' button instead now that it's there. grrrr....
So you know, if you click on the wrong button, you can just click on the one you intended to use instead and it will change it.
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snickerscharlie wrote: »Agree that it's completely useless as it means both per the developers. And quite annoyed that it's after the 'awesome' button as I typically try to use that a lot in the challenge threads, and I've almost clicked the useless 'woo' button instead now that it's there. grrrr....
So you know, if you click on the wrong button, you can just click on the one you intended to use instead and it will change it.
Yea, I know...but it's my Pavlovian response to just click the last one...and now every time I have to stop and pick the next to the last one because of a potentially useful button made impotent by the developers' definition, it just irks me that I have to change my routine. If the button were actually useful, I'd get over it and quietly retrain myself. Instead having something useless there is just annoying, IMO. First world problems, clearly.3 -
It's a positive comment. MFP would never put anything negative or that could put down people. Like woo-hoo.5
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We need a sucks button11
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TheWJordinWJordin wrote: »It's a positive comment. MFP would never put anything negative or that could put down people. Like woo-hoo.
You'd think so, but the official explanation says otherwise.5 -
I intend to just not use it in cases where the post I'd like to "Woo" would be interpreted as me supporting the bad idea contained within it. Instead, I'll just continue to use "Insightful" "Inspiring" or "Awesome" to support the posts that counter it.
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My first thought was:
Woo |wuː|
verb (woos, wooing, wooed) [with object]
try to gain the love of (a woman), especially with a view to marriage: he wooed her with quotes from Shakespeare.14 -
I'm just gonna use it for everything. Like Frank's Red Hot sauce.
MFP is one big woo-fest anyway. :laugh:9 -
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.3
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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.
And yet....2 -
I miss the "agree" button. That was so handy!
I kind of like that the "woo" button has more than one meaning. Nobody knows whether you think something is woo or are cheering someone on. So everyone is right all the time! 4 -
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.6
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