Why the WOOs
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J9LynnHelton wrote: »I really am truly perplexed, How is that worth a WOO?
Since we have conclusively determined, beyond a shadow if a doubt, the scientific fact that the Woo button is purposefully ambiguous...
You are free to interpret the Woo feedback as you wish.
All joking aside, unless people specifically tell you otherwise, I suggest you take them as "woo-hoo!"s. You are making great progress weight-wise. The meal plan you are on may be the stepping stone you need to get on a path toward healthy living. A path you may not have gone down otherwise. Hopefully the eventual switch to "regular" food will be a breeze for you.
We all have different weight loss journeys and various ways to get and stay motivated. Lifestyle changes are difficult enough. We don't need other people's negativity compounding our own. Given the choice, interpreting feedback in the most positive light will likely serve you best.
Wishing you a happy, healthy future!3 -
40lbslighter wrote: »My comments get "woo" all the time. I'm betting it's the negative "woo"
I completely disagree.
1) There is a smiley face above the "woo" button. Thus indicating positivity.
2) The buttons appear to be in (somewhat) increasingly positive order:
Like, then Awesome, then Woo (with smiley face)
3) The MFP forums are intended to be supportive, not bashing in any way. So I am sure the button creators did not intentionally place a quick - reply key for "you're full of crap."
Since "woo" has both positive and negative connotations, I agree that the button should instead read "woo-hoo" or be deleted altogether.
I am grateful the OP brought this issue to my attention as I give "woo"-hoo's out daily. Armed with this new information I shall immediately cease and desist!!
Some of this has been addressed already, but I wanted to touch on the look of the woo emoji.
The forums come with several predetermined reactions, but MFP has the ability to override these to change the word descriptor. I don't think they can change the emoji. As far as I can tell, they uses "lol" and changed it to "woo," which is why the emoji looks the way it does.0 -
I thought woo was good! Like a woo who! Or a yeahman! Yeehaw!5
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snickerscharlie wrote: »Here is the officially sanctioned meaning of the Woo button:
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10570889/new-community-reaction-woo#latest
So yes, it is completely ambiguous and therefore entirely meaningless.
Life's too short to stress out about something so insignificant.
You are right! I wasnt stressed as much as confused, but thank you for the reminder to relaxand enjoy the victories of life.3 -
The "woo" button should go in my opinion due to its ambiguity. In many english speaking places, including the U.S. woo usually is a positive like Woo-hoo. On this forum however woo has long meant someone or something not based in fact. Something like "You're full of woo" or "that's a load of woo". "Eating after 6pm doesn't make you fat, that's woo". I think the latter, more negative meaning was the intention of adding the button. If woo was intended to be positive like "woo-hoo" then it's seems incredibly redundant to have choices for both woo and awesome. If woo is to be negative like I think it is then why can't it simply be something like "disagree" or "dislike"?6
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The "woo" button should go in my opinion due to its ambiguity. In many english speaking places, including the U.S. woo usually is a positive like Woo-hoo. On this forum however woo has long meant someone or something not based in fact. Something like "You're full of woo" or "that's a load of woo". "Eating after 6pm doesn't make you fat, that's woo". I think the latter, more negative meaning was the intention of adding the button. If woo was intended to be positive like "woo-hoo" then it's seems incredibly redundant to have choices for both woo and awesome. If woo is to be negative like I think it is then why can't it simply be something like "disagree" or "dislike"?
Because MFP is all about the good-feelz.
And I can only imagine the number of butthurt reports the mods would get if there *was* an actual dislike/disagree button.
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The option to "Woo" posts is pointless (I guess they don't have the courage to add an "unlike" -- that would be too mean).
I'm not even sure what it's supposed to mean. Am I cheering you on when I give you a "Woo" (i.e. "woohoo!"), or am I claiming that you are presenting unsubstantiated information (a.k.a "woo")?
The tooltip when I mouseover the "Woo" isn't any help, either (it simply repeats the enigmatic "Woo").1 -
snickerscharlie wrote: »Here is the officially sanctioned meaning of the Woo button:
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10570889/new-community-reaction-woo#latest
So yes, it is completely ambiguous and therefore entirely meaningless.
Life's too short to stress out about something so insignificant.
...and yet...2 -
Being French I thought the woo was used sarcastically!1
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I think the woo button is ridiculous, how would a newbie know if people are cheering their first post or jumping all over their *kitten*? And if they assume cheering and later find out the 2 dozen woos they got were actually "this is crap" I think it might put them off using the forums permanently, which would be too bad. Why don't they just use a neutral agree / disagree option? Disagree is pretty straight forward and less personal than dislike. And a lot less sarcastic than woo.5
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I got a woo for finding a maggot in a muffin and *sarcastically* -we need a sarcasm button- suggesting I use that vision to trick myself out of eating. "Wooo that was gross" or "wooo that won't work"? Who cares. The woo button is ambiguous. But we need that sarcasm button.1
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Sometimes I sarcastically click 'insightful' or 'inspiring' when really I think the person is full of crap. Not that it amuses anyone but me, but my point is that you can't really tell what an anonymous vote for one of these reaction buttons really means.4
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scarlett_k wrote: »Sometimes I sarcastically click 'insightful' or 'inspiring' when really I think the person is full of crap. Not that it amuses anyone but me, but my point is that you can't really tell what an anonymous vote for one of these reaction buttons really means.
In other words:
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