Who else hates the ‘motivational’ dashboard headlines?

ilovenickcave · June 2022

Hi,

How can we switch off the new judgy little negative attempts at motivation on our dashboards?

They are so aggravating —I know I’m not that only one triggered.

So far I had a few days of condescending “it’s never too late to start again” (I have not failed at this, thank you) then something about what I look like, then some other bitter sounding negativity meant to sound uplifting.

I left feedback for the developers and they told me to “learn to like it.”

My friend K who uses this app shares my ED also finds it incredibly discouraging. Is this not a place for people with ED??

Can’t we be allowed to opt out of reading regurgitated, phoned in, potentially triggering drivel?

Thanks

ninerbuff · June 2022

Sounds like therapy would be a better option for you than the boards. Honestly, if motivating and actual positive re-enforcement statements bug you, it's not the statement that's the issue.

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ilovenickcave · June 2022

You’re really lacking some reading comprehension there bud. If it doesn’t apply to you, and many things won’t, just move on!

goal06082021 · June 2022

I'm actually going to come down on the side of the OP, here. I will say I haven't paid much attention to the messages at the top of the dashboard, but now that I have gone and looked at them, I got the following:

"One day at a time, you got this." - Okay, sure, thanks MFP.

"It's not too late to begin again." - ...I'm on a 579-day streak, but sure, alright.

"It's a new day. Let's do this." - ...it's 7:30 PM, MFP, are you high?

So yeah, I agree, these messages are annoying at best. The most charitable possible read I can give is they're trying to get me to buy premium, given the little "Get Premium" button right below them, which means they're getting ignored just like all of the other exhortations to give this website money for any reason. Bin 'em or give users the option to turn them on or off - a simple "Welcome back" is sufficient if there absolutely needs to be text right there.

AnnPT77 · June 2022

I didn't even notice they were there, at first.

In general, I dislike motivational quotes (but love the demotivator posters at the despair.com web site (with which I'm not affiliated in any way, except as a fan)).

However, I also like Epictetus' "People are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of them." I like that really, really a lot, as in it's part of my core life philosophy (to the extent I have one).

I can easily, easily ignore those quotes, so I'm not gonna let them annoy me. It's a waste of energy. It's my job to keep me in a reasonably calm state, not the rest of the world's responsibility. Besides, IME, lots of people like motivational quotes (bizarre as that seems to me 🤷‍♀️).

BTW: They appear in the premium version. Is there a way to get rid of them? Don't know: I haven't bothered to look.

Hiawassee88 · June 2022

@ninerbuff
If free membership is a good fit - you must acquit. If you're not the CEO then let it goooo.

Who else hates the ‘motivational’ dashboard headlines?

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