info on crosscrunch website

thank you to sanlin20.

when i see information that i may not be interested in or want i do not feel compelled to write in and comment. i simply pass it by. i do remark about information that i do like because i appreciate the input from others.

i feel we all have a responsibility to make others around us feel better. a long time ago i decided that people who made me feel better were pluses in my life and people who made me feel the same were equals and people who made me feel worse were minuses. why on earth would you spend your time with equals and minuses when you can spend your time with pluses.

that comment earlier made me feel bad. my intention has never been to use this as some public forum to benefit myself other than to look to be inspired and motivated. it helps me to read the comments about what others go through and how they feel because i've been there. there are times i have felt like quitting but my mom taught me what you start you do not stop. i told my mom about that site, i told my kids about that site. if someone sees me and says how great i look now i tell them about that site. for once in my life i connected what it meant to use food as fuel and i get teary eyed when i remember how i used to fight food. what that menu did for me was tomorrow i know i am going to be thinner than i was today. eating processed carbs i knew i was going to be fatter. i intend to be fit and healthy and i am invested in living as long as i can for my kids and special people in my life.

so a special thank you to the person sanlin20 who took the time to make a positive comment. i wasn't even going to read any more replies but i am glad that i saw yours.

I definitely agree with Sanlin in that I think pamelawh is sharing the information on crosscrunch.com with the best of intentions. She's been a great member and has offered to help other members several times and in numerous posts.

However, I would like to ask everyone on the site to post links to other websites on the forums only in moderation, if at all. There are a lot of other website owners who try to use forums to promote their own products or websites, and I don't want the forums here to become cluttered with ads or spam. Again, I absolutely don't think pamelawh is trying to advertise at all, but unfortunately, the only way to prevent spam is to set a more blanket rule that will sometimes catch the good with the bad.

I'm planning on writing up some forum rules soon just so that everyone is clear on what's permitted and not permitted on the forums. But in the meantime, please try to refrain from posting links to other sites as much as possible.

Thanks everyone!

Razboo, I think you're right.

Let me work on coming up with a more specific policy around what types of links I'd like to ban and what types would be permissible. The forums are meant to be a place to share information.

I think in general, links that seem ok to me are links to major medical websites like WebMD, CNN Health, etc. These sites provide valuable information for all of us. Links to "official" websites like the South Beach Diet or Weight Watchers would probably be ok also.

Links that seem bad to me are sites that promote products for sale or seem to be using our forums to advertise themselves. Links to sites that provide the same content that MyFitnessPal such as food databases, BMI calculators, etc. also would not be permitted because we work hard to provide you that information. And links that seem excessive, i.e. more than 2 or 3 links to a website promoting products for sale by a single member, even if the content is informational, would not be allowed because they could be construed as ads, even if the member didn't intend them that way.

Under this policy, I think a link to a page like crosscrunch.com/bonus would be totally fine as long as it's only 1 or two posts because the content on that page is informational. But a link to the crosscrunch.com homepage would not be permitted because that page is primarily an ad. And more than a couple of links to crosscrunch.com/bonus would also not be allowed, even if that link provides useful information.

A policy like that might be better at allowing the types of information sharing that we like without turning the forums into advertisements. I'll continue working on it, but let me know if you have any other suggestions or thoughts.

Thanks!

Hi Mike,
I totally agree with what you just posted. I think that the links are important because we are just sharing informtion that we have found useful and important to us. But I have to say that the crosscrunch thing was over done, the first day that I got into this forum and started reading the posts, I thought that this site was trying to sell us into going there instead, and I thought "why would you want us to go somewhere else", it was very confusing. I think that you should reserve the right to edit off any website mentioned that you don't feel appropriate or you see that it's over done. Some sensible rules will be good.

Mike:
Maybe we should have a menu link for free websites that really are helpful. I have no idea how this would be screened first. However there are sites that are helpful and instead of having people post them all the time, they could say "check out the web resources page". What do you think?

Hey Healthier - I tried your picture affect, but it didn't work out as good. Happy Halloween anyway. Try not to eat to many Charleston Chews. As for me, right now I have to go put away my peanut butter and triscuits before I turn into Julie of the Piggies..