snobbish on MFP?

I'm not offended or anything, but I don't really understand the point of saying to a huge open forum of vastly different personalities that there seem to be a lot of snobs. It's rather off-putting, like it doesn't make me want to immediately send you a friend request.

Just a tip, calling people snobs, prob not the best way to get friends. After all, we are all here to get healthy and make friends with people who will be supportive of our goals.

This is nothing....parenting forums are the worst! honestly they shouldn't be called parenting forums they should be aptly named "my childs better than yours" forum!

Oh and if you don't like what people say do as you would if they said it in person......walk on buy....or punch them in the face :laugh:
becuase thats how I roll - kidding!

OMG. OMG I know!!! I was on Cafemom for a while and just could not DEAL with how awful people were to each other about their parenting styles. And the bragging...omg, just don't even go there.

You should try Babycenter... it's worse... even though I did make some awesome friends from there... but still.

Also, I'm sorry to offend anyone...

Why? The only person responsible for being offended is the offendee...

I'm on several different forums.

for weight loss, this one BY FAR is the most active. i got some snarky comments on a different site when I asked a completely innocent question about weight loss. So I haven't been back there. I don't need the toxicity.

ALL forums have their trolls, snobs, whiners etc. If I see trouble brewing, I TRY to stay away. Sometimes I just get angry and have to put in my $0.02.

Just look at it this way, people are behind a computer screen, so we can't see them, we can't make judgements about them, so they feel they can let it all out. We don't know them, where they work or live...the internet is a 'safety' place.

BTW...I am a snob...a cupcake snob.

I've been on here regularly now for a week and have read some cool stuff. Also I've noticed that some people seem so stuck up!

I am regularly baffled by the online behavior I see on MFP. Not the mean stuff, or the snob stuff or the name calling or the arguing - I see that on every. single. Internet. forum. I've. ever. belonged. to. I am baffled by the ratio of "why are people so mean/rude/snobbish" threads to the amount of meanness/rudeness/snobbery I actually see on the forum.

MFP is tame by Internet forum standards. At least the forums I've participated in. Does MFP attract a lot of people that haven't participated in online forums before? Or is there a correlation between weight loss and hypersensitivity? I really don't understand. Do we get our feelings hurt more when we're hungry?

OP, what is the expected result of starting a thread like this? I'm not trying to be mean or snobbish or trying to ridicule. I am genuinely curious.

I've been on here regularly now for a week and have read some cool stuff. Also I've noticed that some people seem so stuck up!

I am regularly baffled by the online behavior I see on MFP. Not the mean stuff, or the snob stuff or the name calling or the arguing - I see that on every. single. Internet. forum. I've. ever. belonged. to. I am baffled by the ratio of "why are people so mean/rude/snobbish" threads to the amount of meanness/rudeness/snobbery I actually see on the forum.

MFP is tame by Internet forum standards. At least the forums I've participated in. Does MFP attract a lot of people that haven't participated in online forums before? Or is there a correlation between weight loss and hypersensitivity? I really don't understand. Do we get our feelings hurt more when we're hungry?

OP, what is the expected result of starting a thread like this? I'm not trying to be mean or snobbish or trying to ridicule. I am genuinely curious.

Excellent post and observation, my friend. I would have to agree. I was on a music message board awhile back and it got far more brutal than anything I have ever seen here. I, too, wonder why people are so sensitive here. Perhaps it is because of the lack of previous message board experience. The only message board I've ever been on where the people were always civil to one another was a vegetarian message board I was on several years ago. Every other one was constant bickering and bullying. You just have to have a thick skin and learn to ignore the things you don't like. Otherwise, if you speak out against those things, prepare yourself for some backlash (that's where the thicker skin comes into play).

I do like your second thought too. Maybe people are just more sensitive when they want a piece of pizza and they can't have it. If I'm hungry and b*tchy I am far more likely to call out someone who is being an idiot in a thread. Add that to the fact that weight-loss message boards are a magnet for insecure people and you have a calorie free recipe for disaster.

I am definitely a stuck-up b*tch.

LIES!!!!!!!!!!!! You are a HOT, stuck-up B*TCH

I've been on here regularly now for a week and have read some cool stuff. Also I've noticed that some people seem so stuck up!

I'll have my people get a hold of your people and sort this bad manner thing out! HAHA

JK, I hope you find a lot of cool people on here because I think it is a cool site with a lot of cool people.