Newbies, beware.

If the people who have been on here for awhile are seeing the same things posted over and over, who cares? Don't respond to it. Just move to the next posting, and let the people who actually care to help others do so.

I've already started to ignore them, especially since I started knowing more about fitness and nutrition than many of the people new to this site. I was explaining what I imagine is the attitude of some people.

I do care, if I didn't, I wouldn't bother. There's no great honor or reward in anonymously dispensing advice. I provide what I view as the accurate advice.

I stopped reading the threads on the Fitbit site because 10 times a day there was a post on How Do I Set Up My Fitbit? There have been 100 threads on that and it's in the FAQ for heaven's sake.

MFP has helped me because logging my calories was important. A couple of groups, like the one on Intermittent Fasting, are helpful and actually tell me things I don't already know. In time, I'll probably quit MFP except maybe for the IF group.

I can't read another post on how if you skip a meal or drop below 1,200 calories you'll starve to death, or how if you are not losing weight the FIRST thing you should do is eat more without running screaming from the room. I must say that reading post after post like that has opened my eyes to the delusions that have allowed many people to get seriously overweight and obese.

What about the successfully lean, healthy, strong, and fit crowd who keeps pushing for for the undereaters to eat more and get out of their ruts? Are they playing a practical joke?

hardly a shoot-down
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/585774-what-s-the-best-excercise-for-your-tummy

Not very nice though.

I don't know if we're clicking the same link and getting to two very different threads or not, but there was a lot of help on that thread. Very confusing to me.

What I've seen a lot on here in the time I've been here is that people ask a question and don't give sufficient information and then get mad at people for answering it because they don't want the answers to be the ones they're getting. I see a little bit of that going on. Then they set themselves up as the victim of all these mean people, and in this pattern I see the "victim" was the one that was getting huffy at everyone else. Often they start a thread then to talk about how they were victimized,

The result of that pattern that I've seen over and over and over in the past year, is that people who've been here get tired of being called names and yelled at by people they are trying to help.

So my constructive suggestion to Newbies, is to not ask a question until you really are ready to consider the honest answers you receive from others. If you ask for help, particularly with caps and !!!!'es and then argue back at people who try to help, you're just making this a worse place, not a better one. There are some really cool people here who remain happy to help, but they don't like getting yelled at and called mean either.

Just flush the negative. It's like anything else on the internet, everyone has something to say and it's not always positive.

Feel free to add me to your friends. I'm always up for positive encouragement, answering questions etc.