HAHAHAHA

How cute are you???

Sorry it upset you, Maria. People all have opinions. Only mine matter. LOL JUST KIDDING.

Seriously, though. If you read something that upsets you, please don't treat it like a train wreck and keep watching it, bypass the thread.

I have received a tremendous amount of support and information from the OH site and plan to continue to use it as a tool for my WLS success. I refuse to let any post, or person posting for that matter, upset me. This is a very valuable tool to me, and the odd post where people are mean to each other can be skipped over so I can continue using this tool. And making a few friends along the way never hurts, either, right?

Linda

 

 Maria

If you stay on OH message boards long enough you will

make  someone mad whether or not you realize you have.

It may be a complete misunderstanding because you see

the posts on the message board cannot show facial

expressions, cannot let each other hear the tone of voice in

which we are speaking.


So yes eventually someone will be mad at you and may

even tell you so. they may even go so far as to block you.

But do not take this to heart because we are all here for

one reason, we were once obese or are obese and are on

our journey.


p.s. people do sometimes say things on the Internet what

they would not say face to face.

I don't know what post you are referring to on page 5.

 Unfortunately, like the rest of life, there is sometimes unpleasantness here.  We do have a rants board where people are supposed to confine this sort of stuff, but sometimes it spills over.  The best you can do is to ignore the stuff that bothers you.  There's lots of good stuff here too.

Linda

Or if it really upsets you...report it. If enough people do that then maybe it will get tossed to the R&R board and we LOVE when that happens.

GOD YES!  Any opportunity to throw around the C-word (as someone put it)  fills me with joy and perverse satisfaction!

Rants and Raves is my spiritual hone...sigh!

You made me go back and read the entire thing.  Highly entertaining!!!  I would say the poster got what she wanted--a response.  And for the people that kept posting they were feeding her.  It would have been better to just forget she was there--like ignoring a child who is not getting their way. 

 Maria,
Be careful in what you reply to bc there are "trolls" who are just waiting to pounce on people with legitmate questions.  I have been on here for over a year and a half and have learned to block people that I consider to be toxic.  If someone has a response to someone that goes over the line (what I consider to be over the line) I block them bc I don't really want to waste my time reading any of their other responses to people.  It has completely changed my OH experience.  I have a very positive experience and take away only positivity.  That is my choice of course and I am sure I will get slammed for my opinions expressed here but not to worry.  We get what we put out there in the universe and if that is positivity than we will get that in return. A smile is contagious.  
Stay positive and don't be scared away from OH.  Check out the WETEO daily thread (Watcha Eating Today EveryOne).  We are a group on here who are super supportive of each other and we've had the thread going for over 20months started by our fabulous leader Gina.  WE went for our annual get together in June in VEgas and next June we'll be going to Myrtle Beach.  We had about 13 of us go, some w/husbands.  IT was soo awesome.  We share clothes, tips, visit each other when we are in the city of another, support, celebrations, they even threw me a virtual wedding shower!!   Very close group.  Everyone is welcome!  
Please join us!
Lisha
Lisha

you said it best ldg. no matter where you go on this site someone is always looking to put someome down. i mean even on the responces for this paticular thread, their are posters that are down right bullies that are commenting. then their are the ones that thow more fule on the fire and egg them on. it just shows their true colors.

dee~cee

Hi!  This message board is pretty great for the most part with plenty of helpful people, informative posts & mostly encouraging words.

If a post bothers you, think of it like TV - just change the channel.  Or in the case of a message board, stop reading the thread & move on to another one.

Enjoy the board & try not to get too upset.  I wasn't even aware of the post/thread you were referring to until this post.  Now I read through the whole thing too.  Yikes.  The funny thing is that if you hadn't pointed it out here, I would have skipped it (I'm not blaming you at all - I read through it because I wanted to understand why you're upset).  If you noticed, there were plenty of people giving the OP plenty of good advice throughout the back & forth bickering.  That's all I'm going to write about that thread.

I'm glad you've read good information & enjoyed support you've received here.  Focus on that.  The great thing about being online versus real life is that you really can ignore the negative.

Hope you have a good night too :)