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Post by DebDoesWW on Aug 29, 2018 18:03:09 GMT
squid, sorry I am caffeine deprived so not sure what you are asking. I donāt think you need to ālog onā to anything. If you are on Connect seeing the posts you are already logged on. Just go to the āreplyā area on something you want to respond to and post your reply. The hashtags are for something you want to look for like if you want to search for recipes you would type #recipes and everyone who has put that name #recipes with their recipe you would find them listed. It is kinda of like a title to group things and keep them all together. If you want to ātagā someone so they see you response you do the same thing you do here and add the @ symbol before their name with no space. Honestly I havenāt actually used it since it first came out so if I am wrong on anything someone please feel free to jump on in with the correct answer.
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Post by itsrad on Aug 29, 2018 18:11:43 GMT
Well, I just searched #pumpkinfluff and found 18 posts.
Full circle.
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Post by linda72 on Aug 29, 2018 18:39:44 GMT
itsrad , I read through some of the pumpkinfluff recipes and found some variation with them. Not sure the SP quoted are accurate but I probably won't be making it anyway. But, I'm sure if I did make it I would eat it all. ETA: and one of the nice people I followed, because of the great meal pictures he posted, was missing. He said earlier this week he was quitting for awhile, I think because of the mean posts to him. He has 92,000 followers. What a bunch of idiots.
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Post by itsrad on Aug 29, 2018 19:10:33 GMT
That is really unfortunate, linda72 I think WW thought when they got rid of the meanies on the message board that they had solved the problem. The trouble is that there are people who use social media to be hateful, and WW is certainly not immune to that. Twitter is a great example - If WW wants Connect to be a safe space, they will probably need to crank up their moderation - and they'll be right back where they were with the message boards.
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Post by vicki on Aug 29, 2018 20:04:05 GMT
itsrad , I read through some of the pumpkinfluff recipes and found some variation with them. Not sure the SP quoted are accurate but I probably won't be making it anyway. But, I'm sure if I did make it I would eat it all. ETA: and one of the nice people I followed, because of the great meal pictures he posted, was missing. He said earlier this week he was quitting for awhile, I think because of the mean posts to him. He has 92,000 followers. What a bunch of idiots. Monte?
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Post by linda72 on Aug 29, 2018 20:13:14 GMT
vicki, yes. Monteking had wonderful inspiring posts and jealous people were constantly putting him down. He posted an 8-minute video on Monday (I think) and he said he was tired of the negativity. Example: he posted a delicious looking lunch with brussels sprouts and some people objected to the b. s. ("I hate brussels sprouts. Yuk." Then someone else said they wouldn't try brussels sprouts because this other person hated them.) Monte said "If you don't like my food pictures, that's fine. Block me and move on." He had 93,000 people who followed him but it just takes a few to ruin things. WW needs to come up with something to combat these trolls. Monte said he was blocking about 10 people a day who spewed hate but he was fed up. I hope he returns.
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Post by itsrad on Aug 29, 2018 20:37:44 GMT
linda72 , the problem WW has is that Connect is part of what you pay for - so to get rid of the trolls, they would have to get rid of the account. I don't see them blocking paying customers.
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Post by 76trojan on Aug 29, 2018 20:43:24 GMT
I followed Monte as well. He has been saying for some time that some people were criticizing his food choices, arguing with him about his various philosophies (like cutting out added sugars), questioning his point usage, and the like. I wish he could have ignored them but I guess it got to him, which is too bad because his chats were very informative. Another person I follow who is very inspirational having lost lots of weight also commented on the critical hate posts she has received. But what really was concerning is the woman who had just lost her son, and some people were commenting to her that all she wanted was sympathy. What is with people? WW is going to end up with a real problem on their hands.
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Post by vicki on Aug 29, 2018 20:44:06 GMT
linda72Monte is still on Connect but hasn't posted in 3 days. There is still hope he may stay. I lost 2 of my favorite posters and would hate to lose another. Why are people so mean?
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Post by itsrad on Aug 29, 2018 20:52:56 GMT
WW is going to end up with a real problem on their hands. This. Social media is monster than can get out of control. WW's struggled to monitor the trolling on their message boards, and that was a fairly static, confined environment. I can't imagine why they thought Connect would be any different, and I wouldn't be at all surprised if some of the trolls were the same. When we moved over here, they (the trolls) struggled to follow. Most of the boards that were created in the aftermath of the WWMB shutdown (GDT, CAM, etc) are closed boards. Which means that you have to be approved to even see the boards, let alone post. We had a modified version of that for awhile (you could read but not post without approval) when we had a spam attack in the spring (that was ProBoard wide, not directed specifically at us).
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Post by zazzles on Aug 29, 2018 23:17:09 GMT
If WW wants Connect to be a safe space, they will probably need to crank up their moderation - and they'll be right back where they were with the message boards. Not quite, because if WW has been successful in cultivating and addicting young people to the platform, then regardless of what turn it takes those people will continue paying for membership in order to be able to access Connect. The older message boards, as we all know, were free to the public. I don't see them blocking paying customers. But I'm under the impression that they said they COULD block members from Connect, for cause, without terminating their membership.
WW needs to evolve the Connect platform and make it more friendly to all users by supporting the different ways they want to use it. Groups would be one way. A simple feature to post to followers only would be another. A "one click" "Block" feature certainly would go a long way towards improving user experiences. And the biggest change of them all that SHOULD be made is to make photos and videos show up as thumbnails instead of scaling them to the entire width of whatever device they are being viewed on. I mean, underwear photos of overweight people can be bad enough, but when they automatically scale up to fill the size of an iPad or a 15" laptop screen, it is JUST.TOO.MUCH.
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Post by pamthomas46 on Aug 30, 2018 1:44:11 GMT
š§ I knew there was a reason Iāve never gotten involved with Connect.
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Post by fullmahina on Aug 30, 2018 11:00:10 GMT
š§ I knew there was a reason Iāve never gotten involved with Connect. I made a few attempts---never posted but gave it a chance. The longest I could bear reading the posts was about five minutes. Five minutes before the feet-on-scales and the bare-bellies-topped-with-sports-bras did me in. Five minutes before the accounts of personal tragedies had me clicking off. Sorry for your loss, of course, but I gotta go. And now it seems that Connect has devolved into what was most likely inevitable and happens in so many online forums, The Drama. Feeling are hurt, someone pulls the "I'm taking my ball and going home" thing, and other members take sides and rally. PM's are exchanged behind the scenes, people who are in touch via PM's broadcast that they have contacted the aggrieved and yes, they are alive but terribly wounded, perhaps they will return, perhaps not. The Drama. There are times when people have had enough and the sum total of enjoyment doesn't outweigh the annoyance factor and they move on. For some, the conflict alone is what they enjoy and they stoke the fires, make some popcorn, and sit back and wait for the next installment. Still others take what is useful for them and ignore the rest. I go way back to the days of usenet groups in the '90's and not much has changed as far as discussion groups go. Connect, for me, is a monumental waste of time. YMMV, of course, and if you get something that you feel is worthwhile then by all means, enjoy.
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Post by itsrad on Aug 30, 2018 11:52:19 GMT
fullmahina, you've summed it up beautifully. I did get a chuckle out of the behind the scenes chatter. I know we have that here also. The Drama. I made the mistake of participating in a couple of those back on the old boards. Realized quickly that I had no patience for it. Don't have any patience for it IRL either. I'm quite adept at ignoring people. If I wasn't a moderator, I would have blocked some people. Life has enough conflict without creating it.
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Post by zazzles on Aug 30, 2018 13:28:37 GMT
fullmahina, well said. I saw a post the other day by someone harkening back in time to a family's personal tragedy and had the same kind of though that fullmahina mentioned. I was on the web version of Connect, so couldn't report it as inappropriate. So I went to the mobile app and looked for that post but never saw it again. It seemed like it had been removed. So perhaps WW is being a LITTLE pro-active in poofing some of these posts. As others said, WW should have known that Connect would end up in the same place as the old message boards. The only way to avoid that is to have full-time moderation with approval of every post before it sees the light of day. And that's certainly not compatible with Mindy's cost-cutting strategies.
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