Now please don't use that tone, because it's kind of hot, and makes it difficult to stay adversarial. *smirk*

Ok, well to clarify, that was in response to your one-liner, not your edited, expanded post.

Ummm...yeah. about 2 months ago, I stepped on and she said "it's been 293 days since your last visit" and I was like O M G, she's going to electrocute me as soon as I weigh in! LOL

this might be a bit of a derail, but the ageism issue has come up in a few threads recently, and i think i'm one of the youngest posters here so it's made me stop and think.

i found this community shortly after i turned 24 and it's definitely changed my life and i'm really grateful for it.

there've been a few cases where i've felt people were condescending towards me because of my age, but thankfully those have been relatively few and far between.

i'm grateful that there are people here who actively want to welcome younger people and who value what we have to say. not only that, but people who want (and are willing to support) our participation fully in the community - it meant a lot to me to get a scholarship to the reunion and to have people ask me and follow up with me about being able to go. and to have people just continuously engage with me through rep comments, posts, and pms. i have almost always felt welcomed and valued here.

i definitely wouldn't want anyone to leave because they felt attacked on the basis of age. (or because they felt like they did/said something stupid...i think we've all done that here more than a few times. i know i have, and often it had nothing to do with age.)

Haha! I HATE that "OH", and I don't think I even warrant an "OH".
Now, if it were "ooooohhhhh", I could deal, but really?!?
She makes me very angry sometimes.

http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/attach...-baby-fist.bmp

I'm all for a community of diversity, however, I don't believe in excusing people's behavior because of X (pick age or whatever you'd like). Yes, I can see how some mistakes can be made because of someone's inexperience with the website; yes, I did see some extremely vicious posts in response to the OP, but I would expect a person who is a PhD candidate from MIT to be able to understand where the conflict is coming from and why, and to formulate a response. At 23 I worked full time, went to school, and was paying a mortgage. 23 is adulthood. Young adulthood yes, but still adulthood.

Again i dont get it... So what age is appropriate to engage in questioning statements and facts that seem downright questionable?..... 30...35?

and how long do we have to wait for the new member to respond to not one but many questionable statements?..... 6 months.....1 year?

So what changes in that time as far as our facts and "treatment" goes?

I thought treatment had to do with how we asked,what we said, how we said it,

I didnt realize that just questioning the validity/facts was outright poor treatment.

I was raised that if it smells like poop.... go ahead call it poop!

and/or its ok to question things and encouraged at times to do so.....

While using respectfull language.

I will stand by how my mom taught me!

I'm a meatball:/
 

The Wii fitness voice is a SADIST!!!!


*measuring* measuring*

LMAO! Okay, I admit, sometimes I want to snuff out that voice!

Yes the "poop" has been called out by you and several others multiple times.

What do you want, blood?

People can always contact Admin if they think it's a serious issue.

and people CAN comment about it ... in these are forums...threads where we can discuss and post and have the right to do so while following the TOS.

again just because we dont agree or believe the same doesnt mean its poor treatment.

What i would like?... only cuz you asked!.....sounded like you were asking me from the blood ? .... is to be able to call poop-poop and respond and/or question facts without it being some how called poor treatment.

It feels seriously shitty to me and that is my honest opinion. I don't care if you agree with me or not.

Edit: what I feel is shitty is for people to keep hammering away.

Maybe she is stretching the truth for attention or maybe she is missing something in her life, lies are never good regardless and I do not believe her age plays into anything im just a few years older and know lies get no one anywhere, I dont tolerate lies but I also try to stop and put myself in the persons shoes she obviously is doing it for one reason or another has anyone stopped to ask her Steph what's making you stretch the truth we will accept you without the lies and your safe here so just explain why I am always here as a listening ear

I'm not sure what you're basing your opinion on, but I don't see anything that far out of line. I saw some shitty posts, yes, but nothing I haven't seen before, and I'm not even sure they broke any TOS. I see a lot of posts where people are questioning the OP's statements because they are quite fantastic, but like so many of these types of threads, when the OP doesn't return to respond to even the most neutral and sincerest of questions, it leads to speculation by others who have already posted. And like other threads before this, if the OP never comes back, it'll be chalked up to another hoax and everyone will forget about it.