Hit and run posters?

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tribal1

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What do you think of people who make one post and then hit the road never bothering to respond to the suggestions made? While a few of them are trolls and post obscenities or spam what about the rest?

Have they been shocked by the responses or simply quit? For example on the weight loss thing at the top of the forum when I started there were about a dozen but now there are only 5 or 6.

Keeping fit/Weight loss is not a one day "event" like a day out to Disneyland.
 
I think a lot of people have really made up their mind. When we suggest something that will work, but is against what they have learned from their flex magazine or huge guy at the gym, they simply won't take the advice and head over to bb.com instead.
 
bb.com!!! I had an altrernative!!! hahahaha

I remember one guy that told me he would run and then be back. I have stayed and got in better and better shape while I wait for him.

who cares about the passing parade, it is always passing...

peace/out
 
I think it's probably a lot of things...

a.) some of them are still thinking about it, but not yet serious (the "contemplation" stage).
b.) very well could be scared off by some responses
c.) responses may not be what they want to hear and/or aren't in line w/ what Oprah said so they leave to find a website that will coddle them

I've posted a question on new sites before, then just straight up forgot about it - so that's a possibility too.
 
deschain said:
I think it's probably a lot of things...

a.) some of them are still thinking about it, but not yet serious (the "contemplation" stage).
b.) very well could be scared off by some responses
c.) responses may not be what they want to hear and/or aren't in line w/ what Oprah said so they leave to find a website that will coddle them

I've posted a question on new sites before, then just straight up forgot about it - so that's a possibility too.
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If you have posted on new sites and then forgot about it, how can you tell us about it now?
LIAR!! :p
 
... and here's another twist to this...

I posted on a cycling forum why anyone would be willing to sacrifice muscle in their torso and arms for the sake of lower weight for bike racing. I should have qualified this with regards to pro racers or wannabes who make their living racing, which is about 1/10000000000000 of all bike riders and only about 1/10000 of bike racers. I posted that a true athlete does not have arms that can clean out a vacuum cleaner or have a bench press less than a middle school girl. I was so beaten up, including some suggestions of my sexual orientation, that I left, never to go again. I was not intimidated, but nor do I want to hang around in cyberspace with people that either strongly disagree with me or, at the least, did not come to my defense and agree with me.

By the way, that incident really soured me on bicycle racers as a group. Yeah, I hang out with some and race with others, but deep down, I am more comfortable with triathletes who are more well-rounded and not as torso-scrawny.

That is why I waste my time here ... cause I love you guys.
 
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Sometimes the have a very specific question they want answered, and once it's answered, they choose to do their own thing. No harm in that.
 
Maybe some people post on a spur of the moment whim then forget about what they were doing and then never bother coming back. Or just get busy etc. Some people might just be forum readers and not posters.
 
I think a lot of people who ARE successful can have a bunch of "false starts" before they hit that committed stride. So if you count the people who don't stick with it at all, and the people who haven't YET stuck with it...that covers a lot!

Truth is, this is just a microcosm of real life.

Think about all the friends & family members you have in your life, excluding the people you've met during your exercise (at the gym, on teams, in running groups, and so forth). How many of these people tell you that they want to lose weight, gain muscle, or otherwise improved your muscle? How many of these people ask you how you managed to do what you've done? Then how many of these people actually want to listen and do anything about it when you start to explain the work involved beyond some fad or easy recipe for success???

Why would this site be any different?
 
Hit and run posters, as you put it, doesn't bother me at all...I mean, if all they're gonna do is post once than how could that bother you? It's people that post repeated meaningless posts just to get their post count up because having alot of posts somehow translates to you knowing something.
 
Because they aren't ready to make a commitment. I went on several of these before i finally had the motivation to stick to it. So I'd like to think somewhere in the future they will make the right choice.
 
stingo said:
January's around the corner... I'm guessing we'll see this spike with the resolutioneers.
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Oh! Don't remind me. I can't stand January in the gym. You get the resolution folks crowding up the place, and it doesn't taper off for a few weeks. Plus, you get that "spring break is coming!" younger crowd too.

As it is, January is around when a lot of the serious endurance athletes need to move more indoors, too, because it gets too cold to safely train so much outside. I have no problem with this group. It's just the combination makes it difficult to find breathing space or even a treadmill for a 10 minute warm-up.
 
sig said:
As it is, January is around when a lot of the serious endurance athletes need to move more indoors, too, because it gets too cold to safely train so much outside. I have no problem with this group. It's just the combination makes it difficult to find breathing space or even a treadmill for a 10 minute warm-up.
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No worries, Sig. It doesn't get too cold here in Florida in January for Flyinfree and I to train outdoors;)
 
Streamline said:
Hit and run posters, as you put it, doesn't bother me at all...I mean, if all they're gonna do is post once than how could that bother you? It's people that post repeated meaningless posts just to get their post count up because having alot of posts somehow translates to you knowing something.
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It doesn't "bother me" as you put it. I was only making a remark also considering when I hit the gym I was probably the most flabby of the newbies but I don't see the others we started off with.

Wouldn't you as an individual not be concerned if the non-spam single-posters was high? Couldn't it mean that some of them have given up? Or some had misconceptions from a strongman magazine or something?
 
tribal said:
Wouldn't you as an individual not be concerned if the non-spam single-posters was high? Couldn't it mean that some of them have given up? Or some had misconceptions from a strongman magazine or something?
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Nope. If they want to give up, that's up to them. Me and the other forum members can help motivate people but that can only go so far. If they want to get their info from "how to get big" monthly magazine, let them be. If they want to utilize some of the top information delivered on here than, yes, that's obviously the better option. They can also believe some of the dribble typed on here as well. At the end of the day it has absolutely no affect on me personally.
 
Karky said:
If you have posted on new sites and then forgot about it, how can you tell us about it now?
LIAR!! :p
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you little smartass. :jump1: I meant that I would forget about it, or forget which site it was, or forget to check it b/c I wasn't a regular on that site......goober.

Someone made a good point about it being like real life. I've had tons of conversations with various people about how they want to "get in shape" - only to see them continue on, just as they were.

January does suck at the gym. I try to remain positive though, and think that at least some of them will stick with it.
 
deschain said:
you little smartass. :jump1: I meant that I would forget about it, or forget which site it was, or forget to check it b/c I wasn't a regular on that site......goober.

Someone made a good point about it being like real life. I've had tons of conversations with various people about how they want to "get in shape" - only to see them continue on, just as they were.

January does suck at the gym. I try to remain positive though, and think that at least some of them will stick with it.
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Jan at the gym-- oh good grief for reals. At least most of them will be goine by the 15th... LOL!

and post count does not reflect intelligence-- in my case it reflects the absence of television- and that, in today's world, is lack of intelivance--- ahahahahahaha

but I'm super smaht!! just checkl some of mty p[ostys jejejejejeje

Dischaine rules the roost!
FF
 
Streamline said:
Nope. If they want to give up, that's up to them. Me and the other forum members can help motivate people but that can only go so far. If they want to get their info from "how to get big" monthly magazine, let them be. If they want to utilize some of the top information delivered on here than, yes, that's obviously the better option. They can also believe some of the dribble typed on here as well. At the end of the day it has absolutely no affect on me personally.
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My sentiments exactly.

And with regards the January 'going to get fit for my new years resolution' gym goers, I will be even more happy then that I now work out at home :)
 
Gyms are going to do a roaring business in January and the usual truckload of newbies will hit the gym only to disappear before long. At least it will make a change from the boring faces I see everyday - I might even know one or two of the new faces.
 
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