OK, I don't like to get into Politics, but I am so MAD, I could just SIPT!!!

OK, you know her to be an 'awesome lady' but how am I supposed to know that when all I've seen her, or anyone like her, do is post their blog links? I've only been here about 8 months, a realtive newbie to all this, so I can only judge her validity by what I've read from her....which is pretty much zilch.  

Our definitions of 'taking part' must be vastly different. To me, posting nothing but a link to your person blog is not taking part. After spending these past 8 months reading OH, several times a day, I've learned who to listen to, who not to listen to, and who to pass over entirely by what they've posted here on a daily/weekly or even occasional basis. It's how we get to know people, how we learn to trust their opinions...or not.

Please....I'm not picking on Ginger, as my Grandmother would say I'm sure she's a lovely person, this opinion of mine is aimed at her as well as anyone else who only pops on here to post links to their blog.

No apologies necessary! We'll just disagree as to what taking part really means.

Ok, let me try to explain this better.  There are members that are here and take part on the TMB because at some point I dropped by and shared a blog post on boards that I'm not on every day. They liked the information and "switched" to the TMB forever.  For instance when someone has a great breakthrough idea and I get kind of high on the information I want to blog about it and share it with others in hopes of helping others. I have felt like it is less offensive to just post a link and see if anyone relates than to write this long post as a newbie.  It also might be my way of wanting to start to take part in a board and see how I'm welcomed.  I spoke with Ginger for a very long time on the phone one day and we learned so much from each other because we both had some information that we had from outside sources and that's how we grow.  If you choose not to read her blog that's great but it just seems to me that we can learn from everyone and if you're not wanting to read it that's great too.  Ginger gives countless hours to others volunteering and working in the bariatric field and she wasn't asking for money, she was just starting a conversation about something that she felt was unkind to someone over their weight.  I just don't understand why we can't welcome everyone and sometimes lurkers don't post for months.  Again, if you don't want to read it, that's fine but it might have been someone that was invited.  It's hard being new somewhere and you don't always know how best to try to take part.  I feel so badly about where this all went because I guess there's no good solution.

No Y, you explained it very well. I'm just saying that someone who is not a regular poster to any board...whether you suggested she come here, she's lurked around, or whatever... doesn't inspire any confidence in me to go elsewhere. I'm not saying I don't follow links to other websites or blogs. I do and I've learned some very valuable information that way but those links were followed because the person posting them had the credability, with me, to always provide valuable information. I'm saying I need to have confidence in a regular poster that the info is going to be important to my health and well being. It turns out the blog entry Ginger posted was not something I would have ever read, I didn't miss anything.

You mentioned earlier about how easy it is to post a link to a blog instead of retyping it all. The keystroked needed to cut and paste an article in a post is about the same as it take to post a link.

Let's just agree to disagree about this, OK? Maybe we'll meet in Dallas ....

Well you scared me for a minute because I thought it really was about politics but it's really more about human decency.  I'm not going to allow the people to upset me that have nothing better to do than to complain about someone's size when we should be the first to know that a person's size doesn't keep you from doing a wonderful job.  Bless her heart.
hugs, Y

Hi Yvonne,

I didn't mean to scare you, (LOL).  But when I heard about it on the radio this morning, it just made me so mad.  I know there are so many people who are discrimated against for being overweight I was one of them (and I don't think she really is...she is just an average size women).  It really breaks my heart sometime.

I hope you are having a great week!  Wish you were coming to ATL for our OH conference in November. 

Call me when you get a chance.

Hugs,

Ginger