Korrie
Moderator
Welcome Newbies! Tips to Help!
First of all, I would like to welcome you to the WLF Family! You will find a lot of supportive people who will help all they can!
There are lots of moderators that will help with anything you need!
Feel free to start a diary/journal; it helps you to keep track of your eating habits and excersizes, and gives us a place to help support you!!
You CAN and WILL do this, just stick with us and you will have all the support you need!
_____________________
FORUM RULES
While the forum is very liberal in the fact that you are entitled to your own free speech and your own opinions and thoughts, we do have a few ground rules.
1. Be respectful. While we don’t mind the occasional use of profanity, we aren’t interested in porn, discriminatory remarks or content. As hard as it is given the veil of anonymity the Internet provides, try your best to act as you would in any other public setting.
2. Spam is strictly forbidden. Spam is the obvious, leaving links to any website that is selling a product. Spamming is also left up to moderators discretion. For example, if a newcomer joins and every post asks people to check out their blog, they will too be banned for spamming. "Email me for info" and "message me for info" falls into the spam catagory. Spamming also includes leaving links in your signatures. RULES ABOUT SPAMMING IS LISTED IN THE NEXT POST....
3. Posting your email address is prohibited. We have a message system and you can communicate with other members through that.
4. Posts which are deemed as 'research' or data gathering for diet plans, books, or the like will be removed and subject to infractions. The site is for supporting and aiding others, not for market research.
5. User names should not be the name of a product or a service. We consider this to be a form of spam. Postings will be deleted and the user banned to prevent further posting. This forum is not a place to improve brand awareness.
6. Posting copy / pasted articles plus a link is not allowed and the user will be banned.
All members should report an abuse of the above guidelines to the moderation team so things can be handled appropriately.
We hope that this is not too much to ask.
Thanks for respecting our desires. If you have any questions or concerns pertaining to forum policy, please feel free to contact a moderator.
"Infractions" are the forums way of "punishment" if you will, for breaking a rule, such as spamming. Traditionally, you are given a warning first, then an actual infraction is given which bans activity from the forum for a certain number of days, depending on the 'crime'
REPORTING POSTS (this notifies the mods that spam was posted or anything that we need to know about)
At the top of a post, in the blue bar containing the date and time, there is a white triangle w/ a black line in it, this is the button you click on to notify the mods that there is a post we need to look at.
Here are some Frequently Asked Questions:
HOW DO I START A DIARY?
As with starting any new thread, locate the section most appropriate, in this case, the Diary section. Click on the "diary" link. Then at the top of the page you will see an orange box "New Thread" Click on that. A new thread page will pop up. Name your diary and post. Then click on "submit thread".
WHAT ARE CHALLENGES AND HOW DO I JOIN?
Challenges vary from challenge to challenge. You will have to read the challenge to find out EXACTLY what it entails.
BUT for the most part, in challenges we group a bunch of people together into teams. (These groups are formed from the sign up section) and we try to loose as much weight as possible. The team that looses the biggest percentage of weight, wins!
To find challenges and join, you will need to go to the "club challenges" section of the forum. When a challenge is starting there will be a "sign up thread" it will tell the name/purpose of the challenge, the dates the challenge will be running, and any other info (for example, some challenges are more weight loss related, some are excersize realted). You may then choose to sign up by just posting "I'M IN!" or "sign me up" whatever sounds good to you. Then you must wait till the leader of the challenge puts you in a team and the challenge actually starts.
Sometimes team threads are formed and the point of those are to talk to your other team members and help to encourage them. Share your victories and help out anyone who needs the support!!
Once a challenge has started it is difficult to join sometimes. You may need to wait till another challenge starts (which is often).
First of all, I would like to welcome you to the WLF Family! You will find a lot of supportive people who will help all they can!
There are lots of moderators that will help with anything you need!
Feel free to start a diary/journal; it helps you to keep track of your eating habits and excersizes, and gives us a place to help support you!!
You CAN and WILL do this, just stick with us and you will have all the support you need!
_____________________
FORUM RULES
While the forum is very liberal in the fact that you are entitled to your own free speech and your own opinions and thoughts, we do have a few ground rules.
1. Be respectful. While we don’t mind the occasional use of profanity, we aren’t interested in porn, discriminatory remarks or content. As hard as it is given the veil of anonymity the Internet provides, try your best to act as you would in any other public setting.
2. Spam is strictly forbidden. Spam is the obvious, leaving links to any website that is selling a product. Spamming is also left up to moderators discretion. For example, if a newcomer joins and every post asks people to check out their blog, they will too be banned for spamming. "Email me for info" and "message me for info" falls into the spam catagory. Spamming also includes leaving links in your signatures. RULES ABOUT SPAMMING IS LISTED IN THE NEXT POST....
3. Posting your email address is prohibited. We have a message system and you can communicate with other members through that.
4. Posts which are deemed as 'research' or data gathering for diet plans, books, or the like will be removed and subject to infractions. The site is for supporting and aiding others, not for market research.
5. User names should not be the name of a product or a service. We consider this to be a form of spam. Postings will be deleted and the user banned to prevent further posting. This forum is not a place to improve brand awareness.
6. Posting copy / pasted articles plus a link is not allowed and the user will be banned.
All members should report an abuse of the above guidelines to the moderation team so things can be handled appropriately.
We hope that this is not too much to ask.
Thanks for respecting our desires. If you have any questions or concerns pertaining to forum policy, please feel free to contact a moderator.
"Infractions" are the forums way of "punishment" if you will, for breaking a rule, such as spamming. Traditionally, you are given a warning first, then an actual infraction is given which bans activity from the forum for a certain number of days, depending on the 'crime'
REPORTING POSTS (this notifies the mods that spam was posted or anything that we need to know about)
At the top of a post, in the blue bar containing the date and time, there is a white triangle w/ a black line in it, this is the button you click on to notify the mods that there is a post we need to look at.
Here are some Frequently Asked Questions:
HOW DO I START A DIARY?
As with starting any new thread, locate the section most appropriate, in this case, the Diary section. Click on the "diary" link. Then at the top of the page you will see an orange box "New Thread" Click on that. A new thread page will pop up. Name your diary and post. Then click on "submit thread".
WHAT ARE CHALLENGES AND HOW DO I JOIN?
Challenges vary from challenge to challenge. You will have to read the challenge to find out EXACTLY what it entails.
BUT for the most part, in challenges we group a bunch of people together into teams. (These groups are formed from the sign up section) and we try to loose as much weight as possible. The team that looses the biggest percentage of weight, wins!
To find challenges and join, you will need to go to the "club challenges" section of the forum. When a challenge is starting there will be a "sign up thread" it will tell the name/purpose of the challenge, the dates the challenge will be running, and any other info (for example, some challenges are more weight loss related, some are excersize realted). You may then choose to sign up by just posting "I'M IN!" or "sign me up" whatever sounds good to you. Then you must wait till the leader of the challenge puts you in a team and the challenge actually starts.
Sometimes team threads are formed and the point of those are to talk to your other team members and help to encourage them. Share your victories and help out anyone who needs the support!!
Once a challenge has started it is difficult to join sometimes. You may need to wait till another challenge starts (which is often).
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