Fitconnect Announcement on some Issues
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on 4/16/2009
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This post is in response to some blogs and direct emails I’ve received regarding several matters. Before responding, I’d like to first off thank everyone for their participation on Fitconnect – we appreciate the advice/opinions you’ve shared with the community.
The main concerns I’ve noticed and will discuss below are:
1. Re-posting other site’s content
2. Negative comments toward other Fitconnect members
3. The Point System
4. Progress of the Exercises and Workout Tracking sections
5. When I’ll answer everyone’s messages
Re-posting other blog’s content:
Following copyright law, it’s required to receive permission and cite sources when taking content from another site. Since some members have complained about users copying content and using it to gain more points, why don’t we have a rule of etiquette that all users keep copying to a minimum? For the most part, let’s keep everything as original content, but if you do find an article you’d really like to share with the group, then you may do that occasionally (and cite sources). In the future, we may add a link sharing system similar to digg that will allow you to share lots of articles. Thoughts on this new rule?
Negative Comments toward other Fitconnect Members:
This involves a large grey area since Health and Fitness is a very opinionated set of topics. The science of it all is pretty factual but people often have different physical fitness goals and different philosophies on how to achieve them. Strong opinions often lead to debates, which then leads to arguments or rude comments. Our goal is to keep the community really “chill” and positive, but I don’t want to totally ban debating. I think differing opinions discussed on comment boards can often help people to see both sides and learn from them. I think Fitconnect is a lot friendlier of a community than you’ll find at places like Craigslist (the people on there get evil). However, we have received some complaints about overly rude comments.
So can we all try to do our best to keep comments opinionated, but not personal? If you make a sarcastic comment and don’t mean to be rude, throw the person a message and tell them you’re just kidding or something. Let’s keep it as positve as we can.
The Point System:
We will eventually be modifying the point system to be more focused on how popular and well received your content is, rather than simply how much you post. Also, for those newcomers, we will be adding a point bracket that only tracks points earned in the past month. This way you can still top the charts if you just joined, while we’ll still know who’s been around and active the longest.
Progress on Exercises and Workout Tracking:
We’ve made about a million modifications on our plans for Exercises and Workouts. I have no control over when and how the Exercises/Tracking sections are setup, as Troy is the sole person in charge of when features are added to the site. For those who came here after watching The Money and The Power, they edited out parts where I talked about how the company is an equal partnership. I truly believe the Exercises and Routines sections will be up soon but I know you regulars have been hearing that for months. Some positive news is that I’ve checked his progress charts and he’s checked off a lot of tasks for the Exercises section.
How will these 3 new sections work?
I’ll be posting a video explaining it soon, but here’s a quick breakdown. Exercises will be a database of basic exercises provided by us, and users will be allowed to submit their own exercises as well. The Routines section will allow you to put different exercise combinations (from the exercise section) into a workout routine. The tracking section, will then allow you to track individual exercises, whole routines, as well as many other things (calories, weight, supplement use, anything you want).
The features will roll out in pieces, so please don’t assume that something is our finished product when you see it for the first time.
When will I answer everyone’s messages?
Since the show it’s been very hard to respond to all of the messages but I’m doing my best to catch up and respond. Eventually I hope to respond to all blog posts and comments too (hopefully). If I don’t respond to a message, I might have missed it or didn’t get to it yet, or most likely read it and forgot to respond because I have a short attention span. Feel free to keep messaging, I’ll do my best to respond.
Please feel free to comment below as well as discuss among each other how you feel about this new plan.
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