After considering the weight poll on Tell dance.net and people's comments on this issue, I've decided that height and weight posts with the author's specific measurements are no longer useful or allowed anywhere on dance.net.



General discussions about height/weight without mentioning your specific measurements are allowed only on the Health & Nutrition forum. No more of the "am I too fat/overweight/too tall/too short" posts, please. I'm also going to work on adding a Height/Weight FAQ to the site.



For pre-existing comments of this sort, I and the moderators will just lock them down. For new ones, we'll simply remove these comments and send a PM to the user regarding this policy. In the end, I think this will promote health over fad/dieting and still allow useful discussions on weight/height on the Health & Nutritiion forum.



Thanks for understanding!

so many people have been going on about how they want these kind of posts to stop - so it's good to see you're finally doing something about it! thanks linh

Yeah thanks alot they were filling up the health and nutrition board and i can wait too see the FAQ of height and weight board cause i think it is a good idea!

Thank you, it was getting reallyannoying that every time I wouldgo and checkthe health forum I wouldlookfor real information, and all I would findis a lot of posts by insecurepeople asking about their weight.It's nice something was finally done!
Christine

Thanx! I totally agree 100%!! Good work on keeping this a place where everyone wants to be!

Hooray!
I realize that dancers seem to run a higher risk of eating disorders, so am glad the nutrition board is there. With so many weight threads it was frustrating not to be able to post my "toned and healthy" lecture on every one and the people who are really insecure about such things wouldn't believe it anyway.
I had also seen one disturbing thread with a photo of an emaciated model extolling her beauty - I hope things like that are going the way of the height/weight posts also.

Thankyou! I don't know if you said people who create a post can lock them themselves or whatnot but the fatpoll was driving me nuts! So thankx for locking it

Though sometimes these posts are annoying, since they do consume much of the health/nutrition board, I think that they are an important issue to young women, and dancers. Posts like "am I too fat?" seem to be somewhat of a last resort to some to get a little positive encouragement or a little self esteem that could be helpful in the longrun. If someone is trying to get advice on healthy weight loss, or want to know if its necissary, I dont see much of a problem with them asking. Giving ones measurments doesn't really say much about them, but sometimes is relevant. I dont fully understand why you are no longer allowing it, but maybe I'm just misunderstanding the concept.
Happy Dancing,
Abbie

I am sooo glad you guys are resricting weight comments because people are always saying things like "you have to be anorexic to do this or that"... or that "I'm too fat" and so on. When in fact anyone who wants to dance can. And if you were anorexic, you probably would be too weak to dance. Thanks guys!!!

I don't seem to get the point either, sorry.