Welcome to The Biggest Loser Club Community and discussion forums, your place to talk about a range of topics that deal with weight loss and achieving a healthy lifestyle.
Because we want all our community to feel comfortable and confident in using the forums, we’d like to provide some guidelines that, if followed, should assist all members to participate and enjoy. We’ve set these out as ‘What to do’ items and ‘What not to do’ items. We ask you to read these and embrace them.
If you have any outstanding concerns, please contact the moderator.
What to do
We believe you are a vital, valuable member and we know you can help build a great community here if you follow these general principles:
1. Accept difference
Remember that in a forum we don’t have visual cues and can’t hear people’s tones of voice. So, respect others’ opinions and try to use moderate language that can’t easily be taken the wrong way. Also try to include an emoticon like a smiley face to show the spirit of your intention.
2. Keep it positive
Bring patience, tolerance and a supportive, helpful attitude as you enter the forum. We're all here for a common goal so keep that in mind. If you want to talk about the contestants on the show, remember that they have feelings too.
3. Be warm and encouraging
Giving and receiving tips helps form a strong community. Thank others for offering ideas and suggestions that you’ve found useful. Try to avoid ‘island posts’ (i.e. one post, no replies) by responding quickly even if it’s to say you don’t know the answer.
4. Stay on the topic
Try not to wander too often into issues that are not relevant to the topic of weight-loss.
5. Protect your privacy
Despite our efforts to make the community a safe place, it’s still wise to be prudent when it comes to privacy. NEVER EVER post your full name, address, email address, phone number, credit card, or other methods of contacting or identifying you on the forums. If you want to exchange more personal details with a member, do so via a private message.
6. Defend your community
These forums are your forums so if you see something that’s not in the spirit of things, say something or contact the moderator.
What not to do
1. Don’t be nasty
No verbal abuse, bullying or put-downs. If you make the forums an unpleasant place, we will take steps to remove you.
2. No swearing, please
Do not include foul language and swearing in your posts. As the moderator only reads English, please do not post in another language.
3. No advertising
Do not use the forums to post ads or push products to our members. If we catch you using the forums as an advertising platform we’ll remove your posts and potentially bar you from the community.
4. Don’t be offensive
Do not seek personal information and do not offer racist, culturally intolerant, gender or ageist negative comments or sexually harassing or discriminatory comments.
5. Don’t plagiarise or infringe copyright
If you quote from a book or source please reference the quote to that source or author rather than posting on the forum as if you are presenting your own work. Do not infringe copyright. If you offer an image that is not yours please ensure you attribute the image source correctly and have sought permission to use said image.
We will enforce these guidelines
We trust that as adults you will help us make The Biggest Loser Club forums one of the key features of excellence on the site. Because we do have so many members keen to participate and because we know that from time to time an individual may not appear to understand the guidelines, we reserve the right to remove posts or individuals from the forum if we consider they are working against the community spirit or overtly breaking the ‘rules’.