Wednesday, 7 January 2009

Fat acceptance - no issue

I recently received anonymous feedback that I wanted to share with you and ask your advice. Since their email address was left blank, I am unable to respond to them which is unfortunate. Maybe they assumed I would be angry and send a rude message. Here's what they wrote:

Visitor name: Happy Fat Girl, MA

Summary: FAT IS BEAUTIFUL

Comment:  I am a sociologist researching the stigma of obesity and a healthy beautiful fat woman. I resent you diet ad on my myspace, which encourages size acceptance. Just wanted to waste a click because that is how they charge!!! "Fat can be beautiful. Intolerance is ALWAYS ugly."

It is strange since I am not advertising on myspace so that would have been one thing I would have liked to follow up on, and of course, I'm not responsible for a publisher's poor ad placement technology which in this case has been proven difficient. But regardless of any of that, I was hoping to get a view from anyone who advocates fat acceptance whether this site is insulting or whether you believe this person had become upset only by the inappropriate ad placement. I ask because I care. comotivate is designed to help people not upset them so if there is something I can do to stay true to my vision, then I'll do it.

For the record, I have no issue with fat and applaud fat acceptance advocates for making their voice heard when society makes that difficult.  

Posted by comotivate at 3:12 AM in tell us all the bad things
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Sunday, 21 December 2008

My new year's blogging resolution

I vow never to write an article that headlines: "7 ways to...." or "5 steps to...." or "19 reasons why...."

Heavens above! My goodness me! Fuck me sideways, if I have to read one more 'by the book' headline from some useless hack that calls themselves an expert, I'll explode in a shower of shhh...ame.

The self-development community seems to be the worst offender. I know, I know all the advice says that's how you're supposed to write a captivating headline, but gimme a break! When the whole world is doing it, it's time to find something new and...get this....original!!!!

Rant over....I'll get back to my crunches.

Posted by comotivate at 9:36 AM in tell us all the bad things
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Monday, 24 November 2008

"Server Error 500" messages

There seems to be a lot of these errors on the site at the moment - very frustrating. Please report them as you encounter them. We're on the case and hope to have it fixed soon.

We're very sorry for the problems. Thanks for your patience and understanding.

Hope your goals are progressing and you're able to find good support amongst your teams.

Posted by comotivate at 10:04 AM in tell us all the bad things
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Thursday, 13 November 2008

Current bugs

Just to acknowledge and apologise for a few bugs on the site at the moment:

- match insights aren't being displayed

- some buddy-ups are being errorred

- some emails are being sent multiple times

We're attempting fixes as fast as possible. Thank you for your patience.

Please report any frustrations to fixer<at>comotivate.com

Posted by comotivate at 10:41 AM in tell us all the bad things
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Monday, 8 September 2008

Caught between a rock and a hard place

It's been very difficult watching visitor numbers dwindle over the last month or so as I've put all marketing on hold. I wasn't happy sending traffic to the site when there were some important bugs getting fixed. Well those are almost done now and I'm gearing up for a proper launch in October.

There are some great new features coming in this new release but some knock-outs in the release after that. I've been so busy getting things organised and I'm really excited about comotivate. The second phase of enhancements cannot yet be discussed publicly but they should include being able to rank your team's activity and set up charity donations in support of your goal.

I will personally write to all those currently subscribed to let them know what's going on and apologise for the lack of activity on the site of late.

Posted by comotivate at 3:09 AM in tell us all the bad things
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