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When you first used the forum, how did you go about it?

When you first started reading this forum, whether before or after joining, how did you navigate?

  • Do a forum search?

    Votes: 3 9.7%

  • Look for “your type” of diabetes?

    Votes: 9 29.0%

  • Look for a specific thread title?

    Votes: 3 9.7%

  • Just read around?

    Votes: 27 87.1%

  • Start a thread to ask a question?

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Jump into an existing thread and ask a question?

    Votes: 3 9.7%

  • Something else. Please make a post and tell us what you did.

    Votes: 4 12.9%
  • Total voters
    31
AndBreathe

AndBreathe

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Type of diabetes
I reversed my Type 2
Treatment type
Diet only
Following on from the " Forum questions: additional forums?" discussion thread, I have created the following poll. I am hopeful this might help to identify how useful some of the sub-fora, and their titles actually are in helping us in the early days of forum usage So,......

When you first used the forum, how did you go about it? Please participate in the poll, below giving your response. You may select up to three options, if they apply.

I appreciate the list probably isn't an exhaustive list, but creating polls is an absolute nightmare, so be gentle with me. If you utilised another method of getting around, please make a post and tell us about it.

Thanks in anticipation.
 
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I first came to the forum when I was on the brink of diagnosis. I knew almost nothing about diabetes or what keywords to search for so just lurked generally for a couple of weeks.
 
anteater2012 said:
Again - who is this US you keep mentioning
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All of us. I'm an inclusive sort. :)

However, by way of some form of explanation, there is a thread discussing additional sub-fora and another discussin the future of the forum, and I suggested it would be useful data on one of those. @Administrator called my bluff and asked me to set the poll up.

No ulterior motive. No hidden agendas.
 
My there are some suspicious people here - Admin asked AndBreathe to put up some polls to ask people about how they use the forum (see the thread about Sub-forums).

I also use the green flags, then scan using New Posts to see if there are threads that interest me. When finished (or when short of time), I use "mark all". I find new posts is a good way to get an overview of what's happening and the threads that are popular.

Ooops, should have posted this on the other thread about how I use the forum - sorry :(
 
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AndBreathe said:
All of us. I'm an inclusive sort. :)

However, by way of some form of explanation, there is a thread discussing additional sub-fora and another discussin the future of the forum, and I suggested it would be useful data on one of those. @Administrator called my bluff and asked me to set the poll up.

No ulterior motive. No hidden agendas.
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Yep - there was a discussion as to whether there is a benefit to having multiple sub-forums - the opinion seemed to be divided, and @AndBreathe suggested asking abut the way people came would help determine if sub-forums are useful in finding what you're looking for.
 
My first post responded to a question asked by a member on a topic I actually knew something about.
 
The only time I ever use the forum index/sub-forums now is if I'm making a new thread and looking for the right place to put it.

I think when I first joined I used to browse the various forums - I was lurking and reading to get a feel for the place before making my first post which I seem to recall was a reply to another member's thread about diet.
 
@AndBreathe

thank you for the explanation ss to why you the poll was created, if this had been mentioned in to op I would not have posted. Not everyone has time to read/follow all the threads.

For those of you saying I am being "awkward" and "suspicious"- get over it. If I hadn't been either of those things about the advice I was receiving about managing my diabetes from so called HCPs I would probably still have a Hb1Ac in the hundreds and the accompanying problems. My awkwardness and being suspicious got my levels down to 41. If questionning upsets you all, perhaps being on a public open forum is not the place for you.
 
Personally I just browsed for a few days, whilst I was assuming I had T2D, and by the time I had the diagnosis from the GP I was already in a good place.

I found that a good way to approach the disease, and by the time my GP told me, I had already decided how I would fight back.

I think my first post was in the T2 Discussion forum, and I didn't post in either the newly diagnosed or greeting and introductions, and didn't get the @daisy1 post, but my then i had read it many times.
 
anteater2012 said:
@AndBreathe

thank you for the explanation ss to why you the poll was created, if this had been mentioned in to op I would not have posted. Not everyone has time to read/follow all the threads.

For those of you saying I am being "awkward" and "suspicious"- get over it. If I hadn't been either of those things about the advice I was receiving about managing my diabetes from so called HCPs I would probably still have a Hb1Ac in the hundreds and the accompanying problems. My awkwardness and being suspicious got my levels down to 41. If questionning upsets you all, perhaps being on a public open forum is not the place for you.
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It takes courage to ask questions and to challenge but unfortunately it can leave us open to attack and ridicule. I'm very sorry you received the comments that you did and I hope they will be retracted or removed by the moderators.
 
anteater2012 said:
@AndBreathe

thank you for the explanation ss to why you the poll was created, if this had been mentioned in to op I would not have posted. Not everyone has time to read/follow all the threads.

For those of you saying I am being "awkward" and "suspicious"- get over it. If I hadn't been either of those things about the advice I was receiving about managing my diabetes from so called HCPs I would probably still have a Hb1Ac in the hundreds and the accompanying problems. My awkwardness and being suspicious got my levels down to 41. If questionning upsets you all, perhaps being on a public open forum is not the place for you.
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I didn't take your comments personally. Life's too short.

I was conscious of using "us" as opposed to "I" or "me", but wanted people to participate in the poll, rather than to consider they were being manipulated or were just going to satisfy the nosy whim of some bonkers old girl from Planet Breathe.

Polls are a nightmare to create and the question/responses can often be perceived as being leading, meaning leading the respondent to make any given response for ulterior motive, so I took the "Less is more" approach. Maybe I didn't get it quite right, but I think we'll all get over it. ;) :)
 
I always looked at recent posts or new posts and answered in reply at the bottom of the posts I usually still do this
CAROL
 
I can't remember!

I think I was looking for information after I was told to get information from my consultant and my dietician at the time.
 
I went to Newly Diagnosed and asked a question. Then just reading around. Found Type 1.5 somehow, then never looked back. I'd been told suddenly I was Type 1 the day before we were going off road in Kenya. The doctor kept talking aobut DKA. I was really, really scared. I found someone who calmed me down (it was @Ian DP, bless bless bless him), and then I never looked back. Learned about Bernstein from him.
 
Like @nosher8355, I can't remember. I remember that I didn't think to introduce myself! Probably I just scanned a few threads and started talking. I was not very organised.
I'm still not organised, and am a slow learner of all the jargon and how to find stuff. If that's you too, well, you're not alone.
 
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