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I know that someone on here was working on some FAQs of the WPB a while back, but she was hosting it on a different site.
I was wondering if now that we have the ability to post stickies that will actually stay permanently if we wanted to have FAQs posted?
The only issue I could think of is that we wouldn't get any posters any more! lol. Although, I think most ladies probably wouldn't read the FAQs, they would just post, then we would all say "read the FAQs!"
Just thought I would throw the question out there. I tried to add a poll...not sure if it worked or not.
I was wondering if now that we have the ability to post stickies that will actually stay permanently if we wanted to have FAQs posted?
The only issue I could think of is that we wouldn't get any posters any more! lol. Although, I think most ladies probably wouldn't read the FAQs, they would just post, then we would all say "read the FAQs!"
Just thought I would throw the question out there. I tried to add a poll...not sure if it worked or not.
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Re: FAQs?
The big thing though is that I want to make sure brides feel comfortable posting here and not marginalized as if their issue doesn't matter.
And I think it also sends the message of "We know everything and this is always the way it should be." I think that's just going to further the stereotype that some people have about this board having "cliques." I think a lot of people who come here and don't get the support (a.k.a. validation) that they're looking for convince themselves that it's simply a group of girls ganging up on them, rather than a majority of people who feel that their behavior is wrong.
If every board had an FAQ sticky post, you'd probably have something on many of the club and local boards saying, "Of course it's O.K. to kick out a bridesmaid if she's not helping enough, because it's YOUR DAY! *hugs*"
My problem with a FAQ is the same one I had in the first place: nobody ever reads them anyway.
I also do believe, even though we dispense the same verbatum advice day in and day out to every girl saying she's "spashul" (Which gets annoying), that people should get a fair shot to get real advice from us. I mean, honestly, we DO give varying advice to different problems. It just seems like we're all always saying the same thing because the problem that we see 7 million times a day is "Can I boot a member of my WP?".
Now if there was a way we could ban people from asking that particular question ... lol. Who am I kidding, the board WOULD die then.
If you fire a WP member, you're against America.
"Meg cracks me up on the regular. Now she gets to do it in two different forums. Yay!!" ~mkrupar
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1- Your WP should be those who are emotionally closest to you, not necessarily the best party throwers or the ones that live the closest.
2- Try not to ruin relationships over what may happen on one day in your life, albeit an important day.
3- Always treat your friends as friends and not slaves.
4- No one will be as excited about your wedding as you and your FI, so try to take into account what else is going on in your WP's life OTHER than your wedding.
things like that.. words of wisdom more than absolutes..
As I said above, yes, we want people to lurk first and see what's out there however I also don't want anyone to think, "Man, those people on Wedding Party are so mean and all I asked was a simple question about bridesmaid dresses! So I made a mistake! Don't bite my head off!"
This is coming from someone who made a small error at work today and it turned into something that really upset our IT guy. :-(
I feel so thankful for having personal help and feel really casted aside when I'm told to just read other posts it takes away from that. I've read all the Q & A's, I go to the boards for that personal touch. Why take that away?
And I still stand by what I said earlier: if people stopped asking "Can I boot a BM?" question, we would have nearly as much drama on this board ... but the board would probably die.
If you fire a WP member, you're against America.
"Meg cracks me up on the regular. Now she gets to do it in two different forums. Yay!!" ~mkrupar