Talk:Bodybuilding.com

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Contents 1 Challenging {{prod}} 2 Title of Article 3 Requested move 3.1 Survey 3.2 Discussion 4 Forum section

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The article needs major cleanup and possible semi-protection from vandalism, but I'd prefer to list this on AFD as the website itself is arguably notable:

• Ranked 230 on Inc. Magazine's list of America's fastest-growing privately owned companies [1]
• Passing mentions in the New York Times [2] and Washington Post [3], [4].
• Very high Alexa and Big Boards rankings

--Muchness 13:57, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

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Can anyone elaborate on why the article isn't called Bodybuilding.com?(Booyabazooka - I'm looking your way) Just so we're clear, Bodybuilding.com is the actual name of the company, not just a URL. Thanks. Yankees76 17:03, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

I'll list this article at WP:RM now. --Muchness 17:41, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

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The following content has been added by NeoCloud99 (talk • contribs) and 70.185.230.119 (talk • contribs). I've removed it from the article because it is currently unsourced and in violation of Wikipedia's NPOV and OR guidelines.. --Muchness 05:04, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

Most of the content in the forums is very useful but it is also a well known fact to have some quirks. It has what is called a "reputation" system. Each member can gain and receive reputation points based on other members opinions of how helpful the info they provide is by contributing "positive" or "negative" points. The more points the contributing member has the more it affects the targeted members reputation. There have been a few known cases of some members attaining a very high reputation power by trying to be "cool" or "impress" other members by posting anything but information related to health and fitness. What the rep system was intended to do was to allow people to see who has a high reputation rating and based on that determine if they could provide valuable information or not, since the system does have some quirks this could lead to someone following someone's advice that really has no right to be giving out information about health and fitness. For example; going to the miscellaneous portion of the forum and posting funny pictures or poking fun at other people and making people laugh and then they contribute their reputation power to that member even though it has nothing to do with health or fitness. Some of the highest ranked members rarely if ever post anything related to health and fitness nor do they seem to participate in any fitness activities themselves, they can easily have more power than someone that devotes their life to health and fitness and that is a very helpful member to the community. Many of the members have come to in a sense "fear" upsetting other members because they have such a high reputation and could easily destroy their reputation. This is commonly thought of as people being immature or worrying way too much about "e-standards" or electronic standards. Many members believe the reputation system is broken and should be looked at being updated to make more sense. It should also be known that bodybuilding.com is probably not the only forum that has this type of system but any forum running vBulletin Version 3.5.2 likely has this system as well.

Doesn't belong in the article. Yankees76 18:48, 15 September 2006 (UTC)