LetsRunFaster.com? What do you think

[quote] Some of you might be thinking, "Are you trying to mock letsrun.com"? To answer that, no. It is harder then you think to find a running related domain name that hasn't been taken already. [quote/]

The moderators rightfully removed this thread but I wanted to put it back to make a point (plus I had started to write my reply only to have the thread get pulled).

First of all, imitation is the highest form of flattery but at least get an original name. It might give you more credibility even forgetting the possible legal ramifications.

But the main reason I'm writing is that the point of this forums is not for shameless self promotion. I figured I'd try a new tactic here, public humiliation, to prevent it from happening in the future.

So in case you couldn't tell "wondering browser" and "not bad" are the same person. I assume it is the same person who started the site letsrunfaster (the same person who did jeffroi running I believe which I actually liked. That site says it is going away, but apparently that is not the case. Apparently they just decided to copy our name).

If you have something of interest that our viewers may want to see, please just email us. I'm not sure what it is about web 2.0 but it seems like that every site that has started up recently comes on here and constantly promotes their website, podcasts, and videos. That is not the purpose of letsrun but maybe it is just a testament to our popularity.

I've seen people come on here link to an interview they did then in another post pretending to be another person basically mock the response of the person they interviewed. I've tried removing posts (most common) and the more direct approach of emailing people when I catch them (to one one occasion have them deny it to me. Then I gave them a list of every post they had made from their computer and they were a bit embarrassed I assume).

So I'm using this post to remind people to not use the boards to shamelessly self promote your product. The first post got the news out. You don't now need to go on and pretend to be someone else who likes the site. But the best course of action is to just email us.

If we find it interesting and newsworthy we'll link to it. (although a new website like letsrunfaster.com probably wouldn't get a link). We have a pretty liberal linking policy here.

Or if you're going to do a job of self promotion at least do a better job of it. It's almost unfair to call you out the first time you did it as others have done it many many times to no public rebuke, but it was just so obvious.

This is a super common tactic for someone to just come on put a link to a video somewhere else:

http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=2386668

(and of course the post is by the guy who started this thread)

Generally it is not too common for someone to just write one sentence and link to an offsite video (unless you are trying to pimp your site and then it seems a very common occurrence).

Well, the front page looks better. You can't beat the letsrun forum format though.

Wejo 2, Letsrunfaster = 0

wondering browser wrote:

I stumbled upon what looks to be a new running website. It actually seems pretty legit. Its got a bunch of youtube videos that are easy to shift through. The only slight connection with this website it seems to have is their forum is divided into the basic letsrun topics. What do you think?

http://www.letsrunfaster.com

You didn't "stumble on it", it's obviously your site. This sort of silly underhanded dishonesty is so transparent and dumb. Why not just come on here and say, "hey, I created this site; I'd like it if people checked it out" Is that so hard?

obviously the creator of letsrunfaster.com is a total douche. check this out:

http://www.letsrunfaster.com/2008/02/the-many-designs-of-letsrunfas.html

he tells you about all the site designs he was considering copying. and obviously we know where he got the "inspiration" for his domain name.

or check this out. he asks you to promote his crappy website for him:

http://www.letsrunfaster.com/contribute.html

the site itself is pretty lame too. the design is hideously ugly (couldn't have picked a worse color scheme), the content consist of nothing more than a bunch of hotlinked youtube videos, and clearly it does not include the "world famous" message board of the REAL letsrun.com (and it NEVER will either).

give it up bro.

I bet wejo has a faster 10k pr, and everyone knows the only thing that matters about a running website is how faster the creator is over the 10k distance.

Seriously though, who is this guy? Does he even list a name on the site?

IIRC there was something yesterday or the day before about a letsrunfaster. I thought it was a joke, just like this guy.

and the f***ing idiot has fixed it now, so obviously he was checking out the responses on this thread. What an absolute tool.

Apperently this guy is pimping his site all over the web.

This site is so unoriginal. The domain name and forum topics are stolen from letsrun, the videos are stolen from youtube, and the "tag cloud" idea is stolen from flotrack. Is there anything good about this site?

check this out folks wrote:

Apperently this guy is pimping his site all over the web.

Yeah, he's been doing it at tnfnorth too. Since he used to pimp his old site there, he had to pretend he had nothing to do with the new site:

"So I used to come here and post about my site, but I have actually had to shut it down due to the time commitment. But I did stumble upon a new running website..."

While I'm all in favour of good websites devoted to running, lying and misrepresenting yourself to hype the website is very lame -- and doing it so poorly that you're easily found out is just stupid.

So I guess it's going to be alright for me to pimp my website in this thread too, racingsnailclub.com?

I just stumbled up on it, while I was making it.

Ok saying he stole videos from youtube is a bit much. Most video sites, including running ones, embed videos from other sites.

The idea of tags is universal to the internet so I wouldn't say he stole that idea either unless you want to say Flotrack stole that too.

But the name is clearly a knockoff from letsrun and we've asked him to switch it.

You have absolutely *no* legal grounds to make him change the name at all. I am 100% certain about that. Even if letsrun was registered let's run faster is a legitimate turn of phrase. He has paid the registrar and owns the name. Get over it.

And to people who are angry about the nature of the website; it's no different to any other running website out there. Coming out with "stealing video" comments shows a high degree of ignorance synonymous with your average letsrun zealot; youtube WANT you to embed their videos- the code is next to every video.

Joffroi is actually quite a talented web designer. Hate him for daring to use a name too close to letsrun if you like, but don't knock the site. It takes a lot of hard work and expertise to get a site looking that good.

winnie you missed the entire point, this website is not for promotions, the guy came on here and tried to promote his own website by pretending to be somebody else...

that is what people and in particular wejo have a problem with

winnie wrote:

You have absolutely *no* legal grounds to make him change the name at all. I am 100% certain about that.

No shit. But he has legal grounds to ASK him to change the name (like he said he did). I am 100% certain about that.

Thanks for reminding me about racingsnail, that really is a great site but I haven't been there in awhile.

Joffroi and I talked this out and he agreed to change the name. I think the new name is better for his site anyway. I'll have more once he gets it switch over.