Letsrun is getting worse! Why are people on the board always so mean?

look at the kind of posts rojo posts and there's your answer.

Obviously intended to stir crap up most of the time rather than to focus on the sport.

they like it like this......

runbrun wrote:

When I first came up on Letsrun I was excited to be able to ask other people for seroius advice ad so on. People who have the same passion as me : running. Now it is almost impossible to start a seroius thread without getting so many mean comments and bad advice. If you look at the message board there are so many threads that are just blaming people . Why are you all so mean even if you dont know anything about the person? It is really anoing and just totally unnecessary. Why can´t Letsrun get back to what it was?

When was it good? 2003?

runbrun wrote:

When I first came up on Letsrun I was excited to be able to ask other people for seroius advice ad so on. People who have the same passion as me : running. Now it is almost impossible to start a seroius thread without getting so many mean comments and bad advice. If you look at the message board there are so many threads that are just blaming people . Why are you all so mean even if you dont know anything about the person? It is really anoing and just totally unnecessary. Why can´t Letsrun get back to what it was?

Because their life sucks in reality and this is their escape for retribution.

crap sinks from the top wrote:

GrandKlegal wrote:

Mean people suck. Peace out.

Here's a perfect example. I'm sure they will read this post at some point, maybe even respond to it to refute it

But will they ban this guy's username?

history says probably not

then they wonder why people get the impression they turn a blind eye toward the racism problem on these boards

Ha they banned me and said I'm banned forever cause in a racist yet I never said anything racial and they refuse to explain themselves.

All I do is try to help people here never posted anything race related at all.

I just hop off my Wi-Fi and use my cell service to post here.

Id leave but I try to stay to help the few good people here or newcomers cant let the garbage win out but when its enabled from the top its a struggle.

runbrun wrote:

When I first came up on Letsrun I was excited to be able to ask other people for [serious] advice [and] so on. People who have the same passion as me : running. Now it is almost impossible to start a [serious] thread without getting so many mean comments and bad advice. If you look at the message board there are so many threads that are just blaming people . Why are you all so mean even if you [don't] know anything about the person? It is really [annoying] and just totally unnecessary. Why can´t Letsrun get back to what it was?

This is a standard phenomenon with discussion boards, in my experience. It's the Internet analogue of Gresham's Law: Bad posters crowd out good. Not having mandatory registration insures that there will be bad posters; and, as someone suggested above, non-registration is the BrosJo's chosen business model.

Some folks on this board can remember when the likes of Jim Spivey, Jack Daniels, and Ruth Wysocki used to post. Don't hold your breath waiting for that kind of input anymore.

With all that said, however, I still find some threads to be informative. You just have to develop the ability to recognize the meanspirited posts in a given thread and "voop" right past them.

It just doesn't make any sense. People are SOOOO nice everywhere else.

this by far the worse board i visit

Been on board since year 1 of this site. It was always edgy and a Wild West show. The supremies appeared in the early 2000s, like ‘03 and ‘04 and have been lurking and posting ever since. May be more emboldened now due to wider acceptance in the right wing media and in politics.

This is by far the best board I ever visited

GodEmperor wrote:

This is by far the best board I ever visited

If I am still standing, hit me with a Letsrun board and knock me down, because that means I didn’t run hard enough

I agree, I ask a simple thread and people are so mean to me and call me names.

Don't tread on me wrote:

hahah wrote:

ok well congrats, you must miss a lot then.

sooooooo.....you missed the KKK reference on this page then?

Perhaps you are referring to "GrandKlegal." I'm unsure just what to make of that as the KKK has a "Kleagle" but not a "Klegal."

right.......and just total coincidence they decided to chime in and respond to the white supremacist post.

It's hard to survive on Letsrun, but that's how we get strong.

I use too think this too, until I read a bunch of old threads.

Ecclesiastes 1:9:

What has been will be again,

what has been done will be done again;

there is nothing new under the sun.

Lkhffy wrote:

Been on board since year 1 of this site. It was always edgy and a Wild West show. The supremies appeared in the early 2000s, like ‘03 and ‘04 and have been lurking and posting ever since. May be more emboldened now due to wider acceptance in the right wing media and in politics.

"Edgie" is not a word that comes to mind.

Letsrun.com: Empowering white supremacists since 2001

Saywhat2 wrote:

runbrun wrote:

When I first came up on Letsrun I was excited to be able to ask other people for seroius advice ad so on. People who have the same passion as me : running. Now it is almost impossible to start a seroius thread without getting so many mean comments and bad advice. If you look at the message board there are so many threads that are just blaming people . Why are you all so mean even if you dont know anything about the person? It is really anoing and just totally unnecessary. Why can´t Letsrun get back to what it was?

Because their life sucks in reality and this is their escape for retribution.

Mostly millennials. Easily identifiable by terms like throwing shade and butthurt. Missrable people.

runbrun wrote:

When I first came up on Letsrun I was excited to be able to ask other people for seroius advice ad so on. People who have the same passion as me : running. Now it is almost impossible to start a seroius thread without getting so many mean comments and bad advice. If you look at the message board there are so many threads that are just blaming people . Why are you all so mean even if you dont know anything about the person? It is really anoing and just totally unnecessary. Why can´t Letsrun get back to what it was?

Some of it is the anonymous nature and that it is free. I pay for a subscription to a sports website (The Athletic) and the amount of rude comments is minimal. For one, you have to sign in through gmail or facebook and also you pay. Every now and then it gets testy, but on the whole it is a great discussion areas.

I think if you are asking for advice you are going to get "bad" advice and just need to accept that. You can disagree with the bad advice without name calling although that seems really hard for some people.

I sort of think that posting on the message board is like the old salt about having a rough day at work and coming home and kicking the dog. I think that for some people they vent their frustrations in life out on the message boards.

The mean comments certainly sting more than the anodyne ones or the ones that are point. It does not take long for the discussion to devolve into name calling or go so off track as to render the thread worthless.

Often I wonder why I check in here so often. Letsrun is the girlfriend (or boyfriend) that you just keep checking in on even though things went bad years ago.

Not the age of aquarius..... wrote:

Saywhat2 wrote:

Because their life sucks in reality and this is their escape for retribution.

Mostly millennials. Easily identifiable by terms like throwing shade and butthurt. Missrable people.

I am curious about the age group breakdown of posters.