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

Come on libs, white supremacists? You are pathetic.

This so called world famous message board is a thinly veiled forum for racists and bigots to espouse their views under the guise of running, politics and popular culture.

Vulcan wrote:

This so called world famous message board is a thinly veiled forum for racists and bigots to espouse their views under the guise of running, politics and popular culture.

In the words of the late, great philosopher Rodney King: "can't we all just get along?"

SJWHippie wrote:

Vulcan wrote:

This so called world famous message board is a thinly veiled forum for racists and bigots to espouse their views under the guise of running, politics and popular culture.

In the words of the late, great philosopher Rodney King: "can't we all just get along?"

My guess is it's a just a handful of egregious bigots. But that's all it takes. And site managers can be slow to respond. Don't think they harbor those views, at least not in full force. Country clubbers, not KKK.

Message boards that don't have trolling are more or less empty and soul-less.

If you go an post a generic question about how to do something on some well enforced hobby forum the posters that have bothered to remain at their boring ivory tower site become insufferable to deal with.

"PLEASE READ THE 30 PAGE FAQ BEFORE POSTING!!! WE DON'T NEED MORE QUESTIONS ABOUT WHAT A FARTLEK IS CLOGGING UP THIS BOARD!!"

"If you would learn to use the search function you could have seen that this question was already answered in 2011, please don't repost"

"Why did you bring this old thread from 2011 back from the grave. Read the rules and don't NECRO threads!"

I don't understand why people feel the need to have everyone be nice to them on the internet. Just scroll past the troll posts (and maybe get a chuckle out of the really good ones).

What I think would help is the ability to upvote and downvote. No hiding posts or changing their order; just show the up and down totals next to every post.

What this would do is a) give us a way to respond to trolls without feeding them, and b) remind us all that the majority of people on here are positive. For instance, if Sage Canaday posts and then someone responds "you're slow and you suck", Sage's original post would have a lot of upvotes, and the troll response would have a lot of downvotes. We'd be less likely to drive away the last of the (quasi-)elites that way.

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?

Have you no compassion? How else are runners and ex runners going to make a living if you all are coming up on here for free advice? They need your business at their coaching camps. They need you to support your local shoe store, support the shoe companies, support the running apparel and endurance product brands. They need you to get on that Instagram and give athletes and their sponsors views as well as empty compliments! They need you to buy their books and tell all biographies on Amazon! Click that link and get thirty percent off Hello Fresh!

I found this forum by searching google about funny running stories. The thread was so hilarious had so many funny stories of people contributing. There should be more fun threads like that, but everyone is just like buttholes with corn cobs up their ass... or the threads are so tasteless it's like watching the presidential inauguration or poka dancing so boring... (yawn)

This is the nicest forum I've been on seriously.

Dear rungrun,

It is what it you make it to be. You haven't posted any running times.

Are you male of female? But I think it would suit you fine if you got

out the purple fish net stockings, the missile silo bra, the wig,

lipstick and some good running shoes, then stand at a busy corner

in your city, and take a walk on the wild side. It wouldn't surprise

me if you found a group of women eye you up and ask you out

for a cocktail.

Just LOL wrote:

This is the nicest forum I've been on seriously.

"This doesn't even taste like poop at all!", says the guy with crap smeared all over his face

upvoting and downvoting is for hobbyjogger forums like reddit.com

wiz khalifa wrote:

upvoting and downvoting is for hobbyjogger forums like reddit.com

Truth.

wiz khalifa wrote:

upvoting and downvoting is for hobbyjogger forums like reddit.com

+1

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.

Very well said. Heaps and heaps of angst amongst these keyboard warriors. Why a fool with female problems and multiple screen names is not banned into oblivion is completely beyond me. I've been here since 02/03; and would absolutely agree that the boards have degraded each year. I would also agree that the owners of this site prefer it this way. Certainly a very toxic environment, and becoming more difficult to find the good info amongst the piles of trash.

Necrosis wrote:

Saywhat2 wrote:

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

Very well said. Heaps and heaps of angst amongst these keyboard warriors. Why a fool with female problems and multiple screen names is not banned into oblivion is completely beyond me. I've been here since 02/03; and would absolutely agree that the boards have degraded each year. I would also agree that the owners of this site prefer it this way. Certainly a very toxic environment, and becoming more difficult to find the good info amongst the piles of trash.

the know the exact type of person you are talking about, every time I make a thread even if it's a real question or just bored passing the time and posting a thread about a shower thought I have this butthole that comes into my thread and rates it and calls me a troll and tries to belittle me. he is the same person every time too I am sure of it.

Probably that dipsh!t turd Lydiard Cerutty.

I am not.

I've been browsing/trolling this board since 2002 or 2003, and one of the constants has been the refrain, "this site is going down hill!". It's always been a cesspool. Always will be. Deal with it or leave.