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its absolutely disgusting wrote:

How do you feel about the Barber death thread? Happy with the responses in there?

Are We Not Allowed a Rational Discourse? wrote:

Why are politics or social issues threads with INTELLIGENT and THOUGHT PROVOKING discussion from all sides deleted, but obviously troll dominated and inflammatory political threads allowed to have long lives?

moderation statistics wrote:

Personally I think the moderators should delete a lot more than they do but that's not my call.

Anyway, my question is this:

Sometimes the Moderation Statistics say, for example,

"Post Reports Awaiting A Moderator Decision: 25"
"Oldest Unmoderated Post Reported: 4 hours"

An hour later it might read,

"Post Reports Awaiting A Moderator Decision: 9"
"Oldest Unmoderated Post Reported: 5 hours"

Clearly, a moderator has reviewed the posts because 16 have been acted on. However, nine still remain to be reviewed. Why is this? Are some moderators not quite sure whether something should be deleted or not and so they just leave it for another moderator to make the decision? Have the moderators been given instructions by the owners not to delete certain topics until the owners get a chance to review the post? Something else?

Running Obsession wrote:

Running Obsession wrote:

I came here to post exactly this. I'm glad that at least something is being done. I think there are just as many people that want a pure running related message board as there are that want the classic uncensored board. A clear separation would be greatly appreciated.

Also, I still get the little spinning runner guy after every posted reply.

wejo wrote:

its absolutely disgusting wrote:

How do you feel about the Barber death thread? Happy with the responses in there?

I like the people paying their respects.

I ama not happy with the posts that have been deleted. I almost mentioned it in my first post here as it was one of the downsides this week. It represents some of the issues on here that I was talking about. People making homophobic references. It is sad people would do that in a time of tragedy where they should be paying respects to a person who is no longer here too young.

nonrunning wrote:

wejo wrote:

Got an email complaining that too many non-running threads are still in the running category.

Really? LOL

Current non-running threads on page 1:

The LetsRun.com Supporters Club is here. Become an LRC VIP today.

RIP: Shawn Barber - 2015 pole vault world champ and Canadian record holder - has died at age 29

City requires DNA tests on dogs to prosecute owners who don't pick up poop

“And are you sexually active?”

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Newname needs a newbrain wrote:

Thanks for allowing newname to continue spewing antisemitism and disinformation!

wejo wrote:

We did this last month I believe.

Feel free to post any questions concerns about the forum here.

From my perspective there are probably less pressing concerns than the last time we did this. It is always a handful of people who create the most problems on here.

There is the one serial homophobic poster still out to harass Nico Young about his personal life. We're constantly banning them/removing posts.

Got an email complaining that too many non-running threads are still in the running category.

We have been monitoring this more and trying to remove them but with our current setup there will be times non-running threads slip in. But the vast vast majority are running only.

Any other issues?

Kobbs Hessler wrote:

When a cause of death is not openly shared, particularly following the passing of a young person, it leads people to speculate. This is basic human nature. That speculation will inevitably center around - what is it about the death they don't want us to know? "Medical complications" could mean anything. Guessing by people with zero information can sometimes be distasteful, but "conspiracy theories" develop because fair-minded, reasonable questions are not addressed in a forthright manner.

is this ok? wrote:

In the Official Covid Vaccine thread you have Harambe posting as Dr. Newname and Dr. Dan M.

Is your policy that it's okay to imitate other posters as long as you pay the $99 annual membership fee?

Please advise.

look - wrote:

As to Seth Demoor, can we not talk about his training at all? He jogs for nearly 150 mpw at a snail's pace and does virtually nothing other than that.

wejo wrote:

There is the one serial homophobic poster still out to harass Nico Young about his personal life. We're constantly banning them/removing posts.

The only part not ok about that is dan and nn arent banned wrote:

is this ok? wrote:

In the Official Covid Vaccine thread you have Harambe posting as Dr. Newname and Dr. Dan M.

Is your policy that it's okay to imitate other posters as long as you pay the $99 annual membership fee?

Please advise.

Lol hilarious

Surprise! wrote:

Kobbs Hessler wrote:

When a cause of death is not openly shared, particularly following the passing of a young person, it leads people to speculate. This is basic human nature. That speculation will inevitably center around - what is it about the death they don't want us to know? "Medical complications" could mean anything. Guessing by people with zero information can sometimes be distasteful, but "conspiracy theories" develop because fair-minded, reasonable questions are not addressed in a forthright manner.

How he passed is not a fair-minded, reasonable question, it's up to the family to release this information if they so choose. No one has a right to know.