Monthly state of the forums discussion - what are we doing right, what should we do differently, what can we improve

Preferential treatment wrote:

Mikeh33 wrote:

believe you me I know. I’ve posted about antisemitism before, and it’s pretty shocking some of the comments I got. It was very interesting to me that those posts lasted a long time (and some may still be there) but any criticism of moderation will get you deleted immediately, if not banned.

I’m prepared to allow for certain kinds of views. However some of the posts on my thread more or less advocated for violence against Jews, and that would definitely fall under the category of violent posts that I would delete.

Good news is those kinds of posts are pretty rare in the grand scheme of things. The vast majority of posts on this board are running related, as they should be.

Heres a good example of why we shouldnt have threads pn topics like politics, religion or current news that’s not running related. Why is this stuff posted on a running site??

Kvothe wrote:

My home ip address got banned for using the name of a breed of cat to make a post about the northeastern state. Didn't click to me that racists would want to use part of that name and that they were a big problem on letsrun at some point - and no warning, perma ip ban.

So I probably won't stop using a vpn lol. I need it to get better coverage of international track & field than peacock offers anyways, might as well take advantage of what I'm paying for. Given the state of US coverage of track, it would be surprising if a lot of posters didn't use vpns.

Anyways, these posters are probably using vpns because Malmo or another mod ip banned them. And some of them are probably "the pretend coach poster" sock puppeting. I don't know how people know its Malmo that banned them unless they were arguing with him and then found themselves banned. But he has become a sort of face for the mod team since he interracts on the boards.

1. You guys need to have an about us section with the mods - with maybe a meet the mods type bio for each them. You shouldn't run your board like the moderation team is the secret police. Humanizing the mods and showing they are fans of running just like us would go along way to alleviating people's fears about posting here.

2. I hope you can figure out a better plan to stop "the poster who posts spam and adult content" . The current policy isn't working - people post about coming to the site and seeing it filled with those threads, and having to leave less their love of running get mistaken for something else - or something to that effect.

3. I think creating a new category of posts nonrunning - no politics and nonrunning - political and allowing posters to select whether they want to see these would go a long way to alleviating some complaints.

4. I think what you guys are doing for the sport is great. The world xc meetup looked like a lot of fun. If there is ever anything like that around club xc again - and club xc happens to not be within a week of CIM or Honolulu (unless I decide to race something else lol) I might go.

I really hope you at least consider point 1. Posters don't need to know which mod deleted their post or is active on the board at any given time but knowing who the mods are and what their interests and running background are would go a long way to fostering community.

As banning and deleting wrote:

Thread:www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?th...

This link goes to the former Official Thread to Discuss Moderation. Look at the last 5 Pages or so—it’s absolutely littered with deleted posts by Malmo. He went on ban and deletion rampage when the Brojos and Gault were at World XC and distracted. Complete abuse of power.

Wejo likes to claim that all of these posts were attack by Malmo, but that’s objectively not true.

On Page 38, Malmo comes out of the wood work to attack me out of nowhere with this post (still up). I hadn’t been posting about him or Rojo in any way, nor had I been abusing my posting privileges. For that, Malmo saw fit to personally attack me with this delusional insult ridden post AND THEN HE BANNED ME.

“You're the obnoxious guy who stalks and harasses rojo nearly every day with this "as rojo" sheet.. You've been doing it for years. You do not actually participate in any threads. You will be dealt with "as deleted". Just stop it. It's a really weird obsession.
"as goodbye, pumpkin pie"”

wejo wrote:

As banning and deleting wrote:

Thread:www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?th...

This link goes to the former Official Thread to Discuss Moderation. Look at the last 5 Pages or so—it’s absolutely littered with deleted posts by Malmo. He went on ban and deletion rampage when the Brojos and Gault were at World XC and distracted. Complete abuse of power.

Wejo likes to claim that all of these posts were attack by Malmo, but that’s objectively not true.

On Page 38, Malmo comes out of the wood work to attack me out of nowhere with this post (still up). I hadn’t been posting about him or Rojo in any way, nor had I been abusing my posting privileges. For that, Malmo saw fit to personally attack me with this delusional insult ridden post AND THEN HE BANNED ME.

“You're the obnoxious guy who stalks and harasses rojo nearly every day with this "as rojo" sheet.. You've been doing it for years. You do not actually participate in any threads. You will be dealt with "as deleted". Just stop it. It's a really weird obsession.
"as goodbye, pumpkin pie"”

Your malmo concerns are being addressed. You have posted 19 times in this thread pretty much about the same thing.

And are now bringing up old threads. And post about this in other threads and email us. I reiterate if you go off topic and post about malmo in threads, the posts will be deleted. An often this leads to a ban as if you then say "hey where is my post and post it again. it kills the thread."