FredFlintstone wrote:
This site is a blessing to the world.
I agree. LOL
FredFlintstone wrote:
This site is a blessing to the world.
I agree. LOL
Case in point:
https://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=10897401
Thread about the best US mens' 1500m runner degenerates into a COVID slinging match within a few posts.
Because this site is a running themed toiled, where people can anonymously take a mental dump and releave their stress.
Everyone is extreme here, because they want and can - there are no consequences. Which is good, I'm sure venting and mentally defecating here prevented more than one public shooting or a case of domestic abuse.
rewqrewq wrote:
Case in point:
https://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=10897401Thread about the best US mens' 1500m runner degenerates into a COVID slinging match within a few posts.
That might be because some posters were accusing Cole Hocker of being medically irresponsible?
Such an accusation shouldn't go unchallenged. Find something better to whinge about.
It seems like the moderation targets on an ideological line - conservative leaning threads seem to stay up while most things remotely left of center seem to be deleted. It would be interesting to see letsrun's internal moderation policies, both spoken and unspoken, but I doubt that will happen.
Melting Article. wrote:
rewqrewq wrote:
Case in point:
https://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=10897401Thread about the best US mens' 1500m runner degenerates into a COVID slinging match within a few posts.
That might be because some posters were accusing Cole Hocker of being medically irresponsible?
Such an accusation shouldn't go unchallenged. Find something better to whinge about.
It's been discussed many times before and we really don't need it again. My point is that it's a shame there can't be a discussion about the one of the top US runners that focuses on his running. Maybe you should be posting on LetsCOVID.com.
Letsrun does not pay homage, 100%, to the iron laws of the woke left. There are plenty of leftists on this site, and their opinions are allowed. But of course free expression is not the purpose of wokeism. Therefore letsrun is considered a poisonous sewer, dangerous, violent, and must be wiped from the face of the earth. Such is the mentality of the woke.
Welcome to the internet OP.
CopperRunner wrote:
There does seem to be a really big surge in conservative
It started at the start of the pandemic and people being scared to go into the office and the cons being free to flex their attitudes online. The antimask crowd, now the antivax crowd are really enjoying their surge of fame.
flannel panel wrote:
Not everyone is a super progressive leftist and that's okay wrote:
No letsrun shouldn't be deleted. No letsrun isn't a right wing cess pool. The majority of threads aren't bad, most bad threads get taken down, and you can deal with someone having an opinion that isn't what you believe or saying something mean about you.
Yes, it is toxic. The owners are completely irresponsible with the internet. They pushed someone to suicide. They scrambled the brains of many others. People talk about the youth here with 4chan-like anonymity. There is zero accountability for misinformation. Threads live on and haunt people from the search engines for years to come including when people are in the middle of job searches. HR doesnt know that 65% of it is made up.
Yes, this place needs to be deleted and the big media are going to force this thing to shut down. Rojo is the algorithm with all of his sockpuppets driving madness for increased views just like Facebook. The hatred has brewed and brewed into something more here. I cant look at this site on my phone because if I leave the tab open my battery drains at a rate of 5% per 5 minutes due to the ads flashing everywhere.
This site sucks. It ruins the sport.
Face
You are the worst kind of clueless.
The people s hitting on this site from afar dont even post here, contribute, etc.
They "took their ball and went home", so to speak. What a loser mentality. Since when has that ever been a good character trait?
As for "cancelling" a website lol. Do you know how the internet works? If you want censored internet, subscribe to a Chinese VPN.
Mikeh33 wrote:
Letsrun does not pay homage, 100%, to the iron laws of the woke left. There are plenty of leftists on this site, and their opinions are allowed. But of course free expression is not the purpose of wokeism. Therefore letsrun is considered a poisonous sewer, dangerous, violent, and must be wiped from the face of the earth. Such is the mentality of the woke.
It's not your awful opinions that cause the big issues with the site.
It's the same characters using multiple handles to amplify the filth and that a good number of the moderation team (who for some unknown reason can't be named) also hold similar opinions and make use of the unregistered handle situation.
If it was just you guys using your own handles it wouldn't be an issue, particularly if there was a little more transparency as to who the mods are and what/why they're deleting things.
Mikeh33 wrote:
Letsrun does not pay homage, 100%, to the iron laws of the woke left. There are plenty of leftists on this site, and their opinions are allowed. But of course free expression is not the purpose of wokeism. Therefore letsrun is considered a poisonous sewer, dangerous, violent, and must be wiped from the face of the earth. Such is the mentality of the woke.
This. I lean right but agree with the left on a few areas (birth control, gay marriage) and the site is even-handed. There's plenty of leftists and conservatives here that get along, probably better than in real life (they can be honest with each other).
Sticks and stones may break my bones...you get the drift.
interesting take wrote:
It seems like the moderation targets on an ideological line - conservative leaning threads seem to stay up while most things remotely left of center seem to be deleted. It would be interesting to see letsrun's internal moderation policies, both spoken and unspoken, but I doubt that will happen.
Yup. Yup and Yup.
My post in this thread was deleted because I pointed out some facts about moderation. I wonder how my right-leaning friends feel about that? You guys good with posts being deleted? Where's this idea of freedom of speech that loves to get throws around here?
mike weston from burn notice wrote:
Leftists try to silence any views that differ from their own. Leftists are the most intolerant people on earth.
There is no need to tolerate stupidity. This basic commonsense understanding seems not to be able to make its way through your side 's cognitive dissonance. Years before the proliferation of social media, when libraries and Encyclopedia Britannica ruled, no one held the view that the world is flat. Now, with the rise of social media, there are stupid people trumping that the world is flat. Gimme a break!
You are allowed to have a view that is reasoned. All unreasoned, stupid, brain dead crap, should never ever be tolerated.
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