IF that can't happen, then can we just move them all to a "political" category and remove them from the main page?
You do understand that you have to click on them to read them... don't you?
They don't care. Liberals are upset that other people are having unapproved conversations, even if they themselves aren't required to take part. That's what's really happening here.
While you’re at it, please ban threads and posts whining about this forum. If people want reddit, go to Reddit if you want Facebook go to Facebook. Next I’ll be sending an email to McDonald’s asking why they don’t sell pizza.
If there was only a way to filter them or make me not click on them and read all the posts in the thread. 🤦♂️
The problem with the running-only filter is many of us like to see threads on non-running topics like sports, music, and non-political current events. I don't want a running-only board. I want a non-political board.
How about a filter that filters out the political threads?
If political threads are banned, I'd have to find a new place to read epic screeds about Chicago's imminent crime and real estate collapse. Amazing how courageous Chicagoans wake up every day -- knowing all too well that world-renowned Letsrun criminologists and realty professionals have predicted sudden doom -- and go about their daily lives as if it's not about to come crashing down.
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I seem to remember one guy on the west coast that kept promising a catastrophic decline in real estate prices and the economic demise of his hometown while, at the same time, purchasing a $1.3 million property in that city. He’s either a know nothing fool or about to lose his a$$ in the most epic way possible.
Each registered user can put in their profile a list of words that would be blocked from their feed. For example, if the word "Trump" or "'Biden" is in a users block list, then any thread titles or posts with whose words in it, would not be shown on the user's list of threads.
Possible to do or not?
They can't even make the thread open to the last post you read...
I come here for the political discussion more than anything else, so get rid of the politics and I won't be here hardly at all.
I think it is a good idea to limit threads though in the following ways:
1) if there are duplicate threads on the same topic, delete all but one. Some posters just throw up thread after thread that are virtually the same.
2) Don't allow posts to just spam the site with some tabloid level links to a politically charged vids, that offer no commentary or discussion. These are just political spam, posters trying to spread their message, and it isn't about discussion.
remember the general ethos the Johnsons want for the boards: A group of runners out for a long run and just shooting the breeze about whatever they want to.
politics are a part of that kind of chat on a long run
or at least they used to be...maybe now it can't happen because we hate each other so much.
If your running group shoots the breeze with the kind of vitriol that appears on these boards, you might want a new running group. :-)
At the top of the Forum page I have buttons: All Threads | Just Running Threads | Custom Threads. Can't you just click the "Just Running" button and never see these kind of threads again?
That is what I would do.
You sound like someone who says, "I hate Fox News" (me too) but still watches Fox News (I don't). Just don't show the political threads! Problem solved!
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While you’re at it, please ban threads and posts whining about this forum. If people want reddit, go to Reddit if you want Facebook go to Facebook. Next I’ll be sending an email to McDonald’s asking why they don’t sell pizza.
Yeah… but what you don’t understand is that the OP is just asking for LRC to go back to its roots. So it’s more like if McDonald’s started selling only pizza and you were angry that they no longer sold hamburgers. Believe it or not, this place used to be a smart, funny, and interesting place to have conversations.
At the top of the Forum page I have buttons: All Threads | Just Running Threads | Custom Threads. Can't you just click the "Just Running" button and never see these kind of threads again?
Can someone explain why this is getting downvoted? I am just pointing out that there is a button you can click so you never have to see the political threads! Problem solved!