A Plead to the BrosJohnson to ban the political threads

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.

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.

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.

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.

If your running group shoots the breeze with the kind of vitriol that appears on these boards, you might want a new running group. :-)

They won’t. Their ad revenue would tank. Thats all these egomaniacs care about.

This is what I assumed and that's why it is a plea to make the site better.

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!

All eight of them?

Have you thought this through?

Do you really want those trolls who live to post vitriol and ad-hominem and racist screeds forced to post onto all the other threads?

POTD

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.

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!