wejo wrote:
I have restored this post. If you are the poster who has posted TONS of posts about malmo please stop doing that in other threads.
I have told the malmo not to remove ANY posts in this thread. (that doesn't mean others can't)
I will try and adjust 1 by 1:
Where you fail is in the anonymity of the moderating. Posts and threads just disappear. Often the perception is that large numbers of posts that have legitimate purpose will disappear simply because they run against a moderator's personal opinion.
That is NOT what a moderator should be doing. Moderators should not be using their power to suppress views the disagree with. If someone is posting possibly hundreds of posts and hijacking threads to talk about a moderator I don't have a problem with those being deleted. If you have a problem with a particular thread deleted feel free to email me
wejo@letsrun.com. We've been doing a "Deleted Thread of the week" on our podcast and will keep evaluating the threads deleted.
Since lots of hateful posts against you and Rojo are left up, I doubt it is you two. Who are your other moderators? Obviously Malmo, but who else?
Everyone who works at the site can moderate. There are others like malmo who can moderate as well, but you would not know them. Currently only people who work at the site can ban people (ie malmo can not ban someone he can only delete posts).
The other issue is with Malmo directly.
- He is allowed to post personal attacks against people and they remain. For example, he told Jamin to "stop wasting his time with Russian Whores."
I wouldn't characterize that as a personal attack but can see why that should be deleted. I
- He admitted to taking Winstrol during his career. While he has since been outspoken against doping in our sport, it's hard to swallow that he is a moderator on these boards when he himself doped, despite his assertion that he didnt cheat, because it didnt help him
Malmo's confessed to doping before LetsRun.com even started and I think we need more past people who doped to come forward. His confession is here:
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I don't think that doping and admitting it should prevent him from moderating. Moderating is a thankless job and why I don't always agree with his moderating decisions he does a good job of removing a lot of the crap on Letsrun. We will try and ensure he does not overstep his bounds.
- Posts expressing contrary opinions to his get deleted. I'm not talking about hateful comments, those should be deleted, I'm referring to somebody disagreeing with things that shouldn't be emotional: training methods, etc.
Once again this should not be happening. I know there was/is? a malmo jamin training thread that people were hijacking so it stuff got removed from that I can see it as collateral damage but we are reiterating with our moderators what their duties are.