LetsRun admin stirring sh1t and spreading BS giving this forum top billing. Waste of everyone's time.
It blows my mind you don't understand the term "auto-generated." Some person - perhaps a troll - started this thread. LOTS of people clicked on it and now it's super hot.
Normally threads like this have validity but I think this may have been a troll job. The OP hasn't come back and posted again from the same IP or cookie. They haven't provided any info.
I still think the thread is interesting. It makes people really think about doping, would anything shock them? What would most disappoint them, etc?
I always laugh when people say there are dopers too big to fail. They busted 100m champs Johnson, Jones,Gatlin and seemingly 50% of the 1500 champions in recent years, big marathon stars., etc.
You can see how little respect Rojo has for the intelligence of the typical poster. He is not wrong for having this view either but it is interesting that he is divulging it here again. A thread with its genesis being fiction is still “interesting” because it manipulates the crowd and generates clicks, also reveals how quick many are to believe what they read.
Something, I don’t know what, was drawing me back to Letsrun. I randomly checked and was like; ooh cool drug bust! Then 22 pages and nothing.
the majority of the posts on this thread is people like you complaining about there being no basis for the bust or complaining about the founders of LRC
Let me just say that as a first generation American that grew up in a neighborhood with almost no white people I did not know who Lance Armstrong was until the doping scandal. I will also say that before I took up running I also knew nothing about the big names in the sport whatsoever with the exception of Usain Bolt. He's the only athlete in T&F that I remember ever crossing this boundary. He was bigger than Lance in that sense for me and people around me. Did I like Bolt? I didn't have an opinion at the time either way but he at least held name recognition without having a major scandal all over the news.
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Something, I don’t know what, was drawing me back to Letsrun. I randomly checked and was like; ooh cool drug bust! Then 22 pages and nothing.
Definitely a low or no-content post. If this thread wasn't generating so much attention (and money), it probably would have been deleted an hour after it was created.
"It" a thread cannot manipulate a crowd in itself, maybe a contributor can manipulate a crowd, but not a thread. That makes no sense.
The interesting thing about the thread isn't some click-bating paranoia that you may have, it is interesting to see how people react, names they throw out. People's responses gives a pulse to what people are thinking.