A Plead to the BrosJohnson to ban the political threads

They don't want to solve the problem. They just want to complain.

They just hate the daily reminder that their candidate lost to a convicted felon. It triggers them and they have to spend more money on TDS therapy. Now mind you, evidently it was just fine the pst four years when Sleepy Joe was in office, but now it is too much to bear.

I just wish they'd try it for a test period. If after 90 days the daily traffic is down significantly, then open it back up.

But please just TRY to get this back on track (pun fully intended.)

Hi Robert and Weldon,

Thanks for your thoughtful, well articulated response. The way you listen to and care about your users really comes through! It's truly obvious that this place has turned out the way it has is due to all your hard work.

appreciate you guys!

I used to come here often. The politics invading every thread regardless of the original topic has made me greatly reduce the number of visits to this site.

No because it would reward tattle tale behavior.

I’ve been on let’s running since it began almost 25 years ago. The threads happening today were around back then. Letting has not changed that much since it began.

That is not a solution. Many want to see all non running threads but the political threads. The political threads are filled with spiteful, hateful vitriol and bigotry whereas many of the nonrunning political threads are funny. Other than when I'm following along with a thread during a WMM, DL, or championship meet, the non-political nonrunning threads were usually the best threads on this site. Sure there is stuff like the Eddy Lee thread that is interesting, but those types of good running threads don't occur all that frequently. The longer you use sites like letsrun the more you notice repeat topics, boring topics, etc. We want a real solution.

It's people like you making comments like this that are exactly the problem. You know that, yet you find this funny. Be better.

Political threads might not be a dumpster fire if we had actual discourse instead of comments like the one you quoted. This is why we want a way to see the message board without them.

Posts and threads don't generally get deleted if they have value.

Value determined by you? Maybe you could be the LR speech and value police.

Please don't make me click on the political threads...Please.....I can't control myself....

I was around then as well, and you're not entirely correct. First of all, people were not as "anonymous" back in the early aughts. They may have had user names like el machin and stuff, but we knew who they were and even their hot takes were respectful. Secondly, the off topic threads - and even political threads - were interesting conversations, or just very funny and entertaining to read. They were hated-speech-filled screeds from crazy loonies.

To the guy's post immediately above about not clicking, I will repeat what is said by many in this thread: the political hatred degrades the discourse on all threads. This place is a problem. And it is getting worse.

Ugh, fixed above...