what was with mark's wide eyes and fists waving around? mark was so emotional, and his argument was so full of ad hominens that it nullified anything he was trying to communicate.
also, i think all mark has done here is alienate people into flotrack and lets run camps. this is terrible for the sport.
Logical Man wrote:
The guy in that video who isn't Mark pisses me off a bit, I do not know why, I just don't like him.
yeah, he seems alright, but he's trying too hard to be like alex and ryan which is a little weird.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3lGKMXYOG8Some things I've noticed tonight in this thread include:
1. flotrack is slow to load.
2. many posters have went from using flotrack daily to 3 times a week to once a week to never. I am in this boat too. **This is not out of some vendetta against mark or flotrack but because they just aren't offering me anything that i need, and now they're going to charge for that?
Lorenzo the Magnificent wrote:
I like Flotrack and give less than a damn about the Hatfields and McCoys, but Flotrack gums up and slows down my computer.
I agree, I tried watching the Mark video response, and it just sat there with that black and gray screen loading (which is not good for my business). Then I hit reload, and it gradually came to life. It's been that way for years. I use Google Chrome, by the way, and don't have a crap computer.
Lol "bad for the sport"? This has nothing to do with the sport.
Did that video from FloTrack remind anyone else of the WWE and WCW interviews from back in the day when Jake the Snake would call out Big John Stud?
Seems about as fake and stupid as those were. If I was a company looking to invest in track and field, the two over caffeinated hipsters with the unruly hand gestures would be where i'd drop my coin.
Where's the PayPal button? What's next? TrackChickswithDoucheBags.com?
It reminded me of those Runnerspace weekly rundowns I stopped watching about 3 years ago.
tony soprano wrote:
I'm on the fence, but think I might pull the trigger and go Pro.
Great! Maybe that means you'll spend less time here starting threads that have nothing to do about running, while cluttering up the board?
ughh, it is annoying.
FloTrack Is SLOOOOOOW wrote:
4eaf wrote:Is it just my shitty computer or can anyone else never get flotrack videos to load?
Not just you. Their vidoes take forever to load and their site in general is very slow. Sometimes I have to refresh a video 3 times before it will load properly and even then it's glitchy. Maybe this is their marketing strategy so they get more page hits since I have to keep reloading the page?
lol.
I think they miscalculated the amount of money people allocate to sports and entertainment per month. I, for one, have cable tv, home internet service, cell phone internet service, local gym, high school child sports/games/meets, season tickets to college basketball, season tickets to pro soccer, and random entertainment bills that I need to cover monthly/seasonally. I just don't see myself spending $20/month on FloTrack pro with all that, including the fact that I already pay $30 per month to access the entire internet. I'd consider it at $5 per month.
"Mark" looks angry in that video. He's getting all riled up and looks all crazy, like in his eyes. I kind of like it, like it's funny to me I can't describe it. You guys know if Mark from the video is single?
I like letsrun AND flotrack. I think it would be great for viewers to be able to watch a video debate about this particular situation if not only to educate us.
really? really? wrote:
i'll tell you why: FIRE MITCH! good god hes so awkward and terrible in the interviews. just watch the last run junkie he awkwardly stares at the camera half the time and makes wierd hand gestures. ugly glasses and a haircut from the 1950's. to have him in your employment basically says: "we here at flotrack are open to hiring hipster douches"
He also steals content from other sites and claims to have produced it himself.
All the trolls on letsrun are going to be jumping around tonight like a scene out of LOTR now that their master-orc has been challenged to battle by an elvish-clan.
I laughed outloud
Watch as a group of humans turn into a raving band of screaming apes. Disgusting!
bangalangadanga wrote:
Logical Man wrote:The guy in that video who isn't Mark pisses me off a bit, I do not know why, I just don't like him.
yeah, he seems alright, but he's trying too hard to be like alex and ryan which is a little weird.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3lGKMXYOG8
At first I thought that was a Flotrack video and I couldn't believe how fast it was loading.
...then I realized it was YouTube.
tony soprano wrote:I'm on the fence, but think I might pull the trigger and go Pro.
Hold on, I thought you wrote (or at least used to write) a column for Flotrack. Maybe I'm confusing you with someone else. (Like a lot of people here, I used to visit Flotrack almost daily, but it petered out to weekly a few years ago, and then to nothing in the last year or so, so I'm not really in touch with content there anymore.)
Anyway, if I've got that right, then the fact that someone that closely associated with Flotrack is CONSIDERING pulling the trigger is pretty telling.
This is who you should be taking your argument to Mark: Chris Lotsbom
He wrote the article you're pissed about
http://www.letsrun.com/news/2013/01/flotrack-partners-with-the-armory-to-broadcast-two-meets/