New LRC Not So Much Fun - Is The Site Moderated Too Much Now?

Yep

Mods are doing fine. There's no reason to complain. Just don't say nasty things about public people and try not to directly call each other stupid while arguing about politics for the 2000th day in a row.

I disagree. For example:

"Hey, did you see today's latest shoe battle? Dude has run out of ideas and his vlog is just lame now." - was that nasty or offensive? The mods seem to think so.

"Why can't certain ethnic people voice concerns without setting their city on fire? Seems like the mind control vaccines makes them cray-cray and Let's Go Brandon keeps telling them to get more doses! How much does Fauci and Hunter make from this?" - this is a completely legitimate and inoffensive POV for a running site according to the mods.

Yeah, I'd like some info on why my threads get deleted

I mean you specifically have a music section of your thread creation!

I started a thread about a classical music Prodigy and it got deleted? Why? I mean you have a music section and then you're deleting a thread about music?

I also started a thread about why Christians would be anti-semitic when they're following a Jewish tradition!!! I mean it's a really good question because they're basically following the tradition of ancient Jewish people!

Everyone in the Bible is Jewish! Jesus is Jewish, disciples r Jewish!

Why would you delete this thread? I mean how is that not a valid line of inquiry or discussion piece?

There has been terrible anti-Semitism throughout history and much of it has been committed by people who believed in following the Bible?

Then I started a mo Farah thread because he won half marathon! And that also got deleted!!!

I've emailed you guys and I can get no clear guidelines about why threads r deleted

I mean jesus, have some guidelines! I never curse, I never insult people I never attack groups I just raised interesting discussion pieces...

I feel like the Jack Nicholson character in A Few Good Men! It's like you guys can't handle the truth! Anything interesting or provocative is immediately just deleted instead of looked at as potentially being good for the creative mind

I mean I don't care if you need to tweak something to change the title a little bit or whatever... but honestly you guys have just butchered tons of good threads I have started...

I mean yeah anything about politics or religion just gets deleted! These r Central important topics! And you guys just immediately delete them!

Your premise was literally disproven two posts above yours with the deletion of the innocuous Kenyan javelin thread.

Once Emma Coburn on HER OWN Instagram made fun of herself with a derogatory word. I referenced this and received a ‘lifetime ban’ saying it was crude. I had a heckuva time getting reinstated, although at times I wish I wouldn’t have been.

Calling the Kenyan javelin thread innocuous is either 1. Ignorant or 2. Dishonest

Was the first comment deleted? Because wejo is literally asking for examples of comments being deleted that shouldn't be. Or are you using the fact that the whole thread was deleted to say that the harmless posts were wrongly deleted?

What was so bad about the Kenyan javelin thread? How is that different than talking about American distance running? Some of the posts accusing them of doping might be disagreeable, but then again the BroJos repeatedly say they think such posts make the sport cleaner.

Because it's obvious race baiting and mods don't want to spend their morning trying to decide what's racist enough to delete. I know this is a running site and thus a track site but do you honestly believe that people here are just really curious about Kenyan javelin throwers? Maybe I'm the ignorant one and there's a strong contingent of javelin enthusiasts on this website who really want to break it all down.

I think it’s projection to call that race baiting. A thread on African javelin throwers would be about race. That thread was about just one country.

And so what if the majority of people on this site aren’t interested in discussing the javelin. It’s not a popularity contest. That thread reached 2 pages in less than 12 hours so enough people were interested in the topic. There have been other threads on field events/athletes. There was a thread on Kara Winger and there have been threads on Mondo Duplantis and the shot putters. I don’t understand why there can’t be a thread on Kenyan javelin throwers especially when most of the posts on that thread were respectful.

We can talk about the performance of one country (USA) in distance running, and we can talk about field events, but we can’t talk about one country (Kenya) in the javelin? Makes no sense.

If the brojos aren't the moderators, who are the moderators? We don't need their names, birthdates, and home addresses, but a bit more clarity about them would be helpful. Obviously they spent all day stabbing their Trump dolls between comment deletions, but what else?

Malmo

This thread asks the question is there too much moderation on the site now. It has been answered by the stream of posts removed from every page.

I think you have disproven your own.

I saw the thread on the javelin. As a former Equal Opportunity Officer, I can say definitively that it was race baiting. I started to report it immediately, but I was curious to see how long it would stay up before someone would delete it. It stayed up way too long.

I realize that some posters her are woefully clueless as to the racism of this post so let me spell it out for them.

Some people try to get around censors by replacing obvious racist epithets with different words. Here is how that applies to the thread that was deleted.

A javelin is a spear.

Thrower has synonyms. Search a thesaurus for synonyms for thrower and you will find a word that... when preceded by spear... is a derogatory epithet for blacks.

The OP probably thought it was funny. RACIST REMARKS ARE NEVER FUNNY. THEY ARE HURTFUL AND SHOULD BE BANNED AND THOSE POSTERS SHOULD BE BANNED FOR LIFE.

Mods rightfully deleted the thread. Hopefully, they also banned that poster for life.

It wasn’t innocuous. It was race baiting and succeeded.

It literally baited posters into coming in and arguing genetic superiority.