Probably gonna need a better handle if you all you can do is make 4th grade jokes about other people's handle.
In all seriousness, the Venn diagram for top poster is the overlap between quality takes on running, right wing spamming posts and just posting way too much.
*And yes, twins are more likely to have dyslexia if one twin has it, especially if they are identical twins. Estimates of the concordance rate for dyslexia in identical twins range from 40% to 70%. But I am not diagnosing anyone, I am just saying we could chill out when it comes to typos. :)
Dyslexia and typos are very different things.
I was a spelling bee champ in high school and for the life of me can't spell now. I think it just shows what people put a priority on is what they get right. When I fire off a post, a lot of the time I don't proof it. Rojo must never proof his :)
And if Rojo were to edit someone else's post that would not go to him. Anonymous posts wouldn't count either. I'm sure of that.
Yes, that is what I assumed it was in the beginning of my post. You just generate so much content that it is easy for people on the board to go back over it and find every typo.
I am a person who types really quickly (which is good) but it also means that if I don't go back and edit a post, there is almost always a spelling error or a missing letter. That is not because I have dyslexia but because I am typing so fast.
And…he was busted for garden variety test evasion after 3 successful seasons at the top, which defied the idea that he was rocket fuel doping. The tampering indicates it was a scheme (facilitating microdosing, and avoiding “glowing” moments). Sure you’d want to share all the posts by you and others who wrote he’d never do anything relevant ever again after the spring of 2021? If you can find me apologizing ever for Katir after we learned of his missed tests I’d be pretty surprised.
Actually, the opposite is true. The whole idea behind microdosing is that you never glow. Therefore a microdoser has no need to hide, ever.
Correct in theory.
I guess my Q would be of course how he managed to defy the system for over 2.5 seasons if he were hitting the drugs as hard as say Ramzi in this more test-heavy and surveillance-friendly era (ABP, OOC tests). We don't have transparency over missed tests, his ABP data, or if Spanish anti-doping shielded him (which I've seen alleged). That's kinda the problem with the system. If you miss a test, I've long proposed that you should then be forced to fund extra testing via fines and a punishment structure.
He didn't fade away and return to the supposed pre-doped level over the next two seasons where he got bronze/silver medals ran under 12:50 and 7:25. We don't know if that was through evading tests, microdosing, macrodosing, or just sheer luck. Maybe AIU officials can have the most informed POV on that, I wish we were privy to the info.
Having said, I normally appreciate your posts, Thoughtsleader.
Thanks, gonna have some duds here and there. If Coevett/others want to call me a doping apologist because I don't selectively rule out the chances of athletes they want me too of being clean simply based on their area of descent that's fine. Maybe that's naive. I'd say I harbored/harbor major (and close to equal) suspicions around Nordas, Katir, Shelby, Georgia Bell, Habz, Nader you name it. But I wouldn't go so far as to say I know they are 100% doping until I see a ban or a really clear allegation/tie. There're things that tilt the thinking (e.g. Sedjati sting operation).
I've never seen a post from Kobbs Hessler with more upvotes than downvotes. FACT.
There are many. Obviously. Basic math.
Here's one from three days ago, 43 upvotes to 1 downvote. I respect the athletes. I don't respect (and enjoy mocking) idiotic political takes. The idiots get angry and downvote me. But the discomfort they feel is part of their path to the light.
Indeed it's a shame that so many data remain hidden. More transparency would be nice, for example at least in the form of USADA (number of tests for each athletes and quarter).
The AIU published however that the Spanish athletes only had 2.7 OOC tests on average in the 10 months before Budapest 2023 - including AIU + NADO. That's less than 1 test per 100 days. So one can probably afford to glow a bit for 1 day per week or some such, especially considering that one may hide twice per year. But yes, Ramzi style doping only worked under corrupt NADOs, pre-AIU.
He blew away the competition in terms of upvotes and downvotes. He was the most upvoted poster and had 10x as many upvotes as downvotes.
This award doesn't have to go to person with the most netupvotes but if we're going off of net upvotes for the year the top 10 were 1) THOUGHTSLEADER 2) Josh Wesley Harding 3) rojo 4) Turo Towers XC 5) McRunnin 6) MattHatter 7) high school xc coach 8) Peach Pit 9) Salvitore Stitchmo 10) Kobbs Hessler
He posts generally very thoughtful posts on the forum, isn't afraid to start threads and is a great contributor to the LRC community. We've liked his stuff for a while so much so that we had him freelance for us as well.
Thoughtsleader was the guest on our Supporters Club podcast on Friday.
There are a lot of many good LRC posters that were not included. HRC is one of the best and always seems to be civil. Many people make me laugh as well and that is great. Thank you to all who make an effort to make LRC a great thing.
I want to know who has the highest % of upvotes vs. downvotes (And vice versa), do you have that list? Maybe require a minimum number of total votes to qualify.
Hey Wejo! Any chance we can get this leaderboard but averaged per post (probably with some minimum set for number of posts--52 would be one per week and that seems reasonable to me), so we can see the posters with the most net upvotes on a rate basis?
Also, can we get the same two tables for the top downvote-receivers (the raw net that you already posted, and the rate basis that I requested)?
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