I am “coach Jeff roc”. I have also posted as spellcheck and multi ball poster.
I am “coach Jeff roc”. I have also posted as spellcheck and multi ball poster.
totally white hat wrote:
I am “coach Jeff roc”. I have also posted as spellcheck and multi ball poster.
Using iPhone, the multiple anonymous ban thing worked but on my MacBook I posted from the same ip(I assume) using different anonymous names on this thread
Wejo - as crazy as it sounds, people being able to post under different names is part of the fun. I’ll be honest, I have never done it. But it does make for fascinating and funny threads.
Mikeh33 wrote:
Wejo - as crazy as it sounds, people being able to post under different names is part of the fun. I’ll be honest, I have never done it. But it does make for fascinating and funny threads.
Maybe offer the originator of a thread the option to allow only registered users to post. The default would be just like today where anything goes. But the opportunity to have threads without noise. Kind of like conversations at a bar after several drinks versus conversations at work where your boss is in the room.
Mikeh33 wrote:
Wejo - as crazy as it sounds, people being able to post under different names is part of the fun. I’ll be honest, I have never done it. But it does make for fascinating and funny threads.
? What makes it fun?
“Sockpuppet died today after a long battle with mental illness. He was widely mourned (anonymously), but it’s expected no one will turn up for his funeral IRL.”
killing thread wrote:
How killing or locking some threads? I am always surprised to see someone replying to a message from 2009 and wondering what they are talking about.
There can be good reason to bump an old thread though. IE a runner doesn't do anything in college, then makes a comeback 6 years after the last post on a thread and wins a major race. Someone wants to know about an old shoe they see listed on ebay (jasaris, kennedys, etc.). Most threads are bumped by people being annoying but not allowing old threads to be bumped just adds clutter when someone is trying to find legitimate info on a topic via google search.
Hi,
1) Please fix the scaling and excessive blank space on the sides. It is quite annoying on a large monitor.
2) Trackbot seems inactive. Can you please get that going again?
walter j wrote:
? What makes it fun?
Perhaps you need to go to the Runner's World Forums and see why....
erik wrote:
I just did some more tweaking of the colors to try to improve readability for people. The blues are a little more saturated now and match those on the old site. The yellow backgrounds also match -- they were a little off. I think these little differences are why people think the font is smaller.
We lightened up the gray backgrounds on the thread/index pages.
It seems like people are mixed on whether they prefer the new or old gray. Here are a few comparisons. What do you think looks better?
Here are some screenshots for comparison:
Old forum index:
https://imgur.com/a/oiEI7MwNew:
https://imgur.com/a/Mh22h1POld thread page:
https://imgur.com/a/nKjEgpsNew:
https://imgur.com/a/QxHUYt5
It looks better than it did yesterday, but that could be because I'm not reading it at night. Good improvement, but I still think an option for a dark color as opposed to white on the sides could help readability though.
jesseriley wrote:
“Sockpuppet died today after a long battle with mental illness. He was widely mourned (anonymously), but it’s expected no one will turn up for his funeral IRL.”
You are the most annoying troll of us all even though you use a registered name!
I’m especially worried that leading politicians whose whole strategy revolves around trolling will be unfairly penalized.
One poster, one handle? Like, you know, Democracy?
Runner's World Forums For You wrote:
walter j wrote:
? What makes it fun?
Perhaps you need to go to the Runner's World Forums and see why....
Lol as if the only thing that differentiates the two forums is being able to use multiple anonymous handles on a single thread topic. Awful argument.
info wrote:
Some people don’t quote the post they are replying to. So sometimes I want to know what was said, but it’s laborious to scroll through all the post searching for the username they are replying to. Thus, I think a good feature would be to add a successive number to each post. The post would include username and show who they are replying to as exist now, but also each post would be numbered, The first post would be #1, second post #2, third #3, fourth #4, and so on..... it can also show what post number they are replying to..
So keep the posters username, time/date, and the user name they are replying to.... but also add post number and the post number they are replying to.
Speaking of quoting posts, quotes that span more than about half a screenful on a larger monitor (mine is 24") with lots of extraneous verbiage irrelevant to the reply are the largest contributor to the poor signal-to-noise ratio here after excessive trolling or astroturfing.
It's not unusual to have to scroll through 2 or 3 screenfuls, heck 4 or 5 or 6 sometimes, just to get to a single one-line riposte. I enjoy great zingers as much as the next guy. But in my experience, posters who are thoughtless enough to barf up multiple screenfuls of multilevel quoted garbage 4 or 5 reply-levels deep are typically the same people who barf up similarly thoughtless/idiotic one-line throwaways or astroturfed howling to go along with it.
I would like to see an algorithm that prevents post-quotes longer than, for example (pulling rough numbers out of a hat just to get this out here), 1,000 characters on the one hand, or 15 lines (including blank lines between paragraphs) on the other hand. If either tripwire is exceeded, the poster would be sent back to the edit screen to trim things back.
True, there might need to be a bit of error-trapping to balance out the "quote" and "/quote" tags after people have trimmed a quote, but even if that were not done and they don't balance out properly, it would still help out here tremendously. (Using the Preview function before posting also will show extra tags.) The super-high level of quote barfing here drives me away from the forums just as often as astroturfing does.
Can we get GIFS up in here? Would love that.
Nope, don't like the new format. Biggest complaint? It shows how far back a post was last commented on by minutes/hours/days/etc. This makes it harder to tell when it was. The old board told you the day and the time. Granted there was only one time visible (central USA) but you could at least remember that you left off at 2 Jan at 3:30pm. Now you can't tell where you left off at all.
It's kind of like using a wall clock to tell how long you ran for instead of a stopwatch. Why step back in technology?
Like this?
thank gawd wrote:
info wrote:
Some people don’t quote the post they are replying to. So sometimes I want to know what was said, but it’s laborious to scroll through all the post searching for the username they are replying to. Thus, I think a good feature would be to add a successive number to each post. The post would include username and show who they are replying to as exist now, but also each post would be numbered, The first post would be #1, second post #2, third #3, fourth #4, and so on..... it can also show what post number they are replying to..
So keep the posters username, time/date, and the user name they are replying to.... but also add post number and the post number they are replying to.
Speaking of quoting posts, quotes that span more than about half a screenful on a larger monitor (mine is 24") with lots of extraneous verbiage irrelevant to the reply are the largest contributor to the poor signal-to-noise ratio here after excessive trolling or astroturfing.
It's not unusual to have to scroll through 2 or 3 screenfuls, heck 4 or 5 or 6 sometimes, just to get to a single one-line riposte. I enjoy great zingers as much as the next guy. But in my experience, posters who are thoughtless enough to barf up multiple screenfuls of multilevel quoted garbage 4 or 5 reply-levels deep are typically the same people who barf up similarly thoughtless/idiotic one-line throwaways or astroturfed howling to go along with it.
I would like to see an algorithm that prevents post-quotes longer than, for example (pulling rough numbers out of a hat just to get this out here), 1,000 characters on the one hand, or 15 lines (including blank lines between paragraphs) on the other hand. If either tripwire is exceeded, the poster would be sent back to the edit screen to trim things back.
True, there might need to be a bit of error-trapping to balance out the "quote" and "/quote" tags after people have trimmed a quote, but even if that were not done and they don't balance out properly, it would still help out here tremendously. (Using the Preview function before posting also will show extra tags.) The super-high level of quote barfing here drives me away from the forums just as often as astroturfing does.
thank gawd wrote:
I would like to see an algorithm...
The people at letsrun dont even know what an algorithm is let alone creating a custom one that "trims" the excess.
Yeah, i get a blank field after posting, then the "your post was successful message" multiple times when i click on other threads.