Hey Rojo, I got something to say about that! I know I’m only here for 3 months but I’m eyeing for that top spot. Rekrunner says there needs to be a more objective meter for such things.
Like a panel of judges composed of space-time specialist like me, Khamis and savant Coevett?
Obviously an American forum is going to upvote their own American posters when they also keep saying only sugary stuff about Shocker and Fishery isn’t it?
I don’t think it’s fair and if you want my honest opinion I would say Khamis or Coevett from Team GB or Armstrongliv from USA gets the nod ahead of thoughtleader.
This has to be a troll post. Armstrongliv is one of top 5 worst posters with the worst takes on this site.
Gee - thanks! You don't know how much that means to me!
Both ThoughtsLeader and John Wesley Harding are biased towards African athletes as well. This shows up in their 'ranking lists', as well as their comments. For example, the time when George Mills was entered into the Zurich DL meet at the end of 2023, undeservedly according to him and others, and despite running a sub 3:31 and coming 4th, ThoughtsLeader claimed that 'any number of Kenyan 3:33/3:34 guys would have done the same or better' if given the same opportunity.
Maybe you should give it a rest? You notice how I rarely nitpick or call out ArmstrongLivs because unlike you he has a consistent position on doping that isn't biased toward preconceived notions. He also doesn't intentionally misspell African athletes' names or misrepresent events constantly.
I'm not really sure what to tell you about this Mills critique, and I have no idea if I said he didn't belong in. Obviously he proved in 2023 he belonged in those races. The idea that some Kenyans who are B-teamers in Kenya can run 3:29-3:32 when given an opportunity is pretty much backed up by Justine Kipkoech (also-ran in Kenya, gets to US and run 3:32 last year), Vincent Keter (can't make a senior team, but has run 3:31 on DL circuit), Brian Komen (3:28hi after getting increased opportunities last year).
I don't make a habit of calling you racist at all, I think you are *biased* and have some wonky theories and worldview. Ultimately, you love the sport clearly and I don't have a problem with most of your discussions. I wish your sense of humor emerged more often (the Mo Katir running 7:27 in a hailstorm jokes), but it seems like you want to indulge the petty accusatory side more often instead.
Why have my posts in this thread pointing out that Thoughtsleader is a consistent doping apologist, been deleted? Well I know why, because it says - "personal attacks of another forum member". So maybe my question should be - "why is there still no consistent moderation here?" Thoughtsleader can call me a doping 'extremist', a 'racist' and all the rest, contributing to the bullying and stalking I've faced here that has included multiple death threats, but I can't raise a concern about you awarding him a 'best poster' prize? Is it just because I also criticized John Wesley Harding for the same reason, and you've actually got him on your moderation team (which you and your brother appear to have no oversight for)?
To think every prominent African athlete is or was doping, and not a single British one is and none of the all-time greats did feels like an extreme position. I think that being my POV is not some unfair opinion to express. And you can call me a doping apologist if you want, mods don't delete that. I'll respond if you distort the facts or what I've said.
Why have my posts in this thread pointing out that Thoughtsleader is a consistent doping apologist, been deleted? Well I know why, because it says - "personal attacks of another forum member". So maybe my question should be - "why is there still no consistent moderation here?" Thoughtsleader can call me a doping 'extremist', a 'racist' and all the rest, contributing to the bullying and stalking I've faced here that has included multiple death threats, but I can't raise a concern about you awarding him a 'best poster' prize? Is it just because I also criticized John Wesley Harding for the same reason, and you've actually got him on your moderation team (which you and your brother appear to have no oversight for)?
To think every prominent African athlete is or was doping, and not a single British one is and none of the all-time greats did feels like an extreme position. I think that being my POV is not some unfair opinion to express. And you can call me a doping apologist if you want, mods don't delete that. I'll respond if you distort the facts or what I've said.
That’s not the problem. The problem is America is a bigger doping nation than UK, and all the UK’s previous doping busts had been induced directly by Americans, American evil-doers, American organisations. America is the Babylon of Drugs and trained the whole world how to do drugs. Just as Hollywood corrupted the east, so did Babylon Drugs.
And rather than point the finger at nuestra savant grande Coevett, porque no te cuestionas en cuales son dopajadors americanos en este dia? Conoces Shocker y Nuguse? Empezas con esos dos sucios! Gracias 🙏
And Coevett, like Khamis and I, have great moral instincts ahead of the facts. What you don’t see or know with facts is it can be invoked as alibi or evidence by both the good guys and the bad ones thus corrupting the sanctity of doctrine of ‘facts’. It just means facts can be scammed and/or manipulated and disappeared if you fail to wear your damn bible across your forehead! Thus only the goods guys have sole monopoly over good morality this explains why morality must supersede facts all the time!
Thoughtsleader, I’m shocked you got the title as the best commenter because honestly I don’t see anything challenging about your level of posting!! I’m just not challenged IQ wise!
on the other hand, every time I read Khamis posts im breaking into an IQ sweat just deciphering all the advanced metaphysical and physical content.
I gave you so many chances to WOO ME with your IQ posts but it’s ultimately IQ savants like Khamis, Coevett and Armstrongliv that I wanna SAVOR!! 🤭🤭
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None of this matters, the upvotes and downvotes, and how this thread is devolving into a pissing contest about doping. Just congratulate the “winners” and move on.
None of this matters, the upvotes and downvotes, and how this thread is devolving into a pissing contest about doping. Just congratulate the “winners” and move on.
We are too much surprised at the winner of the contest and quibble about whether it might have been a mistake somewhere. Khamis should have been in the top 5 at least as his downvotes were merely incidental upvotes thus upvotes!
None of this matters, the upvotes and downvotes, and how this thread is devolving into a pissing contest about doping. Just congratulate the “winners” and move on.
We are too much surprised at the winner of the contest and quibble about whether it might have been a mistake somewhere. Khamis should have been in the top 5 at least as his downvotes were merely incidental upvotes thus upvotes!
You make no sense. As a true metaphysical giant you would see how trivial upvotes and downvotes are. But you have to troll I know.
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.
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.
I would make a category of posters with the most down votes lol. I mean come on Wejo let's ruin some confidence in people to start out 2025 lol 😂
This can be abused so I don’t look much into downvote and upvotes. I look for intelligence and substance in poster’s brain. Does he have that smarts? That X factor. Khamis has it, RFK has it, Coevett has it, Armstrongliv as well.
im not scared of downvotes, come on dude I’m a darn PHYSICIST! We seen it all in space and time, inside souls and outside. We have qualities that even Google AI doesn’t!👊👊
I agree it was a joke. Because those with very low confidence would be completely upset and the posters with solid maturity and reasonable confidence would simply carry on.
If you consolidate all of my anonymous names id be easily 1,2,3 and proud of it because what this naturally means is all of my points of view have been spot on. Let's be real nobody wants to agree with facts they want to disagree with them. Think of it this way if you play the lottery and you purchased $10,000 worth of Powerball tickets and won $100 bucks back winning a negative profit of 90% but your best friend buys 1 ticket and wins $1.5 billion are you honesty going to be thrilled for him? No your going to down vote him in life behind his back. Jealousy and envy are real things in life and sadly they are out of our control. When people make solid raw points people will naturally disagree they want to believe everything in life is honest and pure when that is only 10% of the surface.
