Official thread to discuss moderation policies

Toadlips wrote:

I read the thread, and Coevett reacted in surprise to the "dildo" quote that was attributed to him, so it does not appear that he was the source. It's easy to attribute a bogus quote to someone else. Unless someone can find Coevett's original post, it seems you've been taken in by a troll.

Yes, the "dildo" quote was said *to* Coevett, not by him, and the "Suck the truth" guy (i.e. same guy as "tempaccountforsomeBS") who keeps repeating it is just an attention seeking troll.

Russkie trolls are a problem. I think that one of the options in the "report a post" should be "Troll". You can then look at the submitting address and/or history of the user account to help weed things. If suspicious you can also require them to register before "reposting" and check it then?

I have an idea on how to improve.

Registered User names must not be offensive.

In my screenplay thread for example (now locked)

https://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=9485903&page=1

, the final post comes from

a user with a name I don't care for.

I reported the post though it's still up.

Mod's might not understand why the post was reported.

Someone else mentioned an explanation for reporting posts.

That would help.

There is another user on page one of that thread who's username contains a sexual overtone.

A thread was just started by (you guessed it) an unregistered user.

'They are the whiniest bunch'.

I'd say everything points towards mandatory registration.

You're offended by my name and reported a post in which I carefully gave you detailed advice about how you might increase your chances of selling your tv script? I won't make that mistake again.

Greg wrote:

I have an idea on how to improve.

Registered User names must not be offensive.

In my screenplay thread for example (now locked) the final post comes from

a user with a name I don't care for.

I reported the post though it's still up.

Mod's might not understand why the post was reported.

Geez, I know, you meanie head, you.

coach wrote:

tempaccountforsomeBS wrote:

ok great, so you've given an explanation for one post, even if it seems a bit BS.

What is your explanation for all the other posts that were not in the Trump thread? All the ones that you refused to delete for days while deleting every complaint about them almost instantly? The one celebrating the Mexican 'beaner' skewered on steel piece of rebar for example....or the one making a lynching joke....

Malmo, fair enough. But this poster is correct. Too many vile posts attacking ethnicity, orientation, color and religion are not deleted.

Why do we need political threads on Let's Run.com? Unless they have something to do with athletics they seem out of place.

We could have a special category called "Registered users only."

I push this because I think it's the only logical change you can make at this point.

Let's Run.com is the best website of it's kind in the world. We do have to allow everyone

to use the other categories. Perhaps getting rid of politics, haters, romance, and other things not related

to sport is impossible. Plus some of them are interesting. (I do not think I have ever, in 5 years, went to

a political post. My memory may be short. But by and large I am not interested.)

Of course we have to realize that change may require LRC to hire more employees and spend

more money. I think you have a good thing going now. LRC has improved vastly in the last 3 years.

run with the wom wrote:

Russkie trolls are a problem. I think that one of the options in the "report a post" should be "Troll". You can then look at the submitting address and/or history of the user account to help weed things. If suspicious you can also require them to register before "reposting" and check it then?

NO! Anything and everything on LRC has been called a troll.

Some of the best original threads are boycotted because someone calls it a troll.

If there is a report a post for Troll, there also should be one for A Person Who Calls Troll.

I'm betting the latter gets called twice as often.

I'd be for the first 3.

Kickapoo wrote:

We could have a special category called "Registered users only."

I push this because I think it's the only logical change you can make at this point.

This is actually a great idea. I'd probably never visit that section, but it would cut down on people advocating censorship on the main page if the easily offended had their own safe space.

Kickapoo wrote:

We could have a special category called "Registered users only."

I push this because I think it's the only logical change you can make at this point.

Let's Run.com is the best website of it's kind in the world. We do have to allow everyone

to use the other categories. Perhaps getting rid of politics, haters, romance, and other things not related

to sport is impossible. Plus some of them are interesting. (I do not think I have ever, in 5 years, went to

a political post. My memory may be short. But by and large I am not interested.)

Of course we have to realize that change may require LRC to hire more employees and spend

more money. I think you have a good thing going now. LRC has improved vastly in the last 3 years.

I enjoy responding to posts by kids and others who are new here and aren't registered asking for advice about strength training, mobility, injuries and running. I dont mind unregistered users for these reasons as often they sincerely want advice.

And every once in a while I want to read what the average person feels about politics, investing, career opportunities or other issues (assuming they're sincere). I'm old but the hate still shocks me.

IF a TROLL is going to be eliminated, or a thread deleted because it was started by an alleged TROLL, then there must be a LRC definition of Troll. Right now we have multiple definitions of TROLL.

I have never started a hater thread against supposed drug cheaters. Now if that's not a TROLL, I don't know what is!

Everyone wants responses to their thread. If that's a TROLL I stand guilty. But why have LRC if you do not want

posts. Everyone should want posts. We want good questions and answers for them.

I see a lot of very good threads being ignored completely by LRC posters. Some were mine, many more were not.

Hoser, eh wrote:

You're offended by my name and reported a post in which I carefully gave you detailed advice about how you might increase your chances of selling your tv script? I won't make that mistake again.

Greg wrote:

I have an idea on how to improve.

Registered User names must not be offensive.

In my screenplay thread for example (now locked) the final post comes from

a user with a name I don't care for.

I reported the post though it's still up.

Mod's might not understand why the post was reported.

Yes, I clicked on the thread and thought that the offending post must have been deleted. Your post was in-depth and clearly intended to be helpful. The guy is either a very good troll or a lunatic.

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Hi Wejo,

This thread is a good example of why registration needs to be mandatory.

https://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=9485785&page=1

That is not true. The original now deleted post was linked here a couple of times already, and the various search engines will keep that in their cache for quite while.

See for example here:

Interestingly, one can see that some posts on that page were deleted, but not this one:

Yet, malmo prefers to attack the posters who point out racists' posts while defending the racist, a la

But he is also on record with:

Noting all those posts were proven today, well, we'll see how malmo will attack me now to deflect from his own statements.

And continue to use Coevett "as an example of malicious character assasination".

casual obsever wrote:

Hardloper wrote:

Yes, the "dildo" quote was said *to* Coevett, not by him, and the "Suck the truth" guy (i.e. same guy as "tempaccountforsomeBS") who keeps repeating it is just an attention seeking troll.

That is not true. The original now deleted post was linked here a couple of times already, and the various search engines will keep that in their cache for quite while.

See for example here:

Yes, you're right. I could only find a partial cached copy without formatting which made it appear that the post was written by "Coefart." I didn't think to try Bing, good work.

malmo's right. This is nuts, for someone who "actually doesn't have a problem of racists posting here":

casual obsever wrote:

Quite frankly, you should have the decency to step down instead of still pretending that those posts may not be real. Short of that, the owners should fire you.

All your saved quotes leave out some context:

- malmo said he didn't see all those posts, and these posts were not what he was "defending"

- malmo does not have the power to ban posters anyway

- regardless of Coevett's racist status, people do play the "racist" card (including Coevett) to avoid real discussion

My two cents. Everyone seems to placing a lot of blame on moderators, but I think there should be some personal accountability for what people post. It is not the fault of moderators, that some small percentage of posters cannot control themselves and remain civil. These TOS are clear enough:

Guidelines for posts: Be civil- While we don't pre-screen content we want to have a community where ideas are exchanged in a civil manner and people feel open to post. Please be civil and use the report a post function.

Types of posts that will be removed: a) Violent/Pornographic posts Posts that encourage violence, abuse or harrassment will be removed. Posts with graphic violence or adult content will be removed. b) Hateful conduct: Posts that threaten, or harass other people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, or disability will be removed.

Those of us who are adults should set an example for young adults who may wander here. As wejo once said "it's fine to disagree with someone just don't be a jerk about it".

There is a real thing called cyberbullying, and can be harmful for those who are young and impressionable.