What’s is LetsRun article on The Harrier

rojo wrote:

LRC rules clearly state:

You understand that LetsRun.com does not pre-screen content but it may remove content at its sole discretion for any reason whatsoever.

So in reality, we were following the rules.

How nice for you. You wrote a rule that says you can do whatever you want, so by definition it's impossible for you to break the rules no matter what you do.

But how are we the posters supposed to play by the rules when the rule is that you can delete whatever you want for any reason without explaining what that reason is? The #1 rule as far as I can tell is that any post asking to understand why a post was deleted is automatically deleted. Incredibly frustrating as a poster to not know what the rules are, to have threads deleted with no explanation given. How am I supposed to know what the rules are when they are never explained?

That's why I almost never post anymore. I'm tired of wasting my time writing out what I think is a carefully considered post and then having the whole thread deleted with no explanation at all. Not going to waste my time putting any effort into something that can be arbitrarily deleted for no reason at all. Only posts I'll make are low-effort ones now.

Flew the coop wrote:

rojo wrote:

I spent 40 minutes on the phone today with a person upset with our moderation policy. It was a great conversation.

Let me guess, was it Stoppit Smith?

😂😂😂

Shabadon't wrote:

I can totally sympathize with the notion that it's virtually impossible to censor everything with a limited staff and budget. That's undeniable.

What IS really annoying is when posts get deleted for absolutely no reason other than (presumably) the personal feelings of one or more moderators. I'm talking about things that aren't even "hot-button" topics or controversial in any way, and don't contain any foul language, private information, etc, getting mysteriously disappeared with no explanation. I think many of us have had that experience. It gives me the feeling that the moderator in question must have the opposite opinion to me on that particular topic, and just deletes my post because if he can't "win" the argument, he'll just delete his opponent's views (and I say "he" confidently, because let's face it, it's a he).

THAT type of petty censorship is annoying AF.

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rojo wrote:

Runner10287 wrote:

Most likely

Yes .

Come one, dude. I 100% get that Mike is incredibly annoying, clearly has his own issues, and probably doesn't care that you posted this, but there's no need to be outing people like that. Same with the random way you announce posters' IP locations sometime.

800 dude wrote:

rojo wrote:

Yes .

Come one, dude. I 100% get that Mike is incredibly annoying, clearly has his own issues, and probably doesn't care that you posted this, but there's no need to be outing people like that. Same with the random way you announce posters' IP locations sometime.

I agree 100%. It's extremely immature what the Brojo's do with these IP location look ups/ announcements. One of many reasons why letsrun is not as successful as it could be.

And THAT is the main reason why letsrun is not as successful as it could be.

The randomness of post deletion is just weird.

imagine talking to stoppit smith on the phone for 2 hours im howling

oops it was 40 minutes but still. that call should be hung up in less than 2 minutes

I like that about it, and I'm slow AF.

I know when I post I'll get some troll responses but then some genuinely good responses that help the training. It teaches you to grow a thick skin and filter out the BS, yet gives you free solid advice to take away for your training. That's still a value-added proposition there.

So the key is to just ignore the idiots but truly find the good nuggets and yes, constructive criticism here. I can tell you some of the advice here has helped my running since 2018.