2022 Is Here- What do you want to see on LetsRun this year?

Sub forums where you can find similar threads in one place....standard practice for forums

Less pop up ads

Editing ability

Ability to search and sort by poster

etc etc...all the stuff that a forum of 2002 should have been able to do...and

....less trolling threads by rojo

wejo wrote:

colder and wiser wrote:A functional survey widget

Can you explain more?

Some forum software (such as Simple Machines) supports user-posted surveys. The users can set up the question wording and categories. Responses then include both voting in the survey and discussion of the survey. Two nice features are that it actually tabulates responses so you can see the breakdown of answers, and you can limit responses to one vote per registered user.

I also vote for ruthless deletion of comments bumping old threads in order to drop links to commercial sites, especially unrelated ones. You know, things like "I also agree that Ben Johnson was wrongfully accused of doping in 1988. Did you know that an essay writing service is an effective method of raising students' grades?

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an "original post date" on the thread list. Right next to the last post.

I'm sick of opening 8 year old threads that were bumped by bots.

wejo wrote:

I know the New Year has been here for a few days but today was the first day back to work for everyone.So what would you like to see on LetsRun in 2022. I'm open to all suggestions.Maybe we'll commit to doing one or two things in this thread.

Less stupid BS from your brother Robert. He’s the worst part about your website.

Can you commit to that?

asking again... wrote:

an "original post date" on the thread list. Right next to the last post.

I'm sick of opening 8 year old threads that were bumped by bots.

for example, I just checked. There is currently a thread on page 1 that is 11 years old and about celery that was bumped by a spammer.

Michael Smores wrote:

wejo wrote:

I know the New Year has been here for a few days but today was the first day back to work for everyone.So what would you like to see on LetsRun in 2022. I'm open to all suggestions.Maybe we'll commit to doing one or two things in this thread.

Less stupid BS from your brother Robert. He’s the worst part about your website.

Can you commit to that?

Tough love on this thread. Unfortunately it needs to be said.

And PLEASE change the logo on the forum page to your new one. That should have happened when you decided to get a new logo on the front page.

I can dream too wrote:

Michael Smores wrote:

Less stupid BS from your brother Robert. He’s the worst part about your website.

Can you commit to that?

Tough love on this thread. Unfortunately it needs to be said.

And PLEASE change the logo on the forum page to your new one. That should have happened when you decided to get a new logo on the front page.

Too bad Weldon will delete my comment without responding to it

I know I’m wasting my breath, but the one thing I would most like to see is rojo banned from posting.

RoJo only allowed to post running related things. No politics, COVID, random threads about things he read in some rag newspaper, various other trolling, etc.

tough love wrote:

RoJo only allowed to post running related things. No politics, COVID, random threads about things he read in some rag newspaper, various other trolling, etc.

They will delete your comment without responding to jt

I liked the celery thread and a lot of the old threads are great, why should it matter if it's from 8 days ago or 8 years ago?

More posts and threads started by Wejo. Seriously, they add to the quality of this site.

He tends to dial down the temperature with reasonable posts.

Greater monitoring and better direction for the moderators.

_ wrote:

I liked the celery thread and a lot of the old threads are great, why should it matter if it's from 8 days ago or 8 years ago?

There's nothing inherently wrong with them. I like some old threads too. That's why I asked for a timestamp and not an outright lock-down/delete of old threads.

I can dream too wrote:

I would like to see a running website with less right wing propaganda and antivaxxer BS threads.

Of course that will never happen.

We can but dream.

Fewer NRR political threads or grievance topics, or at least consolidate them. Separate all these threads into a NRR section so that letsrunners interested in running topics don't have to wade thru the garbage.

More good reporting on the front page. I feel like there has been some great stuff to read there in the past year and look forward to more.

Maybe find a way to engage more elites, sub-elites, former/retired world class runners & coaches, college coaches & top college athletes, etc, and get their participation on the boards. My impression is that there was more of that in years past; it would be great to have more posters like Malmo, Renato, and Sage.

I can dream too wrote:

I would like to see a running website with less right wing propaganda and antivaxxer BS threads.

Of course that will never happen.

This would be good.

I'd make serious suggestions and have before, even linking a site that I would like to see this place formatted like, deleted. People are friendly on the other side, except in the off-topic section. You can PM people and stuff. It makes it less anonymous which is why I think it's more friendly. Mandatory registration with small profiles, but not with real names. It's charming, unlike this place.

More interviews with athletes, and try to ask some good questions. Bring more awareness to some athletes, there are a lot of pretty fast people who don't quite win races but are always right there and I know nothing about them. Someone woman runs a 15:18 post college? Interview her. Some guy that not many people know randomly runs a 62:00 half marathon? Interview him. How long does that even take? People won't care about all of the interviews, but everyone will probably care about one of them. These people might not be nationally known (yet) but they're probably well known in their state or even their region of the country.

Everything else is good.