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

Rick Cheney wrote:

erik wrote:

Yes, the entire message board will be in the same layout as the rest of the site.also, improved link embeds that don’t rely on an outside service.

MAYBE ADD SOME MORE ADVERTISING ON THE FORUM

Yes, more advertising would be great.

jewbacca wrote:

va coach wrote:

Even more seriously, the tidal waves of right wing misinformation damage the overall credibility of the entire site.

This is the #1 reason I don't come here much anymore. The site has gone from right-wing to alt-right, and it's run the message boards to ruin. Now I check news maybe once a week and read through the message board a bit less often than that.

Same. There is no reason to visit the site anymore, unless you want to laugh at the latest alt-right lies and derangement. Sports forums typically slant in that direction at default, due to heavy percentage of young white right wing males. This site was midrange in the category many years ago. Now it is the absolute worst. There are college football sites operated by extreme right wingers who recently and reluctantly realized they were allowing too much, and took steps to restore content recognizable toward the theme of the site. This board has done nothing of the sort. It is a free for all of filth. And that only happens when the administrators are so brainwashed in the same direction they have lost all competence in evaluating any related topic. Pure nutcase sounds reasonable to them.

The upvote/downvote aspect will make things even worse. College football sites with that feature are notorious for right wing posters who pass around hit lists via private message, directing their flock to relentlessly downvote every post by a non-righty, along with negative reputation. It becomes a farce. The highest rated posters are the birtherism types, and so forth.

You'll see what I mean, when the feature is enabled here, even if there isn't private messaging. The caliber of post will have no relationship to the upvote/downvote ratio.

The ability to edit a post should have been available long ago, even for a brief window. Typically the best application is when it's open just long enough to fix an obvious typo or similar. On a sports (ha) site you don't want it open long enough to edit predictions or opinions after the fact.

Enough of it wrote:

Wejo/Rojo why do you tolerate Rojo Bot? It's stupid. He's got mental issues.

Please ban Rojo Bot or confine it to its own thread. It's irritating to have it showing up on other threads.

I think LRC needs more original content instead of just link-gathering. Honestly, Merber's Lap Count newsletter is doing a lot of what LRC does, and he's doing it a lot better - and seemingly on a part-time basis! He's covering international races, writing summaries in a distinctive style that is recognisably him (not just a dry "and then this happened" report), and he's getting Q&As with athletes that are short and interesting (two this week alone). LRC is in danger of becoming just a message board that is a sinkhole for the worst people in the college system.

Yeah agree. The downvote feature will lead to very obvious right wing brigading. That's their M.O.

erik wrote:

Just to chime in, we'll soon be launching a good overhaul to the forum software.Including upvote/downvote button, running only filter for the threads, category-specific filters for the forum indices, a more robust reporting system that includes forum rules, public forum moderation statistics, a menu for logged in users to access recently visited threads & replies, a block button for annoying users, a better post editor (scroll the thread while writing, basic richtext), fixed nested blockquotes that are easier to read, long blockquotes getting truncated but can be expanded, posts get ranked in threads, deleted posts show a placeholder, improved forum thread and index pagination, and a bunch of other stuff I can't remember.

Thanks dude. Any idea if an edit post feature will be enabled?

colder and wiser wrote:

Enough of it wrote:

Wejo/Rojo why do you tolerate Rojo Bot? It's stupid. He's got mental issues.

Please ban Rojo Bot or confine it to its own thread. It's irritating to have it showing up on other threads.

Who?

Better integration of the shoe database into the rest of the site. I’d like to use it but find it difficult to navigate. If there were some way to have a link on the home page or message board saying something like — “currently red hot on the shoe database — Nike invincible” — I’d be more likely to visit the database and, importantly to the letsrun bottom line, buy shoes through your site.

It also would be cool to have a database of good runs/trails across the US. Click on a map on the site around, say, Charleston SC, and you get a message board type discussion of the best places to run nearby.

colder and wiser wrote:

Enough of it wrote:

Wejo/Rojo why do you tolerate Rojo Bot? It's stupid. He's got mental issues.

Please ban Rojo Bot or confine it to its own thread. It's irritating to have it showing up on other threads.

if it's a Bot that's posting, then the fault lies with the message board software

please tell me the upvote/downvote thing won't dictate the default sorting. i hate reddit comments that are just stupid unoriginal puns or pop culture references that get top comment. it's boring and predictable. i like how letsrun is always sorted by new. yes, it means you take the good with the bad, but it also avoids the hivemind BS

Little Dicky Pound wrote:

I can dream too wrote:

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

Of course that will never happen.

This would be good.

I agree and I fixed his bias.

Sorting will remain chronological. I was unclear when I said "posts will be ranked" -- what I meant is that each post is numbered (1, 2, 3, 4...) and labeled so it makes it easy to respond and identify specific posts. 

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.

Can you please moderate the main forum to include only running, running-related, or closely running adjacent threads?

E.g., Effects of covid infection on cardiovascular health = OK. Is covid real = no.

No more straight politics threads.

No more musings/questions about life from incels.

This may already happen but I don't know.

A LetsRun awards show with voting from the anonymous trolls to pick the winners. Runner of the year. Track athlete of the year. Field athlete. High School... etc, etc.

Possibility of editing a post for at least 15 minutes.

Ban rojo from posting anything about what he saw an TV, anything political or social, anything about his own ideas. Do not let rojo or wejo post without the post being edited for their numerous spelling and grammar errors by a competent English speaker. If the owners don't care then I really don't, but this website is a laughingstock and will be until it is run at a professional level.

snooker wrote:

Ban rojo from posting anything about what he saw an TV, anything political or social, anything about his own ideas. Do not let rojo or wejo post without the post being edited for their numerous spelling and grammar errors by a competent English speaker. If the owners don't care then I really don't, but this website is a laughingstock and will be until it is run at a professional level.

You are not expecting that things will change, right?