1st ever - LetsRun.com Posts of the Week

Big fan of you, Wejo. Honored to have the post of the week.

Email me please wejo@letsrun.com 

"Post of the Week" will last two to three weeks, then you'll get tired of doing it. This happened before in some form (can't remember what you called it).

This is really a popularity contest. This is indeed proving the point about groupthink. Sad…

We have private ways to see top posts but we’ll likely add a top rated post list similar to the top 10 popular threads. That way we don’t have to rely on wejo or rojo.

This rules.

The process could pretty easily be automated. Seems like a pretty simple program could look up upvote/downvote counts and spit out a thread once per week saying "The most upvoted post was by X on the thread Y. It said Z." and so on.

I would also be willing to donate $100 to the LR supporter's club or whatever they call it if they made Rojo do this programming and provided a livestream of his efforts.

Good direction you're taking! Like building in structure without the appearance of structure.

I hope you can find ways to help encourage more constructive discussions, eg. conversations that enter into topics with the idea to share and develope ideas rather than feud and bicker. I came here with the idea that I shared a love of something, running, with a group of fellow enthusiasts and Iike to hear everything that comes under the heading of friendly exchange of experiences and knowledge--not to cross swords with random political soldiers.

Be careful or you'll be nominated for next weeks POW.

Never thought I’d have the most downvoted post in letsrun history. Do I get a prize for most downvoted post? And how long until rojo breaks my record?

This result was an indictment of the idea. Seriously? The best post of the week by this metric is that they combine the world's top talent and hard work?? Come on, man! You're better than that. Not only is it obviously false, since they don't get anywhere close to the best talent in the world--and don't product the best outcomes--but everyone knows already that they get good American talent and train hard--that's the most obvious platitude in the running community.

That should say, "and don't produce ..."

If you want to improve the boards, allow editing of posts.

"train hard" is the standard deflection from doping suspicion. Some of us understand that doping is about being able to train harder without injury, some don't.

I refuse to recognize these threads as popular, because unregistered posters were allowed to vote. You want to vote, you register. These are hobby jogger opinions.

I appreciate people found my post useful. Didn't realize it was so heavily upvoted.

I probably have the most total downvotes, wheres my free pair of ON shoes

I thought this was clever so I upvoted it. I see others are downvoting

With a night of sleep you deserve a free pair of On shoes as well.

Your points were well though out, you didn’t trash anyone, and you used the word discus.

you made me think ‘oh maybe we shouldn’t have the voting

Love this idea. Hopefully will be motivation for people to post thoughtful responses to have more of those and less trolling. Maybe we shouldn't advertise the "most downvoted" post to not give any motivation to the trolls :)

I sense a Reddit type attack on certain post. Posts with no real value that are up or down voted just to make the silly weekly leaderboard. Now if we could find a way to monetize.