Back to work everyone: What do you want to see on LetsRun in 2023 ?

End the LetsBullySeth thread. It serves no purpose except to encourage anti-social behaviour.

The mods need to stop deleting every thread that is even remotely funny.

A comprehensive in-depth exposé on the dangers of Covid mRNA vaccines with emphasis on their detriment to athletic performance.

2023 is the year the truth comes out. Get with the winning team.

Your opportunity for LetsRun to gain credibility as serious investigative journalism.

Better coverage of the recent doping busts. You should have some kind of database of who is suspended, what they were suspended for, who their coach, agent, and training groups are.

Less: Rojo Diarrhea posts. Zillow postings from lonely individuals who will never buy a home. Deleted comments in the thread where you highlight the openness of the site.

More: running

More uniform moderation and less censorship

Stop letting the same few posters derail every remotely interesting thread. I cannot tell you how many good threads about training get derailed by "Magic Coach JS" with pages upon pages of garbage, cluttering relevant pieces of information.

And the same 3-4 posters have turned so many threads into their own personal playground to argue about doping for 20+ pages, you know who these people are. A couple of idiots shouldn't be allowed to ruin every good discussion about training/racing. Give them their own doping thread or something to yell into the abyss.

1. CONSISTENT MODERATION and TRANSPARENT MODERATION

2. The journalistic side of LRC needs to do a better job of covering the sport and writing about it. Get more interviews and do stronger analysis. The front page is mostly aggregated articles and that makes sense. Where it falls apart is when the "journalism" is just hot takes/opinions or low effort nostalgia pieces. If Chris Chavez and Kyle Merber can get interviews and quotes, you can too.

3. The ability for posters to edit their own posts

4. To point #1, keep the board tidier and more focused. Eliminate multiple threads on the same topic. Only allow threads that have a defined discussion topic and universal interest. They don't all have to be running threads but the board gets too gunked up with stuff like "New Edmonton City Councilor Doesn't Get It!" and "Anyone Else Drinking Alone Tonight?". Much of the anti-social behavior comes from threads that are designed solely for individual attention and that invite flame wars. Politics, social issues, and non-running topics are fine. Just eliminate the arcane personal beefs, attention whoring, and blatant group trolling.

5. Suspend or ban the "one trick pony" posters. I use as examples the guy that always posts crap like "USATF/NASA/Apple/YouTube/Adult Video Industry Must Build XR Virtual Track & Field Complex in World's Media and Fast Twitch Capital of Los Angeles" or the guy on the Seth James Demoor thread that can only post something about Garth Brooks. It's neither funny nor does it add anything to the conversation.

More training philosophy and logs and critical analysis of approaches, with outcomes. (at various levels)

A professional editor for rojo.

Less deletion of posts that are inoffensive, while other more offensive ones remain.

PLEASE no more covid or transgender threads!!

More race recaps. More pro training advice.

Injury advice with a sports physio.

Race interviews from the past, with the winners saying their racecraft.

Ugali workshop. (Online).

I want to see less garbage from Rojo.

His argument that anything he writes about is relevant because it's what he likes to talk about on runs just doesn't hold any water at all, and you know it. For one, Rojo doesn't run anymore

1. You have to get control over the mods again.

2. Better grammar.

3. Better spelling.

Same sentiment, but going beyond running topics. The policy of a single official thread on controversial running and non-running topics should be more widely used and enforced.

It's an imperfect way to discourage bad actors, but clear policy is easier to moderate and it's better than letting the ideological warriors piss on everything.

You can block people you know?

"ideological warriors" = people you don't agree with