The best thing this forum has going is the “Only show running threads” filter. LRC needs more filters to let the obtuse chuckleheads echo among themselves with their incessant drivel.
Rather than have the main page include everything, separate out the non-running related threads into their own section (similar to the Lavender Room on SlowTwitch). It is such a turnoff to have random unrelated threads be the first thing you see on here.
The running only filter was a good first step, maybe you could at least make it the default?
Have a section on the main page for an "Injury of the Month" where you link to the good existing threads on various injuries. Include links to articles, maybe interview an expert on the injury, a bunch of ways you could go. Randomly pick the injury or have people give suggestions. Examples:
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.
Were you on our conference call today? I swear this was discussed. Maybe you've mentioned it before and Jon Gault saw it?
Troof Soshul wrote:
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.
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.
1) we're always working on #1. 2) I think we should commit to more interviews outside of races. In terms of covering the sport I don't think anyone does a better job than us in terms of previewing races, analyzing them, etc. It's actually not done much by others at all anymore.5) The LA guy is banned every single time and there are multiple filters in place for him but he is adept at VPNs, etc.
Mike Hock wrote:
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 feel like we recap and preview nearly every single major race. Which ones are we missing? I guess we could do road us champs, etc.
What's the ugali workshop? Like how to make it?
RunnerSam wrote:
Have a section on the main page for an "Injury of the Month" where you link to the good existing threads on various injuries. Include links to articles, maybe interview an expert on the injury, a bunch of ways you could go. Randomly pick the injury or have people give suggestions. Examples: Upper Hamstring Tendinopathy Extensor Tendonitis Plantar Fasciitis Athletic Pubalgia
Wow. I really like this idea. I may make this my personal resolution for 2023. Can you come up with 12 injuries or maybe we just do 6?
Rick Cheney wrote:
I wouldn’t change a thing. Love this place. Love you all!!!
We like it too, but if you don't upkeep your house it becomes dilapidated.
Is like to see why I was banned permanently on my other device despite never posting anything ban worthy. And then posters who are only here to troll like uncle, Dan M, etc post whatever, whenever.
I'm ok with threads that aren't about running if they are interesting or funny, etc. That quirkiness is part of what makes LRC fun.
BUT... there some topics that have already been discussed to death, where new threads are basically spam (trans-gender participation in sports is one example). It would be far better to push all of those into a single unified thread that minimizes the footprint on the first page of the message board -- much as you do for presidential politics.
- It would be great to expand the podcast interviews to a wider range of people. I think Cram and Hutchings would be great interviews. I'd love to hear more from international athletes if their English is good enough -- perhaps Sifan Hasan, definitely Jakob I; I'd love to hear from top Kenyan runners or coaches to get more insight into the world of Kenyan distance running; David Rudisha would be amazing.
- fix the website bug where some posts display twice (like mine, above)
If this site were just running I’d still visit but only about 1/5th the time. Stop buckling to the snowflakes that go crazy if any opinion different from their own is expressed and instead remind people that it is their choice to open a particular thread and to read comments.
Let more of the heated (and interesting) threads fly… more threads on global warming, trans athletes, vaccine injury, and who shot JR would be super.