My Solution to the False Start Problem (keep in mind I am high right now)

I don't even know where to start.

I mean maybe there are some practical problems, measuring an athlete exactly 3 meters back, but it’s kind of cool

What if two people false start? It would be impossible for two runners to both start 3 meters behind everyone else.

How many lines will there need to be on the track? How many possible false starts to you want to account for with your system?

It's genius with a small tweak. The penalty at 100m should only be 1m. Some facilities don't have much space behind the normal starting line. For distance races 10m would work similarly.

Official can have a meter stick or a 3-meter length of twine, and a roll of athletic tape or some bleached flour, and can plop down the new line haphazardly however (s)he sees fit, we all don’t need to go crazy stressing about it.

You are allowed ten false starts; after that you are disqualified not for false starting but for preventing the start of the race.

I like that you tried to come up with a new system but unfortunately people would just false start all of the time like we used to see. Sprints taking huge amounts of time, people standing around. Also messes up the results for everyone else. People start converting their times and saying the winner isn't really the winner (or another place) as if they hadn't started three metres back they would have won, etc.

I’d rather hear “[champ] might not have won if [false starter] hadn’t had to start 3m back” than “[champ] might not have won if [false starter] hadn’t been kicked out of the state for twitching while holding his body up on eight fingers”

I wouldn't! One is a race with eight people. One is a race with seven people as he is removed before the race restarts. But we are all different. Many people might prefer your approach? Maybe sprinters would prefer it? Would have to ask them :)

I kinda like it.

Imagine Usain Bolt false starting 3x, spotting the field like 10 meters only just to blow their doors off lol

Rojo has been proposing this exact thing for years.

Of course the OP stole this idea from the other thread.

Maybe so, but did Rojo's plan include the length of twine and bleached flour?