Sabrina Little (iRunFar) critiques the World Famous Message Board

Who is actually going to read all that drivel?!?!

Yo, Sabrina, in the words of one Dave Chappelle

"WRAP IT UP!"

Comment section pointing out irunfar lives in a glass house.

She makes too many false assumptions. Also, the other message board she is talking about is her own platform, irunfar.com. They used to bash Jim Walmsley- he was too feeble minded; too fast; too weak; not the right physique; and they got called out and exposed and changed their policies. I stopped posted years ago after the “leaders” of the site continued to denigrate Walmsley.

I haven’t met a runner that has not visited Letsrun. Little is not an active participant so I understand the passive aggressiveness.

I like the anonymity. I provide information on the monthly that are insights of the run world no one knows about.

I saw that.

Irunfar has a bunch of "writers" who come up with the weirdest of stuff. Made up statistics, an aged out runner with replaced hips and knees drooling about Western States for the umpteen time and many others. The best is probably the weekly update.

And then there is Megan the badass bouncer over the comment section.

Oh boy, I love the anonymous message board here. It's not perfect but it is anonymous and the truth gets out here between the drivel. You just have to pick and choose.

Registration doesn't stop people talkin sh!t tho does it?

There are paragraphs about how good anonymity can be. And then it talks about how to keep using them…This is not against anonymous message boards. Did you read it?

I actually thought it was interesting. It’s obviously not an original concept that anonymity can be bad, but she does acknowledge how good it is as well. She’s is just being soft though. It is extremely rare that I read something here that is truly offensive and if I do it always gets deleted.

David Roche owns the letsrun losers as well. Pure ownage he does to the people here.

Think about all the people coming to this board for the first time and see all the insane political BS, terrible opinions, and down right hate and decide to never come back.

It's probably a lot of people, but the brojos don't seem to care.

Obviously I understand the downsides of a board like this but its also the only place i've found that has truly unfiltered discussion about running

I read her article....it's more of an opinion piece than anything else.

Ultimately, it comes down to her opinion of what is morally good vs morally bad.

She wants to control speech that she finds offensive and non-constructive.

Run as far away from this type of argument, as it ostensibly seems well-intentioned but in reality, goes against the 1st amendment.

The point of civility is to preserve free speech not get rid of it. This is not anti-free speech

I can't tell if you idiots didn't read the piece or have terrible reading comprehension. She literally writes about the positives and negatives of anonymity on the internet and then describes some possible options going forward, including preserving anonymity. Gotta tell you, it's hard to support freedom of speech when there are so many lazy idiots out there...

Did you read the part where she says no one visits these boards?

When neurodivergent persons are unable to understand subtle forms of humor their inability to communicate with anything but infantile and emotionally immature responses can lead to low levels of user interaction.

i thought her article was OK, but kinda barfed a little bit when she suggests people come here to be a „moral buoy“.

Like, I come for people‘s funny sense of humor. And for the interesting things. And intelligent things.

But god help me, i don‘t want people to drum up some phony positivity and sunny outlooks. Aren‘t we already drowning in that crap everywhere else in life?

I read "moral buoy" as "not using anonymity as a cover for being an ass. It's possible to engage civilly while vehemently disagreeing.

The BroJos have claimed they want this forum to be a conversation like you'd have with your running buddies. But your running buddies are anything but anonymous and unaccountable which definitely affects the tone of social interaction.

Being a "moral buoy" then really means behaving on an anonymous message board as you would if it weren't anonymous. There are a lot of posters here who do just that, at least when they post under their registered userids.

Reddit has become insufferable and many people finally realized it/left because of commie minded moderators controlling everyone's speech. Subreddits became a circle jerk/echo chamber which ostracized and shunned away anyone with an open mind. That mimics the democratic/liberal reality--they want narrow minded yes men and women. Eventually they all grow tired of only hearing their own kinds predictable drivel. They just parrot what the media and government want and tell them to think. This place ain't bad because it actually, for the most part, enables freedom of expression rather than the self serving communist mind control that has extrapolated over other media platforms.

The difference having a conversation at a run with your running buddies is, that once you said it, it's gone.

In the internet, everything stays. So even if you act like a "moral buoy" you don't want to have all that talk out there in the public forever.