coach deez nuts wrote:
bigtool05 wrote:You guys who think it might be an April Fools joke realize how f*cking stupid that would be? Like what exactly would the joke be? A runner said he was doing a race that he actually wasn't doing? Wow he sure got us!
NEVER FORGET THE BOWERMAN 5K FIASCO!!!!
holy shit. I just happened to browse letsrun, after a long time away. Anyways, I was the one who started that fiasco, although I really didn't start it - I just highlighted the brojo's flawed system, whereby you can put ANYTHING you want on the frontpage. I remember it, news of the event was hard to come by, and people were dying to believe in Alan Webb again. People invest so much into hero's, they want to believe so badly, to have a victory for themselves through some hero who they believe represents them in some abstract way. Anyways, I created a thread called ALAN WEBB 13:07 BOWERMAN!!! - something to that effect, and opened it up on my computer, possibly about 200-300 times, at least, probably more, in 20-25 mins. Thus, given their archaic formula on what they present on the front page, which is setup by SUPER HOT: you can pick any thread you wish to go to the front page. Not sure if they still use the same algorithm, but it was a lot of fun, although most of all it spotlighted the Brojo's lack of control on what makes it to the front page. Never Forget.