sayerofsayings wrote:
Thugz life wrote:This message board is true trash
Your welcome
This is a great message board. By and large it is wholesome discussion. People fixate on the bad things and take things too personally. Feeling outraged is encouraged in this day and age, I suppose.
Some things are great about it. I've never encountered anything like it in terms of discussion of the sport, specifically distance discussion, which I love.
I will say, I think I tend to swerve away from the mostly conservative leanings of people on this board, but I don't particulary have a problem with that. I love differences of opinion. Despite the comments of someone above, I actually don't love political correctness. Where I get annoyed are the insults, the hatred of other people, etc. I know most conservatives, or liberals for that matter, aren't like that. I guess it's the noisy, immature members of the board that stick out, but God, they literally stick out like a sore thumb sometimes.
My two biggest problems with the crowd on here, and why sometimes I consider just staying on the front page to get running news: misogyny and racism. I think those are the two biggest specters of the LR message board. Yes, there's tons of athlete-bashing and everyone thinks everyone is doping, but that comes along with sports discussion. Racism and misogyny don't.
Yes, I do think in general men post more often on message boards and men follow sports more often than women do, but I've been on tons of MBs where way more females post than here. And I guarantee you at least 75% of the women who DO post on here I'm sure keep their gender a secret, since undoubtedly if they let it become public, they'd become harassed. In this sense, this board reminds me of the gaming community, although that's largely more misogynistic than racist.
But then again, I'm just a "PC cuck"....