What is the most basic reason for the success of the LetsRun web site?

Probably the best thing is being able to come and talk about Bekele(although some people without brains will saw negative stuff about him). I like to think that I bring the place to life, with my witty puns.

Banana Bread wrote:

Probably the best thing is being able to come and talk about Bekele(although some people without brains will saw negative stuff about him). I like to think that I bring the place to life, with my witty puns.

Love a good predict my time thread.

Number one reason why I love this site and discussion forum is that I have no friends and hate my family, so letsrun gives me a sense of community.

It's easy to use

Don't have to register to post

Serious fanboy running discus ions

Training threads

Relationship threads

Because it's yellow, for real. Unique mood-altering color scheme.

Try to imagine it they changed it to blue or something. You'd abandon it right away.

Nothing to discus.

This is a dumas thread.

OP is a moran.

your welcome.

People come here to learn what it takes to be a Real Man

It's the elitist mindset, all other running forums are for hobby joggers. If you want to be judged by your performance this is the forum to go. And I quite like it. Let's say you run a good time, post about it in any other forum, you know the nice comments doesn't mean anything cause they would have been just as nice if you just ran sub30 5k. Here the nice comments mean something because if you run a bad time you will get roasted.

Please don't change this by being overly sensitive. Removing my post because it included the phrase "f****** hobby joggers", cmon man

This will get deleted, but the answer is Mike Rossi.

Being able to fulfill the basic human need to correct other people’s use of the English language.

Root Cause Wonderer wrote:

Survival isn’t success wrote:

you clearly have a very low bar for measuring success.

Maybe, but tell me what running website gets more traffic than LetsRun. That's a serious question because I'd like to check it out if one exists.

...so maybe the real answer is: Lack of an alternative.

Jamin Incel Solutions wrote:

It taught me what an incel was.

Funny. I was driving through the middle of nowhere yesterday and the only thing I could get on the radio was NPR. Their topic was InCels and my first thought was letsrun.

If you are a part of the InCel movement please do the following:

Do not own or drive a van, it is creepy and potentially dangerous.

If you go to Waffle House, any diner, Walmart or other retail establishment, please wear pants, shorts or something to cover your nether region.

Do not own a gun. It will not end well for yourself or others.

There are other creative solutions to your InCel situation. Third world countries and Grindr are the most reliable.

I stumbled onto this site many years ago (I want to say 18 years ago, but I'm not sure that's right). While I enjoy the Message Board, that was not my initial attraction the site. I enjoyed the "looseness" of it, the fact that the brothers were very connected to the running community and could therefore provide insight that was otherwise unavailable, and also the lighthearted nature of some of the stories. I even fell for an April Fool's story that first year (something about a legendary runner few had ever heard of who had disappeared but had been spotted running through the Iowa cornfields as he prepared for a comeback). I was also very impressed by their willingness to point out runners who were probably on PEDs, such as Regina Jacobs, and the fact that she would always have some sort of issue that would keep her from winning in situations that required testing. Whatever the case, this is one of the sites I check almost every day.

EPO.

the founders know their sport, put energy into it.

boards are free, stupid, smart funny, with experts, drug talk, everything.

the colors and graphics were terrible, site was disorganized, no matter.

there is content in there and people have freedom to express.

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on the contrary we have the dead track and field news ..

where the owner drove it into the ground,

while well organized and seemling processional, good controversial content was essentially banned by control freak owner Garry Hill., pretty soon, all the good pposters and experts were gone, having had enough of Hill.

In general it's like American Pie. Freedom to speak your mind. Sure, there's some censorship but it's minimal. It reminds me of most American big cities, not very friendly (even rude & mean) but helpful. I wouldn't change a thing. FREEDOM!!!! ▄︻̷̿┻̿═━一?

yepppp wrote:

...so maybe the real answer is: Lack of an alternative.

Bingo.

The message boards are like on big long run. Talking about running, relationships, food, politics, celebrities, and just about everything else. They read like a 20 miler out in the woods. Some of my best conversations with friends have ever been out on the roads/trails and this is similar. I've told things to people on long runs that I'd never tell anyone else even though I've never been to their house/met their spouse etc. Same goes for here. It's the perfect harmony of organized chaos, such is life.