Is LetsRun just a joke at this point?

No different to the rest of the internet. All popular sites with a large number of regular users have gone the same way. Niche forums are making a comeback.

The moderators are idiots. They do an apparently purposefully poor job, somehow allowing the ugliest stuff to remain and attract more ugliness while deleting interesting posts and threads that are far less toxic. Concerning politics, the middle gets hollowed out while the extremes are left up to attract more fringe posters.

I was here many times a week over the years. Now, it's a peek every few days and an occasional post. The less I stop by, the more glaring it is that the site is a filthy dive of a gathering place to punch, and get punched, in the face. It's a place to stop by, tell another poster to eff off, be told to eff off in return, and then click to another site. That's all LRC is anymore.

Yeah, it was called tnfmedia.com

Rojo is fat! If you delete this it’s bc you’re an SJW!!!

It's all about the advertisement money. They gotta keep that rolling in. That's why so many posts/threads are kept on the boards despite not contributing anything.

Money! wrote:

It's all about the advertisement money. They gotta keep that rolling in. That's why so many posts/threads are kept on the boards despite not contributing anything.

Yeah, but at least you don't have to register to post.

Cleveland browns head coach wrote:

someone’s got to stop the apocalypse wrote:

28% is about 22%?

? i meant 17 out of 78 threads. Still 22%

But for this purpose... Oh yeah! 28% is more than close enough to 22%

I don't think that trolling here is very bad compared to the rest of the internet. Sure you can get a troll on any thread now and then, but the serious running threads don't get trolled so much. (Probably because running is pretty boring, even for a troll)

Trolls generally migrate to and accumulate in the non-running and completely off-topic threads. I think they're pretty funny sometimes.

Threads started by trolls typically either get deleted or don't get replies. It's pretty easy to pick out a troll-only thread by the controversial statement in the first post, and no one here wants to troll back and forth forever.

The unfortunate thing is that now I never see good running or training advice anymore. The replies are just from underinformed newbs who read about running online or used to run at school for a few years. Even if there was a good reply, you couldn't filter it out among all of the rest of the junk. You're better off doing your own research to substantiate any info. before trusting the eager-to-reply newb patrol.

The only joke is you wrote:

4000260 wrote:

YOU FOOLS! I just had a bet with my friend to see how many people I could get pissed off. LOSERS!!!!!!!

lol, you don't have any friends.

I have every single friend ever. GO TO JAILLLL!!!!!!

Draft Day! wrote:

Rojo is fat! If you delete this it’s bc you’re an SJW!!!

Holy crap how hasn’t he deleted it yet? This is a freaking miracle.

pffft wrote:

Money! wrote:

It's all about the advertisement money. They gotta keep that rolling in. That's why so many posts/threads are kept on the boards despite not contributing anything.

Yeah, but at least you don't have to register to post.

That’s literally the only good thing about this place.

pffft wrote:

Money! wrote:It's all about the advertisement money. They gotta keep that rolling in. That's why so many posts/threads are kept on the boards despite not contributing anything.

Yeah, but at least you don't have to register to post.

That's the business plan. Make it easier to log on to. No registration makes it easier. More hits on the site. More hits on the ads. More $$ for the Brojos!

veldig dårlig wrote:

The only joke is you wrote:

Abou 80% of the threads on the front page are running related, go back as many years as you can go and you'll find about the same mix of /running/non running genuine/non running troll/ posts

Actually, only 67% of the threads on the front page at this moment are running related. The rest are such winners as: net worth at 32, butt slapping, phrases not to be used by those over 30, LSU being out of class, etc. Having been on the boards since around 2003, I would agree that the quality of the threads as well as posters has degraded significantly. People like Jack Daniels, Marty liquori, steve scott, etc used to add meaningful discussion to the boards. Fools and toxicity pushed them away.

Bro you’re the only non idiot on this entire thread.

Not really impressed by this place. Same with other sites.

Mounty Pylon wrote:

Cleveland browns head coach wrote:

? i meant 17 out of 78 threads. Still 22%

But for this purpose... Oh yeah! 28% is more than close enough to 22%

Thanks for your contribution to this thread! I agree that facts are hard to digest, and that the liberal agenda shall proceed uninhibited. You're super!

You are 11 years too late.

We started jumped the shark in 2008 and have been on the decline ever since.

And I had no idea Steve Scott or Marty Liquori used to post on here so I missed the glory days.

https://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=2719554

https://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=2965239

https://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=4063573

https://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=4688382

Not many people talk about how gymnastics training focused on improving standing balance can improve your running.

BigDawg69 wrote:

How much is there really to talk about running? In the past 20 years we have talked about everything already.

I was told this 30 years ago about advertising but it also applies to this. You have to look at it as getting your message to people on a train. Your audience is always changing. While there may have been some great info 10 years ago, those runners are older and may not run anymore. New runners have come along who wouldn't be able to find that information. Also, some things do change such as the opinion on static stretching. That is why a rag like runners world has the exact same type of articles they had 30 years ago.

As a libertarian, letsrun is the last bastion of free speech on the internet.

THANK YOU BROJOS

M.A.G.A.