amazing. looks like some renewed comments on the runners world column too
rojo wrote:
I was only sort of following this thread but decided to take a close look recently.
Here is what I've found. It's very interesting.
Below a Runner's World article (http://www.runnersworld.com/races/race-asks-for-some-prize-money-back-then-changes-its-mind), on December 23rd at 2:49 Pacific (4:49 pm CT which is the time that shows up on the LetsRun forum - RW shows the time zone where you are posting from, our forum uses Central Time all the time), the race director Robert Nichols posted in the comments section (where your ID is verified by facebook), "I just posted, its a 2hour time difference for me. Look at the last post that says Hello. Now look at what time this post comes up as."
I went to the messageboard and found the post that many might think he just implied he just made. There was a post from 7 minutes before - at 4:42 CT - from "Adtgy" saying "Hello."
as shown here.
http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=6901347&page=31#6924556As an administrator, I can click on a button that shows you all of the posts coming from that very same computer (as recorded by cookies). Here is where it gets interesting. That same computer is the one producing ALL 9 of the posts from "Ahole elites" .So no one hijacked 'Ahole elites" even though the posts start out ripping elites and talking about how great the race is to ultimately calling for the race director to be fired. They are all coming from the same computer.
The same computer (according to cookies) also posted a lot of posts defending the race under various names including "CPA", “We have a Winnerâ€, “Funny Manâ€.and "We're all on here" including one where the name Bob Nickles appears to be intentionally misspelled.
"We're all on here"wrote:I received a call a few days ago from the RD, Bob Nickles. I've participated over the last couple of years also. Nice guy and unfortunately just screwed up his numbers. I sincerely wish that he's not taking this too hard. He's turned a small race into a huge beach run at low tide with thousands participating. Trust me this guy will bounce back and have an even better race next year. They opened registration already and its $16,000 in prize money. It's funny how they listed their prize money, probably over paranoid.
That same cookie also posts three times under the name "Rdsurfingmadonna" although most of the "RdSurfingmadonna" posts comes from another computer and different IP address.. The fact that "Ahole elites" and "Rdsurfingmadonna" are posting around the same times could easily be explained by the fact that one is coming from a verizon wireless IP and one from a cox IP.