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Details! Who did she bring to tears? Who was humiliated? If Quigley brought a bunch of teammates to tears, then they must have forgiven her because many BTC athletes past and present still support each other on social media, do brunch and dinners, and run together in Flagstaff and Portland.
She had beef with one teammate and that one turned out to be a drug cheat.
Your move Gossip Girl! Bring the receipts or it didn’t happen.
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More pro runners, men and women, should pull this move. Why talk to aggregator hacks that let their forums spew slanderous crap? The junk being posted about Seidel’s TUE was just pathetic. Some can say it doesn’t matter and it’s just a niche corner on the internet but for a niche sport it certainly creates a vibe that no person should want around.
bloviating wrote:
More pro runners, men and women, should pull this move. Why talk to aggregator hacks that let their forums spew slanderous crap?
Slander requires something to be untrue. What are you saying is untrue?
Could someone pls remind me what happened on here with Leah O’Conner / Falland that brojos said they removed? Did it have to do with her trials race?
there at the meet wrote:
It was quite rainy throughout the meet - throw all the times out the window. It was the rainiest track meet I’ve ever been to.
The track was soaked. Everyone who was out on the infield left the meet very wet.
Friday was terrible but Saturday was fine
I’m not gonna get into specifics regarding this thread. But IMO, to some degree the “cesspool” is what makes the LRMB my favorite place on the internet. I mean, I love discussing elite running, and you can find more informed & passionate fans of elite running here than anywhere else, but the “cesspool” is part of what allows me to spend hours upon hours of my free time here. Sure, the political/Covid threads can be tiresome, but otoh I wish the mods would allow more of the goofy/irreverent/joke threads that were more commonly allowed in the days of yore.
Sorry for the detour… This is my favorite website and the fact that the owners take a relatively laissez-faire approach toward its message board is a big reason for that. They are repeatedly pointing out that if you take issue with a post you can click a button and more often than not it will be deleted. To blame them for anything and everything that some anonymous yahoo might post is ridiculous. To claim, as I’ve seen, that the brojos are “everything that’s wrong with the sport” is ridiculous. To claim (as I’ve seen) that the brojos contribute to the Covid pandemic or the war in Ukraine is borderline insane. People have a want to blame anyone who’s in a position of authority or ownership for every little slight, injustice, failure, mistake, and unfortunate side effect, when it’s often illogical. The brojos are not the enemy and their website rules.
there at the meet wrote:
It was quite rainy throughout the meet - throw all the times out the window. It was the rainiest track meet I’ve ever been to.
The track was soaked. Everyone who was out on the infield left the meet very wet.
"Let's all move to Oregon, it's perfect for distance running" they said
To be fair, the news reported this evening that this is the rainiest spring in Portland since they’ve been keeping official records at the airport (83 years).
Makes Paper wrote:
To be fair, the news reported this evening that this is the rainiest spring in Portland since they’ve been keeping official records at the airport (83 years).
New York Times said it was the coldest winter in 17 years
I didn’t feel so cold then
Fixing the forum content is easy. Require registration, and block any IPs that make any type of outlandish comment, permanently.
I'm a member of the mrmoneymustache forums, and once made a crude joke (not that bad in my opinion, but it didn't fit the topic of the forum, which is personal finance), and was quickly banned with no explanation. There is no way mrmoneymustache has more moderators than letsrun.com.
Clean this place up, and it could be the beacon on the hill for running. Add in some modern features like upvote/downvote and you guys wouldn't have such a bad reputation.
How to Fix this site wrote:
Fixing the forum content is easy. Require registration, and block any IPs that make any type of outlandish comment, permanently.
I'm a member of the mrmoneymustache forums, and once made a crude joke (not that bad in my opinion, but it didn't fit the topic of the forum, which is personal finance), and was quickly banned with no explanation. There is no way mrmoneymustache has more moderators than letsrun.com.
Clean this place up, and it could be the beacon on the hill for running. Add in some modern features like upvote/downvote and you guys wouldn't have such a bad reputation.
it will never happen friend. it's been asked for for years.
You may be right however I would posit that the reason an athlete may choose not to speak with LRC has more to do with the Brojos themselves and their speculative takes and sketchy journalism than what people say on the forums. Every athlete/celebrity in the world has things said about them online by nobodies sitting comfortably in their living rooms. It's not every website on which the site owners (who consider themselves respectable journalists) roll around in the mud with everyone and publish weird sometimes disrespectful articles and podcasts with unsubstantiated claims. Obviously all of us like LRC enough to post here but legit media sources who have "made it" understand there's a time and place for facts and a time and place for speculation. LRC hasn't figured that out yet.
Having said that, the forum users could contribute to a better environment as well. In short, everybody be a good human and Brojos get it together and figure out how to be actual ethical journalists if that's what you think you are. OOOOOOR (and this is an easy OR) go on as usual with this moderately successful model you've got and just don't get interviews from Quigley and a few others. Probably not that hard to live with.
Like twitter and Facebook, in an essentially unchecked forum like this bad behavior is rewarded. Look at every comments section ever.
wejo wrote:
Wow such a long thread. Haven't read it all.
1) Please use the "report a post" function for any post you find objectionable. Human moderatore read every post reported.
"Oldest unmoderated post reported: 1 week ago"
Thought 1:
Posts Reported And Then Deleted 386
Posts Deleted 627
Not sure whether those 627 include the 386, but why would the mods delete so many posts that don't even get reported?
Thought 2:
If your post (but not thread) is deleted, you will see the reason selected by the moderator when visiting the thread in which you posted.
Questions:
Why is there a point called "other"?
Why do some personal attacks get deleted and some don't?
I haven't read every page but it looks like it degenerated into an argument.
After the NCAA's what does everyone think of the Men's Steeple at Nationals?
