Didn’t survive The Snap, but didn’t get completely trimmed by TVA, either
https://web.archive.org/web/20160630010346/https://forum.slowtwitch.com/forum/?post=2807753#p2807753
Ah … the FOX News of the Running community (I almost posted “Running World” but @RunnersWorld is more like Bravo)
Best answer to a question on any forum of any type. Thanks for sharing.
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It’s you and me buddy. We’re toxic Penners 
Omg I just unlocked the Bilingual Pun achievement. A dad joke squared. Hire me Ryan
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But that is not an example of any nefarious intent, it was an honest question from a foreigner. And as I recall that thread turned into one of the classics, with everyone very polite and the offender falling on his sword and taking his licks, all of which were funny and in jest. It was an example of how great ST can be, not one of it at its worst..
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I would be curious of what countries people visiting are from, with percentages (to a reasonable exactness). Is the site/forum as US-based as perceived?
That would any number of 'Twitch-hunts, or the Ashley Horner thread
Also among “Best” might also be the annual 100/100 threads, where pithy smack-talk and genuine motivation lived in harmony
Yeah - I had Candice - XLAB as my user and after the migration I went to Candice_XLAB. Never heard back from support so I guess they couldn’t figure out my issue…not sure if it was common though
now look at that. A guy hiding behind initials personally attacking a person using his name. I didn’t attack you, you chose to make it personal. I THINK the thread you are referring to is the thread on the lead up to the Olympics. I suggested changing the title of the thread so it is not a three year long thread! As simple as that. From one perspective, and one Ryan and I agree on, that’s more productive for forum engagement, so I was trying to make that point, rather than it turning into a private club of a few people only.
As soon as something becomes a private club it becomes harder to convert people who lurk to people who generate content. Without content generation, there are no reasons to enage. And using real names engagement tends to be focused on the topic of discussion rather than attacking a characterless “handle” (which to the owner of said characterless handle actually becomes personal to them, but to the person firing the attack, it is just a charaterless bot equivalent on the internet). Using real names generally humanizes the interactions online. And I do get that real life discourse has also deteriorated in society as we take our comportment online increasingly to real life venues, so its not just here on ST, I see that playing out.
In any case, that’s my suggestion to @E_DUB and @rrheisler . I literally make that suggestion every 2-3 years, but perhaps now there is an opening as we watch the rest of the internet discourse quality go down the drain.
We can also join that or be different and be leaders in a new direction for internet online discourse. It may be worth losing anonymous people who want to act like dicks from behind handles in favour of bringing in new users who want to be able to identify one another and create real connections in the virtual world that we can carry thru when we meet at races and other venues.
I think on any team, company community, no matter how smart a person is, at some point it does not matter. It’s better to have a volume of reasonably intelligent individuals who can get along than a genius dick that constantly talks down to others. I am not saying the names you pointed to were behaving that way (I don’t think they were).
But just thematically, if some smart people turn many people way, we may never recruit the next geniuses who we don’t know a lot about today. And maybe those are geniuses who also have the ability to convey their points in a constructive community building angle. We’ve seen people like that outside of triathlon in our lives, and we have seen the pompous dick geniuses too and their impact on groups of people.
Probably the prime example of the genius who can make people comfortable was @Slowman himself. He invented the tri bike, the wetsuit, triathlon specific social media and to my recollection never was a dick even once over a quarter century online. He would engage on different points of view while respecting the other point of view and the other person. To me, that’s a gold standard of how we want to engage here and elsewhere online.
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I was just thinking about how some of the interaction over the years on the forum vs how people comport themselves in real life, and that brought me to a story from “real life”
It was at the ST party in Kona in 2013. A bunch of us where hanging out on a patio at the ST house that Slowman had in Kona. As it turns out, I just happened to be physically talking to slowman at the time and a guy walked up to slowman and said, “wow everyone is so nice around here. Everyone is nice in real life”. To which slowman replied almost instantly, “you have it all wrong. The way all those posters act from behind a keyboard in their underwear in anonymity, that’s the exact dickish behaviour they have with their family in private and it comes out online because no one can see them just like at home in private. Everything you see here in the live world is the fake version of these people”
I think he pretty well nailed it.
How we comport around here with anonymous handles, is exactly how we all act in private when no one can judge us.
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% I remember Slowman talking about that back then. He was right.
Let me refresh your memory ,with some of the stuff you wrote ( that I called childish)
“Anyway back to the thread at hand, I predict the IOC won’t offer anyone a peace prize for hosting the event like FIFA did. I can’t see IOC chief Kirsty Coventry going that way. OK sorry for the tangent, but you guys asked for predictions for LA 2028 and that’s my prediction that there is no peace prize on offer from IOC.”
Than this..
“Well the internet was invented in 1989 for real time data sharing and people want to come on the internet in 2025 to not know what is going on in the world in real time.
I can’t help them”
Than this
( after you wanted a thread for each race ,you got snarky when somebody suggested you start those threads )
“So you want me to post 24 threads about racing around 24 parking lot for three years before they race around a parking lot in LA?”
You then came back with this nonsense about peace prices a 2 Nd time which was not funny the first time …
“I predict that Coventry is not giving out peace awards and that neither Paris Olympic gold medalist is in the medals. Largely because only a few times we get medalists repeating, so I predict everyone from 2024 is shut out. We can bump this thread…”
You tell me if you think that was good good forum practise .
maybe read the thread again now that you have calmed down and Ryan has told you that some deeper threads are also good for the search engine.
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“We are what we pretend to be, so must be careful what we pretend to be”’ - Kurt Vonnegut
ah, genius. yes, genius. more about the genius thing.
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Inspired by the article’s take on ‘numbers’, here’s a list of the threads with more than 200 comments (trawled back about 7 months, excludes equipment-type threads, and my shorthand of the title, listed in order (newest>oldest last) comment):
| Thread | Number of Comments |
|---|---|
| JK TTH | 1400 |
| Weirdest | 485 |
| IM Ottawa | 1200 |
| LS | 4014 |
| SL | 1124 |
| Qatar T100 GF | 264 |
| T100-WTCS | 2100 |
| LCB/Knibb ‘Suicide’ | 206 |
| PTN | 446 |
| ITU WTCS | 812 |
| T100 Dubai | 316 |
| Yee marathon | 224 |
| Kona 2025 race day | 1600 |
| KQ2026 Perf Pool | 1600 |
| KQ 2026 revamp | 313 |
| IM Pro Series 2025 | 482 |
| Marbella race day-women | 196 |
| Marbella race day-men | 248 |
| Simmonds suspension | 889 |
| (Simmonds ‘no fault’ | 105) |
| Kona 2025 pre race | 509 |
| Wilde shoe fail | 236 |
| Nice 2025 race day | 483 |
| Hydration rules | 461 |
| New KQ Rules | 565 |
| T100 London | 295 |
So we’re looking at threads that survived The Snap AND have recent comments, just to be clear?
Where’s Lionel?
There threads in the list which are more than 18 months ‘old’. Many post date September 2024 which I think is when Slowtwitch significantly upgraded. Did you lose a favourite child(thread)?
LS=Sanders
SL=Long
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I guess we could say this is the “All-Time” list (from the Archive.org Wayback Machine, dated end of August 2024)
