Forums >Running 101>Why does it matter???
...I felt good when I saw the welcome on the home page and now I see responses to threads that make me angry. You don't have to put down people of their topics b/c they aren't what you are used to seeing. At first I felt like I needed to be sensitive, now I feel like maybe some of the more tenured RA members need to practice a little sensitivity themselves...
I've got a fever...
On your deathbed, you won't wish that you'd spent more time at the office. But you will wish that you'd spent more time running. Because if you had, you wouldn't be on your deathbed.
You'll ruin your knees!
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RA has had a certain organization and associated customs which the RA folks are used to. The main forum has been for general discussion about running, beneficial and of interest to everyone. Attempts to form long-standing “cliquish” threads on the main forum, dedicated to a certain group of runners, seems out of place to the native RA-er. RA has groups where people can gather to share discuss common special interests (trail runners, low heart rate trainers, masters, …), and similarly, it seems inappropriate to many native RA-ers to have threads in these groups which would be of interests to all runners (i.e., those discussion should be in the main forum).
VA, thank you for saying this. I think this is a big difference. In RA you have User Groups, in KR there are "Running Groups and Clubs". At both of these site these are places where people can meet in smaller groups. In CR we did not have this. If you wanted to be a member of a group of people in the same point in life or interests you needed to create a posting for your group in the main group. This made it easy to wander from group to group while staying in the main forum. My association is like being in a large party and just moving from friend to friend. I am not arguing what is better at all, it is just different.
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Prophet!
Thanks for pointing this out. I too, am not saying which is better, just pointing out what has been the custom here, and why it may matter to the RA folks.