Agreed. I have been a member of several distance running message boards, and it seems like once they get popular, it is only a matter of time before idiots feel an irrepressible need to ruin the usability of the board. The one I post on now has about 12 regular posters which is far from popular. Things are under control there, but the group is just not large enough to have really good conversations on a regular basis. It is hard to find the happy medium, but I would say that this place is as close as I have found.
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