What would you change about DCUM?

[Anonymous]

Equal advice to both sexes.

Covid topics to be like the political forum and not show up in the recent topics.

If you post looking for advice and don't take any of the advice you can't post about the situation again.

Old posts get locked. I appreciate people trying to avoid the "there is a search function" but people inevitably only respond to the OP even if that post was years ago.

[Anonymous]

Archiving old posts. I’ll see one asking for advice, read the OP and the last few responses and respond . THEN realize that the post is over a year old, and someone revived it and it’s no longer relevant

[Anonymous]

Some kind of indication as to where people are posting from. Even just the country would be helpful. At the beginning of Covid I really feel that the political and health forums were both taken over by foreign trolls and it really hurt the character of both forums.

[Anonymous]

I wish old threads would just be deleted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some kind of indication as to where people are posting from. Even just the country would be helpful. At the beginning of Covid I really feel that the political and health forums were both taken over by foreign trolls and it really hurt the character of both forums.

I think the same about the school threads. There's no way that actual people are posting some of this nonsense.

[Anonymous]

Remove the mean people.

Some are just trolls, but others like to think of themselves as helpfully "blunt" or "honest." They aren't.

[Anonymous]

Agree that people need to trim their headers!! Also agree that archiving old threads would be good.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would like an option so that an OP of a thread could add something to their post - like a sticker or something - so it's easier to figure out if they replied. But probably too difficult since its anonymous posting

Also would love an easy way to bookmark threads

Yes. that would help to skip or seek for certain posts .. awesome idea.

Still anonymous and per thread feature.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Remove the mean people.

Some are just trolls, but others like to think of themselves as helpfully "blunt" or "honest." They aren't.

Or ad an auto tag that follows the poster for a week:

You call someone a name. .. a warning " this poster calls people names" follows each of your posts for a week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wish old threads would just be deleted.

What did you post.????

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some kind of indication as to where people are posting from. Even just the country would be helpful. At the beginning of Covid I really feel that the political and health forums were both taken over by foreign trolls and it really hurt the character of both forums.

If they are trolls enough they can override that. I think.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some kind of indication as to where people are posting from. Even just the country would be helpful. At the beginning of Covid I really feel that the political and health forums were both taken over by foreign trolls and it really hurt the character of both forums.

If they are trolls enough they can override that. I think.

Most people are too stupid to realize how to use VPNs.

The other issue is that DC, and therefore DCUM, is the largest hub of international families outside of NYC in U.S. simply by our sheer diplomatic presence. All of them are fluent in English.

Its not so much psy-ops as people being assholes I think. But also yeah - there are a lot of foreign trolls on these boards. Especially in politics.

[Anonymous]

I would love to never see another thread about whether or not something is tacky.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wish everyone who complains about meanness would report posts with no redeeming value. Jeff is good about removing them, but he can't be expected to seek them all out.

YES. Be the change you want to see in the DCUM.

[Anonymous]

Have the option to flag an offensive poster and if that post gets so many flags on a particular post, they are banned for a day.