Do you ever recognize repeat posters?

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Anonymous wrote:There is an atheist poster who hijacks threads to talk about how Christians stole Christmas from the Romans or pagans. This is usually in the religion forum, but also turns up randomly in forums like Home Design and Tweens/Teens.


She is so ugly.


You sound like a GoOd ChRiSTiaN.
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Anonymous wrote:I have 2 HS students, and started reading the college section, and there is at least 1 poster who hates U of Pitt, refers to it as a DMV safety school that everyone applies to and no one gets in to; also the basher of Northeastern University, who rails on them for "gaming the system" even though it seems like a popular choice at our public HS


+1

Some parents make it so obvious that their DC were not admitted to that particular school. I seriously feel bad for their DC, since the parents are so obviously fixated.


There is a school I sometimes rag on in the College forum and it's not because my kid was rejected. It's because I've known/worked with three different alumni from the school who were both generally awful and also suuuuuuper into their alma mater, and therefore I have nothing positive to say about it even though it's probably not a a terrible school and there are probably kids who are very happy there. I don't think my kid will have any interest in it because of it's location and vibe, but if she did apply, I would be privately relieved if she didn't get in because I don't want anything to do with it.


You do realize this makes you sound really, really crazy? 😳😳


This is not even crazy, much less "really, really crazy"/shocked emoji crazy.

Someone has negative associations with a school based on negative experiences with multiple alumni. This is how many people develop opinions of schools they didn't attend?


Nah, it’s crazy. If you are repeatedly slamming a school you have no association with because over the course of your adult life you’ve met three people from the school you didn’t like, that is indeed nuts. It speaks to a very unhealthy level of obsession.


+1. Have to agree. Starting multiple threads about any one school, place, etc. is the definition of insane.

Besides if those parents posting about certain colleges have kids who are worthy of the top schools, presumably those parents have a more reliable source than DCUM - and are more educated than the troll.


I'm the PP being called "crazy" and I'd never start a thread on that school. I don't care that much. But if someone posts about deciding between that school and another one, I'll say critical things about it based on my admittedly limited experience

To be fair, it's a pretty big name school and I've never met an alumni I really liked or enjoyed with working with either. I don't think it's crazy to be critical of it.

My only point was that there are reasons to criticize a college others like that have nothing to do with your kid being rejected. It's not always sour grapes-- some of us just have negative opinions of schools for various reasons.


I do the same thing for two schools. I share my negatives experiences. Nothing wrong with that.


The issue is how obviously unaware of certain pertinent and crucial details the posters are, with the schools they try to disparage. That, along with the "voice" of the writer, which makes it obvious it is the same writer, continuously. It begins to look like a serious mental health issue. If you are going to raise an issue, at least know what you are talking about, and at least make an effort to not be so obvious about your seeking plausible deniability.

In other words, it would be different if the arguments and/or posts made sense, and the OP was not an obvious troll. Clearly the troll posts are time better spent on mental health and self improvement, than a school with which you are so obviously. not familiar.


I think we found one of the nutter boosters.
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Anonymous wrote:There is an atheist poster who hijacks threads to talk about how Christians stole Christmas from the Romans or pagans. This is usually in the religion forum, but also turns up randomly in forums like Home Design and Tweens/Teens.


Are you seriously this ignorant? That poster is right!
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The Del Ray floods lady

The "ACPS is terrible" person(s) who don't know anything actually about the school system

The "Dean J says" lady on the college forum

The $300,000 guy on anything construction related.
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Anonymous wrote:In the college discussion area, whenever a college in the midwest or south is mentioned, the (apparently) same lady always feels compelled to interject that it’s not particularly easy to get an abortion in that state, so she would never let her kids consider a college in that state.

This isn’t just one poster.


Yes it is.
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Anonymous wrote:The woman on here who insists that each meal be this huge spread of food and picks on others who have light breakfast and lunch and a reasonable dinner.


OMG, are you "Beautiful piece of fruit" mom?

I don't know how you decide how someone else's food intake is "reasonable"


Meh. There is an obesity problem in America - people are eating way too much.


STOP IT PP!

You are engaging in oppression when you post bigoted views like that. You really need to stop right now!
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Anonymous wrote:The woman on here who insists that each meal be this huge spread of food and picks on others who have light breakfast and lunch and a reasonable dinner.


OMG, are you "Beautiful piece of fruit" mom?

I don't know how you decide how someone else's food intake is "reasonable"


I suspect this is about holiday celebrations and family get-togethers, not "each meal" every day. But it's hilarious that she turns it into that.
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The all fruit is unhealthy carb person
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Anonymous wrote:There is an atheist poster who hijacks threads to talk about how Christians stole Christmas from the Romans or pagans. This is usually in the religion forum, but also turns up randomly in forums like Home Design and Tweens/Teens.


Are you seriously this ignorant? That poster is right!


But so boring! This is middle-schooler-who-just-discovered-reddit iconoclasm. What's he going to blow our minds with next?
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Anonymous wrote:It's been a while, but Doc Review Guy


I wonder if he got a job he likes? I really have not seen him in a long time!!


He did not, he is still here, and he is miserable, with mental health issues.
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Anonymous wrote:I have 2 HS students, and started reading the college section, and there is at least 1 poster who hates U of Pitt, refers to it as a DMV safety school that everyone applies to and no one gets in to; also the basher of Northeastern University, who rails on them for "gaming the system" even though it seems like a popular choice at our public HS


+1

Some parents make it so obvious that their DC were not admitted to that particular school. I seriously feel bad for their DC, since the parents are so obviously fixated.


There is a school I sometimes rag on in the College forum and it's not because my kid was rejected. It's because I've known/worked with three different alumni from the school who were both generally awful and also suuuuuuper into their alma mater, and therefore I have nothing positive to say about it even though it's probably not a a terrible school and there are probably kids who are very happy there. I don't think my kid will have any interest in it because of it's location and vibe, but if she did apply, I would be privately relieved if she didn't get in because I don't want anything to do with it.


You do realize this makes you sound really, really crazy? 😳😳


This is not even crazy, much less "really, really crazy"/shocked emoji crazy.

Someone has negative associations with a school based on negative experiences with multiple alumni. This is how many people develop opinions of schools they didn't attend?


Nah, it’s crazy. If you are repeatedly slamming a school you have no association with because over the course of your adult life you’ve met three people from the school you didn’t like, that is indeed nuts. It speaks to a very unhealthy level of obsession.


+1. Have to agree. Starting multiple threads about any one school, place, etc. is the definition of insane.

Besides if those parents posting about certain colleges have kids who are worthy of the top schools, presumably those parents have a more reliable source than DCUM - and are more educated than the troll.


I'm the PP being called "crazy" and I'd never start a thread on that school. I don't care that much. But if someone posts about deciding between that school and another one, I'll say critical things about it based on my admittedly limited experience

To be fair, it's a pretty big name school and I've never met an alumni I really liked or enjoyed with working with either. I don't think it's crazy to be critical of it.

My only point was that there are reasons to criticize a college others like that have nothing to do with your kid being rejected. It's not always sour grapes-- some of us just have negative opinions of schools for various reasons.


I’m so fascinated by this level of active hatred and obsession. Do you say “I have met three people I dislike who went to the school so their English department is trash” or something like that? Maybe “Really disliked my coworker from 2011 who went to Brown, and their dorms suck”? How does this even work?

It does seem crazy to me, sorry.


No of course not. I'd say "my impression of alums is that they are really into their school but the people I've worked with have been annoying with below average intelligence, YMMV." Or "everyone I know who went there has been an arrogant blowhard, I'd pick School X instead."


Well, this has certainly been enlightening. Next time someone says something like that, I will ask exactly how many people the statement refers to, and over what time period.

When the answer is invariably something like “I really hated how Janice in accounting rejected my TPS reports back in 1998 (so mean!), and Toby cut in front of me in carpool drop off multiple times from 2011-2014, and of course who can forget Alicia, who didn’t invite my kid to her kid’s birthday party in 2009,” I will know exactly how much to respect the opinion.

Quite an interesting insight into psychology, for sure.
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The health anxiety/ ovarian cancer poster.
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Anonymous wrote:The all fruit is unhealthy carb person


+1
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Anonymous wrote:In the college discussion area, whenever a college in the midwest or south is mentioned, the (apparently) same lady always feels compelled to interject that it’s not particularly easy to get an abortion in that state, so she would never let her kids consider a college in that state.

This isn’t just one poster.


Yes it is.


DP. There are definitely multiple posters who make similar comments.
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Anonymous wrote:I have 2 HS students, and started reading the college section, and there is at least 1 poster who hates U of Pitt, refers to it as a DMV safety school that everyone applies to and no one gets in to; also the basher of Northeastern University, who rails on them for "gaming the system" even though it seems like a popular choice at our public HS


+1

Some parents make it so obvious that their DC were not admitted to that particular school. I seriously feel bad for their DC, since the parents are so obviously fixated.


There is a school I sometimes rag on in the College forum and it's not because my kid was rejected. It's because I've known/worked with three different alumni from the school who were both generally awful and also suuuuuuper into their alma mater, and therefore I have nothing positive to say about it even though it's probably not a a terrible school and there are probably kids who are very happy there. I don't think my kid will have any interest in it because of it's location and vibe, but if she did apply, I would be privately relieved if she didn't get in because I don't want anything to do with it.


You do realize this makes you sound really, really crazy? 😳😳


This is not even crazy, much less "really, really crazy"/shocked emoji crazy.

Someone has negative associations with a school based on negative experiences with multiple alumni. This is how many people develop opinions of schools they didn't attend?


Nah, it’s crazy. If you are repeatedly slamming a school you have no association with because over the course of your adult life you’ve met three people from the school you didn’t like, that is indeed nuts. It speaks to a very unhealthy level of obsession.


+1. Have to agree. Starting multiple threads about any one school, place, etc. is the definition of insane.

Besides if those parents posting about certain colleges have kids who are worthy of the top schools, presumably those parents have a more reliable source than DCUM - and are more educated than the troll.


I'm the PP being called "crazy" and I'd never start a thread on that school. I don't care that much. But if someone posts about deciding between that school and another one, I'll say critical things about it based on my admittedly limited experience

To be fair, it's a pretty big name school and I've never met an alumni I really liked or enjoyed with working with either. I don't think it's crazy to be critical of it.

My only point was that there are reasons to criticize a college others like that have nothing to do with your kid being rejected. It's not always sour grapes-- some of us just have negative opinions of schools for various reasons.


I’m so fascinated by this level of active hatred and obsession. Do you say “I have met three people I dislike who went to the school so their English department is trash” or something like that? Maybe “Really disliked my coworker from 2011 who went to Brown, and their dorms suck”? How does this even work?

It does seem crazy to me, sorry.


No of course not. I'd say "my impression of alums is that they are really into their school but the people I've worked with have been annoying with below average intelligence, YMMV." Or "everyone I know who went there has been an arrogant blowhard, I'd pick School X instead."


Well, this has certainly been enlightening. Next time someone says something like that, I will ask exactly how many people the statement refers to, and over what time period.

When the answer is invariably something like “I really hated how Janice in accounting rejected my TPS reports back in 1998 (so mean!), and Toby cut in front of me in carpool drop off multiple times from 2011-2014, and of course who can forget Alicia, who didn’t invite my kid to her kid’s birthday party in 2009,” I will know exactly how much to respect the opinion.

Quite an interesting insight into psychology, for sure.


+1 And severe mental health issues.
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