Rate DCUM’s level of helpfulness by category

[Anonymous]

General Parenting: 60 percent useful ideas, 40 percent SAHM-shaming and WOHP-shaming (evenly split)

[Anonymous]

Special needs forum is amazing. Lots of great advice, even if we need to wade through unhelpful advice from parents of neurotypical children. It’s 97% gold, 3% Why can’t you just fix your child?

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Anonymous wrote:Home improvement is really helpful! I don’t think many people go there, that’a probably why

Agree. I think Home Improvement is the sanest forum.

[Anonymous]

Website Feedback

60% WTF you are all a bunch of babies reporting every post and whining to Jeff and I don't understand how he gets up in the morning

30% satisfying (was it a troll? a continued argument outside a locked thread? Yes please)

10% Blue Balls when something is locked for good and I missed out and never have closure. Such is life.

[Anonymous]

Entertainment forum is 100% useful in providing a place to anonymously discuss pop culture and learn about shows or movies that I might have otherwise missed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Beauty and fashion
85%WTF 10% those jeans are out 3% coconut oil 1% menstrual cup 1% actually helpful

Beauty and fashion is 100% “don’t worry about fashion, you should wear whatever you want”.

Only in dc.

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Anonymous wrote:Entertainment forum is 100% useful in providing a place to anonymously discuss pop culture and learn about shows or movies that I might have otherwise missed.

Agree except the Meghan Markle fans are bat$hit crazy. Any royal family post goes off the rails early.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Travel high.
Relationships LOL.

Relationships is easily 90% WTF.

Politics is less crazy since the election, which sounds insane to say.

Relationships summed up is:

OP - "my husband is doing something that minorly annoys me"
Follow up posters - "divorce, divorce, he's probably cheating/divorce"

[Anonymous]

Entertainment and Fashion have an automatic deduction because of stupid posters who do not know how to embed pictures.

[Anonymous]

Money is the least helpful forum as the only good advice is in replies that correct another poster's atrocious advice on tax or finances. It's primarily people asking rich posters what job they could possibly have to support their expenses, trolls making outlandish fake rich budgets, and crypto evangelists.

[Anonymous]

Did someone already call out the kids with disabilities and special needs? Consistently decent and helpful posts.

[Anonymous]

Food forum is:
50% - potlucks are gross
25% - DC restaurants are overrated
20% - no good pizza in DC
5% - is this still safe to eat?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Infertility was so helpful for me when I was going through it 10 years ago. Thank you to everyone who helped me, and I tried to keep responding to the board for the few years while everything was still fresh in my mind.

+ 1

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Anonymous wrote:Special needs forum is amazing. Lots of great advice, even if we need to wade through unhelpful advice from parents of neurotypical children. It’s 97% gold, 3% Why can’t you just fix your child?

Same. This may be one of the most important forums on this site. Along with Expecting Parents

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Infertility was so helpful for me when I was going through it 10 years ago. Thank you to everyone who helped me, and I tried to keep responding to the board for the few years while everything was still fresh in my mind.

+ 1

+1. I meant to also add that this one is super important.