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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why do we have "Regional" forums?

It's hard to keep up in context when people from outside the DMV are responding on posts.

I've come across many lately and their responses makes no sense and makes DCUM people mad...

I've seen them in Jobs, real state, schools, college, adult children, parenting, etc...[/quote]

Are you the person who keeps posting about interlopers?  I've been on here for 2 years (after decades away) and in the last two months it seems like there's one person in particular who is upset and keeps using that word.

Please consider that you might be in the minority about how upset you are.

The regional forums are very slow.  NYC barely active.  Chicago and LA in the a few posts a year category.  People don't want to use those subforums very often.  Many people browse based on Recent Topics because they want to be part of active discussions, not post something and come back weeks later.

For example, I had better luck posting a question in the generic Real Estate section than the California section (with an appropriate geographic header).  I've learned more than a few things about California school admissions from DCUM and something helpful about real estate from this site.  There are both current Californians, former Californians, and DMV people seeking to send their kids OOS to California schools here.  I don't have trouble distinguishing between these groups when necessary.

The bothered person seems to be concerned about college admissions.  The most accurate advice there comes from high school data that you will get outside DCUM. The rest is just loose context and none of it is completely sourced anyway.  Very few people seem to share OP's concerns about not being able to figure out who is talking.[/quote]

It’s not one person.  I started the thread a few weeks ago in this forum about how annoying it was to have  non-local posters  who post on college forum without indicating they aren’t local, resulting in a lot of inaccurate info, but I am not the op of this thread.  I also am not the poster(s) who was unhappy with the CA poster in the Langley thread.  So there is at least three of us, likely more.

I do think it’s one particular California and a few NY posters who is causing most of issues in the college forum.[/quote]

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