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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]I'd remove the language about you being targeted. To be blunt, you may feel that way but it does not really matter. The issues here are agnostic to your feelings: (a) the authors were not up front with you, didn't tell you they would scrape/save the site, and also quoted specific posts after saying they wouldn't (according to what you wrote earlier) and (b) in your opinion their methodology is shoddy, for reasons x, y, and z.[/quote]

I changed the wording of that sentence a bit. I am just trying to explain why I am more than simply a casual observer. I am not only the site owner, but someone who participates in the forum and a parent who has struggled with the school-decision process. In the minds of the report's authors, I am a segregationist.
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The woe is me of all this is absolutely absurd. Instead of being defensive, look at the hard facts of the segregation that does exist in this city, and ask yourself how forums like this exacerbate that problem. Whether you personally believe it to be true, DCUM has a stigma and this “how dare people question us” mood is not helping y’all.[/quote]

DCUM is mostly a free market of ideas. If a bunch of segregation supporters have been controlling this forum, where have you folks been? Why haven't you been posting about how great your local inbound school is and how much you would like others to join you there?

Do you really believe that nobody has ever questioned how this forum exacerbates problems? That happens almost every day. I almost get the feeling that this is the first day on DCUM for a lot of you.

I am frustrated by a bunch of so-called researchers making a mockery of real research, who don't even bother to read their own examples, but then claim to know all about DCUM. They trivialize and oversimplify complex topics. Anyone who thinks DCUM can be adequately explained by a bunch of word searches has no idea what they are talking about. 
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