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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm sure you will consider this mean, OP, but that's not why I'm writing it. It just strikes me as odd when people come on here asking everyone to be nice when that is clearly not the character of this particular message board. Who are you that you expect everyone else to change just to make you comfortable? We can check with Jeff but I really don't think the mean posts are written by a few disgruntled people. I think a lot of people like DCUM the way it is. Nobody has a gun to your head to read the mean posts, or to even come on here at all.  (Once you've been on here a while you will be able to tell pretty quickly whoch threads are likely to get snarky.). There are thousands of other message boards if this one is not right for you.  But coming on here and expecting something different from what it is seems either very naive or very entitled, or both. 
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NOPE. The mean spiritedness detracts from the purpose of DCUM. [b]It's intended to be a support forum from what [/b]I see. So how does snarkiness help? One can write to vent about their struggle with weight loss and can expect to be called a cow. One can write and grieve about their deceased child and be told to stop being whiney. That's what DCUM threads can turn into. So how is that helpful? Yes, the mean posts are often times written by people who are angry.[/quote]

Genuine curiousity: Where do you see this? How do you glean this "intention?" I just looked at "About DCUM" and don't see this theory validated at all.[/quote]

It absolutely was created with the intention of being a support forum. It's probably also for entertainment but entertainment for the purpose of providing or giving support, not for mocking other members or insulting them for your entertainment value. Here is where you see it validated by the way:

DC Urban Moms Online: Click for Support, Advice, Home Remedies, Gossip, Political Rants
By Shannon Henry
Special to The Washington Post
Tuesday, May 3, 2005; HE01

While 4-year-old Michael spins circles around the toy-filled living room and 4-month-old Evan bounces in a baby seat, Mom and Dad peer at the screens of nearly identical silver PowerBook computers. Maria Sokurashvili and Jeff Steele, home for the evening after work, are tending to their other baby -- [b]the online parenting support group called DC Urban Moms.
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