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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nope. And I can be mean sometimes, but try to be helpful. If it's too mean for you, just find another forum. [/quote]

Given that the owner has the ability to delete non-constructive mean posts, then it appears that the meanness is a feature, not a bug of DCUM. I’ve been visiting since ~2011 and the mean levels seem the same.[/quote]

NP. I’ve been head around the same amount of time, and I completely disagree about the mean levels being roughly the same. I’ve always joked that “DCUM is full of terrible people,” but at least it seemed like terrible people sharing their real opinions. The level of trollishness and name-calling is way up. Almost even worse, to me, is the threads that are taken over by what seems to be just two people going back and forth and back and forth and back and forth, usually with juvenile name calling thrown in. So tiresome for everyone else. I would love to see some kind of identifiers if it meant the ability to confirm it’s really just two individuals so everyone else could tell them to cut it out. [/quote]

As someone who has been here for many years, I completely disagree. I think Jeff takes a firmer hand on mean posts than he used to, and I think there are less of them.

The meanness used to be a lot more personal. Like, some nasty SAHM telling WOHMs that they are all terrible mothers, or some WOHM saying all SAHMs are bad role models, or some lactivist saying women who do not breastfeed are selfish, that sort of thing. Now I see a lot less of that, and I sense that people just roll their eyes when they see it. I do now see more people calling each other idiots but it doesn’t seem so personal. It feels less nasty to me, somehow, than the attacks on who people are. [/quote]

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