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The SOCCER board. Crazies.

Do you think DCUM moderates fairly?

Sometimes I’m surprised by what gets deleted or locked, eg it seems fairly innocuous. I recall being really interested in this thread on traveling to India (I was thinking about a trip) and it was locked because someone was posting about safety for women travelers. Seemed like a fair discussion and I didn’t understand why it was locked.

But other times it seems like there are really disruptive and aggressive posters who don’t seem to be restricted at all. I often wonder if some of the nasty posts are from the same poster as there are a few who seem to have a telling posting ‘style’, but who knows?

Anonymous wrote:Surprising to me, diet and exercise. So much anger towards people who want to use a GLP

Yeah, that whole thing is weird af

Perimenopause is actually sort of nice. I’ve received some very good advice.

Surprising to me, diet and exercise. So much anger towards people who want to use a GLP

I think the relationship forum gets really strange. If someone posts about a marital problem, people immediately say the OP should leave their spouse and then attack and shame them for debating or wanting to stay. And if they have dc ‘what kind of model are you being for your child!!

Same with some of parenting forums. 75% of the posters will jump on the OP and tell them everything is their fault and they are terrible parents.

Politics. I haven’t noticed anything all that terrible there other than some MAGA snark. But I expect that these days.

The people in the college forum are surprisingly small-minded. Not all, but the overall perspective feels small and tight, which I wouldn’t have expected. I always associate education with a kind of expansiveness and curiosity, but that is definitely not the vibe.

Politics is a dumpster fire and I’m convinced is filled with bots and trolls, probably paid foreign influencers too. Sure feels that way.

It is the entire site. Literally, it is one big anonymous competition. My child is more special needs than yours. My ex is worse than yours.

The real estate forum (“where should we live”)

Money & Finance (“am I rich”)

Basically, any forum that brings out the competitive nature of the DMV

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Politics Forum, which got so toxic that several years ago, Jeff had to move it out of Recent Topics.

+1

+100 A lot of nasty people emboldened to say awful things on an anonymous forum they could never say in real life.

Anonymous wrote:The Politics Forum, which got so toxic that several years ago, Jeff had to move it out of Recent Topics.

+1

The Politics Forum, which got so toxic that several years ago, Jeff had to move it out of Recent Topics.

Relationships
Diet and Exercise
For sure college

But really all the sub forums on this website attract a certain Type A, hypercompetitive, humorless type that tends to flock to DC.

I assume college does but I’m not on there often.

Where else?