Yesterday's Most Active Posts

Of all the threads created yesterday, the one with the most views and most replies was in the "Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS)" forum with the title "Student walkout". The thread is about a planned student protest against Virginia Governor Glenn Youngin's recently announced policy regarding transgender students. I knew this thread would be the most active the minute I saw it and it led the site in replies despite my removing at least a dozen posts that were inappropriate, off-topic, or replies to such posts.

With the exception of the posts I removed, the thread actually managed to generally maintain a fairly high-level, respectful tone. Much of the discussion delved into the wording of the new policy and how it should be interpreted. Threads dealing with transgender issues have become the most controversial on DCUM and seem to go down the drain quickly. However, because this thread tended to focus on the policy rather than opinions about transgender students, the problematic posts that I expected didn't materialize in large numbers.

Another thread that maintained a more polite tone than I would have expected is titled, "Mom with 1 kid vs more kids have more time/energy for herself" in the "General Parenting Discussion" forum. This is similar to the near constant Work Out of the House Mom (WOHM) vs Stay at Home Mom (SAHM) debates but with a twist. In this case, it is WOHMs with two or more children vs WOHMs with one child. SAHMs are left on the sideline. However, somewhat to my surprise, the thread didn't actually turn into an "us vs them" slugfest. Instead, both groups conceded points to the other while providing additional perspectives and frequently agreed on things. So mundane was this thread that I didn't even know about it until this morning when I checked which threads had the most views and replies yesterday. Not a single post had been deemed worthy of reporting.