C'mon, guys! What do you want? How about if I post a prominent sign in post/reply pages reading "NO JOKING" like they have in some airports?
And how would I enforce that?
Look, this is an OPEN UNMODERATED forum for any and all to use to say whatever they want however they want. If you don't want to engage in any kidding around, just skip it. Personally, I find some of the satiracle posts to be extremely effective. Isn't it interesting that so many people who are familiar w/ the industry and the culture it embodies have to do a double-take?
And the occasional self rightious demand that these folks quit making fun. :roll: Don't you get it? A major element of the troubled parent industry is all about taking vulnerable kids who are on the outs w/ their families and heaping upon them unbearable levels of humiliation. But put a much softer shoe on the other foot and these same people get downright indignant! I think it's funny as hell, myself.
Until you've lost your reputation,you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/068483068X/circlofmiamithem' target='_new'>MARGARET MITCHELL