I guess I was being judgmental. When I first came to this forum, I looked at all the sites and was shocked at how pervasive these programs were... sure there were trolls and bad threads on a couple sites, CEDU included. Examples of this would be who sucked who's cock or students who smelled or sluts at school.
CEDU became more juvenile and jack knifes between relevance and puerility. But the times I checked out Elan, it seemed it was just one big pit of malevolence and name calling--not about the school or its practices, but about students.
But I always thought the Straight and Seed sites, among others, were less about trolling and more informative and mature in its debates.