And, lately, people who are frantically trying to get their "Judgemental" badge

Yes, but the major problem is the who in their right mind would click ydi on what is obviosly a pretty ****** up and/or really sad fml?

I get the feeling there are some people who click YDI no matter what the post actually said.

Sometimes while scrolling I accidentally hit the ydi button

How is this the medias fault... The mpther wasnt paying attention so her child almost died.. She should pay attention

63 was saying that media made her believe that op was a creep trying to molest her child, it also makes her believe that she needs to always be on her phone for some reason or another, so really if she spent as much time that she does on the phone and watching tv that she spends watching her kid this wouldn't happen (damn that felt long)

You're throwing logical into an argument that I already agree with - I'm not saying the woman is right I'm just saying that society has a whole has become so terrified of pedophiles that they automatically assume any person that takes ANY interest in their child is a pedophile. It's the reason why when a 6 year old girl comes up to me at work [I teach karate] to give me a hug and say hi I have to be very careful about how I react.

You've got a good point there, 71. I think we swung from 1 extreme to the other as a society: from sweeping it under the rug & pretending it never happens to seeing predators everywhere. We need to find a middle ground somewhere.

Yes we do, but also understand that we don't know how this went down or what i looked like - While I think everybody agrees the parent should have been monitoring her child instead of being on the cellphone taking her distraction aside seeing somebody grab your kid can look pretty bad no matter what. I imagine simply saying "Ma'am your kid was about to walk into a crowded intersection and I wanted to spare that from happening, I apologize if I startled you" could have diffused the situation