I stand by my assumption, it’s stood the test of time.
Until today, anyway.
Usually doesn’t mean 100% of the time.
My band is better than your band, we take more drugs than a touring funk band.
gex gex: Dashboard Confessional isn’t emo. 
If I recall correctly, you and I got into this before and you claimed that it’s classified as emo because people call it emo, or some similar circular definition. Lyrical content alone doesn’t the emo genre make, otherwise El-P’s T.O.J. and Eminem’s Cleaning out my Closet would be right there along with DBC.
Fred, we possibly did get on to this before, but it isn’t the lyrical content that puts Dashboard in the emo category. It is, as i said above with reference to punk groups, cultural.
Chris Carraba was in an emo band prior to Dashboard, Dashboard tour with emo bands and yeah, I suppose the lyrics help too. But, it is more than that. Emo has a certain something that screams “emo,” and whatever that something is, it’s found in the songs of Dashboard Confessional. Maybe it’s the song titles, like Age Six Racer, or lyrical style (rather than subject).
But it’s alright. There can be shit emo. Just cause somethings played on MTV, it doesn’t mean that it must be shipped out of the emo category lest everything else be tainted by its touch.
I’ll also mention that allmusic.com lists emo as one of Dashboards styles, amongst indie rock and alternative pop/rock. It doesn’t exactly prove anything; allmusic often gets genres wrong, but at least it demonstrates that I’m hardly alone in thinking this.
But I’ll reiterate my main argument for Dashboard being emo (so it doesn’t get lost amongst my tangents): it’s a cultural thing.