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Originally Posted by JustAskJulie  So my question is this... if you see a thread posted and the topic is obviously something that does not interest you, why do you open it? ....
And one last night, as it relates to this site. If you could "ignore" threads (turn them off so you can't see them) that don't remotely interest you, would you choose to do so? |
When I post on forums, as I'm starting to do for this one, I generally read just about everything. Most of the fun of such a site for me is reading divergent opinions about mostly anything.
I'm not bisexual, but it was interesting to me to read the opinions of those who expressed them in the thread that I think you're referring to. It's a whole different world, and that's something that is interesting to read.
That said, I definitely wouldn't want to ignore threads.
Speaking as someone who has moderated a large forum in the past, you're never, ever going to get rid of posts like those that you're talking about. That forum that I moderated was a sort of 'industry' forum, where people put their business name and such in the signatures of their usernames. Even the thought of losing money because they were posting controversial opinions (we had political and 'general' forums as well) didn't sway them. I think it's human nature to comment, read, and find interesting things that we find 'outrageous'.