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Joe D.your feelings about picking and choosing threads that interest you is spot on accurate.
the missing part of your reasoning: the threads should be ON TOPIC (discussion of primarily Pre-WWII baseball cards). This is not a general forum, it is target specific.
So, when a user consistently posts off topic threads, and is asked very politely to refrain from doing so... but that person feels a need to 'fight the establishment' - ignores polite requests - and continues with creating a multitude of off topic threads, and then consistently bumps those off topic threads to the top when they start to go stale....... well it is a board distraction.
It is not a matter of users choosing to ignore threads they are not interested in.... it is a matter of someone looking for attention by disrupting the board.
edit: forgot one thing Jeff.... how far along are you with those '14 Cracker Jacks. I am thinking of diving in myself. Any advice? Feel free to email me joe@internetville.com