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warrprayer

(4,734 posts)
Mon Aug 5, 2013, 01:30 PM Aug 2013

does anyone else enjoy reading the hidden posts?

For reference, it used to be once a post was hidden, nobody could read it. Now, you can hit "show" and see what is hidden. This serves several purposes. The most important being one can read the offending post and know not to post something like that. But, in a way it is also like opening a fortune cookie. Most of the time the posts are justified in being hidden and are nasty. But, occasionally there are funny ones. Is there something wrong with me?

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does anyone else enjoy reading the hidden posts? (Original Post) warrprayer Aug 2013 OP
They're like 'forbidden fruit'... n/t PoliticAverse Aug 2013 #1
exactly!!! warrprayer Aug 2013 #2
Yup ... & nope In_The_Wind Aug 2013 #3
Hello ITW! warrprayer Aug 2013 #5
It makes me curious, then sometimes .... sorry that I looked. In_The_Wind Aug 2013 #7
great picture.... warrprayer Aug 2013 #8
... PoliticAverse Aug 2013 #9
also In_The_Wind Aug 2013 #13
If something is wrong with you, it's wrong with me, too. Arkansas Granny Aug 2013 #4
on rare occasion warrprayer Aug 2013 #6
Absolutely. AnotherMcIntosh Aug 2013 #10
wanna' make sure a post gets read azurnoir Aug 2013 #11
Of course I read them. Wait Wut Aug 2013 #12
I read them all, even mine nt geek tragedy Aug 2013 #14
Like an ant to spilled sugar. nolabear Aug 2013 #15
ALWAYS 2theleft Aug 2013 #16
yes. nt raccoon Aug 2013 #17
always newcriminal Aug 2013 #18
I do, so that frogmarch Aug 2013 #19
I LOVE hidden posts. cliffordu Aug 2013 #20
I always read them. Callmecrazy Aug 2013 #21
I know better than to hit "show" ... JustABozoOnThisBus Aug 2013 #22
I open, hoping for a gem of hilarity. Dash87 Aug 2013 #23
I think it's natural curiousity... Rhiannon12866 Aug 2013 #24
I've never had a post hidden, they sometimes get locked and are still visible. jakeXT Aug 2013 #25
I've had one hidden warrprayer Aug 2013 #26
I purposely look for them graywarrior Aug 2013 #27
I always read them. The Velveteen Ocelot Aug 2013 #28
yup, same reason I think that flame-out topics leading to pizza are popular Spike89 Aug 2013 #29

Wait Wut

(8,492 posts)
12. Of course I read them.
Mon Aug 5, 2013, 02:22 PM
Aug 2013

If it's someone I don't care for I can feel sufficiently righteous in my self-righteousness. If it's someone I like, I can be outraged at the unfairness and failure of our DU jurors.

It makes my head explode a little when the poster is someone I dislike and I disagree with the verdict and vice versa.

nolabear

(41,963 posts)
15. Like an ant to spilled sugar.
Mon Aug 5, 2013, 02:50 PM
Aug 2013

Who wouldn't want to know what's deemed to be "bad" around here? And sometimes I agree and sometimes not.

Callmecrazy

(3,065 posts)
21. I always read them.
Mon Aug 5, 2013, 04:19 PM
Aug 2013

It helps me determine the daily mood on the boards. Some days you can say almost anything and never get alerted; other days people pick fly shit out of pepper and before you know it you're in the doghouse. So yeah, I read them to see if I should bother joining in or just sit back and lurk.

warrprayer

(4,734 posts)
26. I've had one hidden
Tue Aug 6, 2013, 03:20 PM
Aug 2013

it was a cartoon sketch of Snowdens testes, claiming that they are so massive they distort the space time continuum. Bad taste, I know...

Spike89

(1,569 posts)
29. yup, same reason I think that flame-out topics leading to pizza are popular
Tue Aug 6, 2013, 05:25 PM
Aug 2013

No one likes the trolls, but it seems that when one breaks cover and starts spouting RW nonsense, everyone wants into the thread before the pizza is delivered and the thread gets locked. It is sometimes funny, often gruesome, and sometimes so dismal that I wish I hadn't seen it, but it is addictive.

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