I don't know about anybody else -- I started this thread to try to address a situation in the community that bothered and upset me.

AND -- it looks like I've gotten some answers that may help me not to get so bothered and upset in the future, though in a roundabout way and not how I expected it. I don't know much about living in a community -- one of my many issues, faults, and/or failings, I guess you could say. I can fake it, but I don't have much experience, and don't know very well how to be myself, AND in a community. I got some experience here, thanks everybody for that, and some answers that may work for me personally.

Is there anything else related to the situation of differing opinions on threads that anyone would like to address? Venting frustration about common themes seems very related to the topic. Venting frustration about how people tend to overlook the stated purpose of the forums seems OK, too. But -- those are different topics.

AND, even though we're discussing stuff here, it's in the Community Feedback forum and in the interest, hopefully, of supporting people deal with differing opinions on threads.