Participation on topics is entirely voluntary. If you don't like a subject, don't participate. There are other people you use this site who might find things interesting that you do not. Don't like it? Shut up and don't respond.
No one's forcing you to read this or reply to it. Don't upvote it and don't comment if you don't like it. Commenting that you feel something is off-topic is against the guidelines, FYI.
Clearly other people than you are finding it of interest.
Maybe you should go back around to wherever you've been around, and not be around here, where you have nothing of value to contribute and no interest in the discussion at hand. The way things work, in case you didn't learn that by being around, is that you don't post messages complaining you're not interested in a topic to discussions about that topic. So stop being around here.
Voicing disagreement that a particular submission does not belong on the site is boring. It adds no value, and becomes noise. In this case, we care more about the general discussion than an individual's desire to voice disagreement.
Telling someone "this isn't interesting to you" in place of "I don't want to talk about it" is definitely not polite!
I'd say it's rude in general to tell someone they won't find something interesting, and especially so when it's done as a way of disowning your own preference not to talk about it.
do you feel smart about your comment? if you're not interested in a topic, don't click on it. why are you spending time and effort to comment on something you're not interested in?
and while I don't see it in the guidelines, if your level of interest in this topic is "Nun", you can just move to another discussion that interests you
Yeah, you're right, I don't care about external contributions. I never wanted this to be a "community" thing. It started as I got interested in the quirks of email and wanted to mess around with the topic. Trying to find consensus etc. just makes it harder, not easier.
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