I use the BS condom and THEN I use the mental filter, but never wear blinders. :~) If I have time left over after fooling around in the music section, I reset the filter and come down here and look at a few BS threads. I TRACE the ones I want to follow and reset the filters. From time to time a friend who kows my interests PMs me a URL for an interesting BS thread. Sometimes I go see, sometimes I don't.

Or sometimes I don't behave according to my intentions-- sometimes I throw off all my filters and just wade into any and everything and make an a**hole of myself all over again. But my PLAN is that when I do that in future, I mix the music and BS so I don't autoclick my way to a place I KNOW will tend to get me more involved that I actually want to be.

Better posting-through-technology to you all,

~Susan