I used to get more involved in those threads. Today I am much more selective in the threads on which I will post. Now I read a lot of them, but as soon as I detect high drama, I pretty much know it's not a thread I'm going to be involved with. The other thing you will notice after you've been here for awhile, is that you can tell pretty quickly how a thread is going to proceed just by who is participating. Call it judgemental, but there are some people I just won't respond to their post. I've found it's not effective use of my time.