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Or perhaps it isn't. I see this happening often here. Say there's Person A, someone you like, and then there's Person B, someone you do not like. They both post something very true and honest. Why are your reactions to each person completely different? Isn't the content of the post more significant?

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Or perhaps it isn't. I see this happening often here. Say there's Person A, someone you like, and then there's Person B, someone you do not like. They both post something very true and honest. Why are your reactions to each person completely different? Isn't the content of the post more significant?

The content of the post should be more significant, but first one has to get over the fact X person has wrote it.

From my experience, it would seem that as an online community's members get to know each other better, it is easier for this kind of prejudices to affect the way one does read other people's posts. I guess that once one gets a more or so solid opinion formed of the people it does interact with, it is easier to get that to shade the reading of their new posts.

In a way, it's like dealing with the classmate /coworker /etc... who you think is an utter berk. That person may one day come up to you with an interesting thought to share. But before a word is said you may have already thought "Jesus Lord, here's comes this jerk again ._.; " and will have raised the defenses up, thus probably missing on part if not all the message.

Fortunately, in an online forum we have the chance to take as much time as it's needed before replying as opposed to direct communication. So probably taking time to focus on keeping one's opinion about a person as searated as possible from their posts would be helpful.

I don't usually do that, though xP.