I look for posters that seem to share an interest in the topics I like. I tend to know what topics individual people like that frequent the off topic section. I don’t really go to the other sections because I don’t really learn anything from opinions and that is all that seems to exist there.
I'll read most any topic cept the ones where the OP comes off to me as whiney or drama. I tend to slame them pretty hard. I seem to get a lot of fan mail from those posts.