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Thousands of people visit this site each day. It is the most visited site of all the VCI sites. The options that you suggest are already here - you can create polls to obtain opinions, or polls to obtain votes.
Personally speaking, I don't care at all whether people log-in, log-out, post or don't post - they are all adults and nobody is under any pressure to 'perform'. In the last three years the number of people using the site each day has risen from a few dozen to thousands - so evidently there is something here that is informing and entertaining them and bringing them here in ever increasing numbers.
I don't juggle, eat fire or do any kinds of tricks - I think that the majority of people who come here come for information, and there is a lot of that here.
The way it works is that members choose to 'opt in' or not. By going to your User CP (up near the top of your page, on the left of the screen) you can choose how to fix your settings. Selecting 'Subscribe to threads'and 'Notify by email' is the way to get notification of any new responses / posts to threads that you're interested in keeping track of.
On the same line as the User CP there is a 'New posts' feature, that people can use to see when new posts have been added to particular threads, or if brand new threads have been posted.
If you go to your 'user-control panel' you'll find that you can activate a number of 'personal preferences' settings, including the options to be notified by e-mail about any private messages received (You don't have to touch that one, it's been done for you ), as well as e-mail notification about replies to threads that you've opted to be subscribed to. So, if you want 'e-mail alerts' either for a thread you're particularly interested in, or one that you've posted to and would like to track replies to, just use your settings to subscribe to those threads.
There is no automatic notification system, as previous feedback has shown that most people prefer to 'opt in' to an alert system instead of receiving e-mails every time a thread gets a post.
As for the 'underlined words' - those are random 'internally generated external advertisements' (not to be confused with the dark green words, which are links to sources), which play a part in helping the site to pay for its own upkeep. If you keep your cursor away from them, they won't intrude on your browsing. Some people click on them, some don't, some hate them passionately, some just ignore them. You'll find that they don't stay around forever on any post - sometimes 'new' intrusions take their place.
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