Some percentage of them? Yes. Unfortunately, there's no way to know when that happens, so it's very easy to assume it doesn't.
> My take is that by the time the poster goes through the effort to post, they have adopted [insert view here] into their personal belief system; they're not seeking answers.
If what you're saying is true, what's the logic behind censoring people? Nobody is able to convince anyone of anything anyway.
Because at some point, arguing the same topic over and over and over is exhausting. The impact of greenhouse gases and climate change, for example, has been established as 'a thing' for my entire adult life. And yet people still want to argue about it even existing.
Is that, by itself, a good enough reason to censor people?
Nobody is forcing anybody to argue.
My take is that by the time the poster goes through the effort to post, they have adopted [insert view here] into their personal belief system; they're not seeking answers.
Don't most studies show that fact based arguments only cause people with faulty beliefs to dig in further?