Man, is it easy to give advice to a lot of the people who post there. For what it's worth I try to take their questions as real queries and answer accordingly. Forums can be a strange, strange world with strange people posting the most intimate details of their lives.
Some threads like all the 'God vs. Science threads' are set up to be adversarial. The poster obviouly had one point of view and wanted to share it and 'debate' people who didn't agree with him/her. A more honest looking topic would look like 'Intelligent Design?' Simple, to the point and the question mark makes the thread more welcoming to people with different opinions.
Almost all the Polls the Off-Topic forum has are dumber than a licensed Matrix videogame. (Ok, Path of Neo wasn't bad)
I don't want to get personal so I'll stop here. Just one more thing; a lot of Gamespot posters are surprisingly polite and respectful and very sensitive when the subject's serious. That being said, there are a lot of 'less mentally endowed' people on there as well.