Surely if you had the option to hide them, and it was showing all of them by default, to hide them you'd have to acknowledge the existence of the threads and probably read them, though.
I have a feeling that that isn't the way Exo's works judging from previous posts on the matter, but if they were to add a toggle ability with it showing by default, it would indeed be less damaging then it toggled hidden by default.
Now if you were to earn "credit" for reading them (a requirement to scroll through them as well as a timer to force them to at least have that tab open for a period of time) after which you had the option to hide them, that would be the best option, plus then we could laugh at people who made threads like this because it would be acknowledging that they never even bothered with the pinned topics :laugh: