Here we can see a prime example of what is wrong with this board
Nah, most of this thread is playful banter and in good humour.
What's wrong with this board is when people take a debate too seriously and start getting actually offended with each other and start name-calling, and they start attacking
the poster rather than
the post, and then carry their animosity off with them, so they can get catty with each other in a different thread. It breaks down quickly into not arguing the point, but arguing about arguing, one of the most pointless things there is, usually with both parties desperate to have the last word, so it carries on long after one or both have said "I have nothing more to say" or words to that effect.
I'm so grateful that the only posters I despise are for things they say about
other people, not myself, most of them aren't even that active in "Talk" and I mostly just report them rather than get into a slanging match. Nobody wants to see a thread derailed by a massive wall of posts between two people having a private bitchfit and detracting from what the thread was meant to be about.