I think there is a huge amount of mistranslated intent here and not just a little projection either. Fenster can be an arrogant cunt but the idea that he is seething with anger about anything someone else has posted, is not really born out in his posting. I don't think most people are trying to be cool either, that just isn't on the radar on a forum like this where being the coolest dude would not really amount to a hill of beanz anyhoos. There are of course insults, and observations that are taken as insults, but then there are personal things and those that go over the line. Wishing death on posters has gone on since the day I joined, often by the same people asking for it to be a banning offence whilst threatening to top themselves.

The Des thread situation could easily have been avoided if people had not assumed the worst of all posters who did not subscribe 100% to their own very personal world view. That is the premise on which it was started, the idea that other posters were such low disgusting human beings there would be no depravity or abusive situation they would refuse to defend. That is the long and short of it. To be honest I log in every day to 20 dislikes from posts made months ago and have been called the most heinous things, including worse than somebody who drills holes in children's heads, so I am not sure there is anything that can be done on a forum in which people like that are given free reign. It is part of the 'Freedom' to post relatively unmoderated I suppose.