Actually i'm going to agree with you guys, it seems we're getting somewhere.
Potenz makes some good points, as well as Yellopaw and Jimko. Ironically enough, in the end it seems it's our inability to not feed the trolls that starts the downward spiral of "forum dueling".
Reminds me of something i read by a poster in SimHQ once: "The forum is a place where real-time virtual pilots come to play turn-based verbal combat"