Necktie : Harry : Vance : 06 Sep 2012 10:57:24am People with extreme views who are extremely loud about them manage to delude themselves into thinking everybody agrees. The more you hear these extremists expressing their opinions, the more you are going to believe that those extreme beliefs are normal for your community. Bolt Jones et al. 1.Namecaller: This defines the flamer. 2. Competitive/argumentative: flamers are fighters; verbal brawlers. We greatly enjoy arguments for their own sake, and will start flamewars intentionally.... 3. Amoral: we think that our insults, verbal abuse, character attacks, and even death threats are perfectly acceptable behavior, once "justified"... - 4. Vengeful: flamers believe that once an insult has been received, it becomes perfectly acceptable to return the insult, or even to embark on a longrunning insult stream... --&gt; 5. Deceitful: we see nothing wrong with deception and distortion as long as we're not caught... 6. Narcisstic: we have extreme vanity, taking the form of an exquisite sensitivity to anything which even SLIGHTLY resembles an insult... Wining Pom : TechinBris : 06 Sep 2012 11:13:49am Disingenuous post. Rephrase into intelligent discourse please. Miowarra is correct and considering it is happening across the whole of the Media and it IS so easy to resolve, one does have to ask if they are being rewarded to allow it somehow. Right and Left, Red and Blue, have absolutely nothing to do with it. Now, Rich and Poor. Oh! How silly of me to over look that! This battle is