Or just used the existing thread, but I guess the louder you scream, the more the need for this type of segregation is defined. I suspect since this forum "doesn't matter" that the selection of its moderators was intentional. The fact that Cobra HASN'T closed everyone one of these is pretty impressive, far from demonstrating a power trip, but "power trip" is always the scream of those who want to equate feces flinging with free speech. Always.
I thought he was a complete idiot prior to this, now, I have to re-evaluate that estimation.
I'd close this if I were him, as a moderator, hurling random feces isn't even a "debate that's gone down hill" its purely antiosocial behavior. The kind behavior that many people, including/especially me, seem to be extremely tired of. By all means, rant like a lunatic, the people who may have initially over-reacted are going to start seeing the pattern exposed in living colour.
But that point will be lost on those who feel the need to keep flinging, its the flinging that gets

of you off, not some noble notion of intelligent debate. By all means, keep proving my point.
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I just realized I failed to take my own advice and not meet rant with rant. Too damn easy to get baited into soemthing. Rather than have this thrown back at me after I delete it, I'll leave it. Might as well leave it as a reminder to myself.
If you don't want something read, don't write it down. Great words to live by...