Re: Why do they do it?
You always have to look on the oher side of the coin though. There are those on forums that just sit there and just read, they forget the topic , forget the way the thread is heading, usually off course, ( most threads do), they don't think before they reply and just fire off a tirade.
If someone calls someone else ---Silly --or --- that was a stupid remark ---- you don't know what your'e talking about --- etc etc etc , you have to realise they are NOT SAYING you, personally, are any of the above just that they think your thought process is, which is a totally different thing to what those would call ---- personal abuse ----.
If i said , for example ----- FRED, ( if there's a Fred reading this i am just using a name) --- you are stupid ---or--- you are a Nazi --- or some other libelous remark then that WOULD be a personal attack and rightly stopped. But if i said ---- Fred, sorry I think your'e wrong, then that isn't, that is just saying simply ----I don'r agree with you.
Then of course there are sad sour minded lot that are just venting their spleen because they have neither the intelligence or the ability to argue a rational point, but thats another story.