"I developed a thicker epidermis just being here, and wouldn't leave lightly."

That is true of many longtime posters here. But that isn't necessarily a good thing. It just means your tolerance level for abuse rarely gets reached. If you tolerate high levels of bad behavior as a habit, you become inured to it. Others don't, and newcomers won't think much of you for insisting that abusive, bullying behavior is acceptable and should be allowed to remain the standard/norm in the forum.