"I have found that the negative threads, trolling, name calling... are more often in the posts below the line, in the BS section of the forum."

Which is precisely the point of the BS section which, incidentally, is where this thread should be.

With one or two obvious exceptions, I don't believe that UK members are any more arrogant, snide, unpleasant, obnoxious (or the pejorative of your choice) than those on the Western side of the pond.