M the GM, the tactics you mention are not used by accident, or even through an obvious personality disorder, but are to my mind, used with the premeditated intention of driving posters away from the site and causing it to close; to further one particular ideological agenda.

I have watched over the last couple of years how successful these tactics are, how numbers have dwindled, how each thread has become a battleground littered with personal abuse and nonsensical drivel.
very little attempt to address controversial issues which are raised by members......it is far easier to attempt to bully and browbeat opposition into the dust.

I admire the volunteer moderators for allowing all shades of OPINION here, but I feel that in the interests of the forum, these childish tactics need to be terminated, before there are no posters interested in reasonable discussion left.