The insults are getting personal. Thread closed.
-Joe Offer-

And with that succinct explanation, another thread spiralling down into toxicity was closed down.

I tend to assume that when people do something which they know will produce an effect, that is the effect which they wish to produce.

So it is reasonable to assume that people who go in for trading assaults in threads, though they may appear to disagree on many things, are at one in wishing to cause the threads in question to be closed.