Quite posibly, MMario, except that, as Eliza says;

"the most annoying thing here is when two or three people post in a long and vituperative argument which isn't of any interest to all the others and drives them from the thread"

I hinted at three of the worst offenders, two of whom have retorted in their typical juvenile fashion, quite oblivious of the fact that they are a massive pain to all and sundry.

There's no reasoning with people like that I'm afraid.

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