One of the factors that keeps this a present issue is that new folks join and don't know this is old, old ground. They start out trying to be helpful and ask a question or make a suggestion, sometimes trying to be funny about it, and then the oldtimers' old feelings get brought back to the fore, and they pile on trying to make their points more clearly each time.
Included in these rehash cycles are the old familiar flames about people's feelings, feelings about feelings, and feelings about feelings about feelings.
So whining about the threads like this isn't exactly helpful, either, then, is it?
Guess it just indicates that people are people and tend to do things over and over, even when they've been proven not to work! And that for all the type and hype, a practical solution that will please everyone has not yet manifested.
I wonder what would happen if, everytime one person here disrespected another one, the whole forum would crash for, say, ten minutes. (Of course this is magical thinking because who would we have define "disprespect" and adjudicate the cases?)
If we realized what it costs us all to slow each other down with bad feeling, would we tend to do anything differently?