"You guys just love the taste of blood and the feel of gristle and veins between your teeth."

That's dead right, Carol. Sheer sadism and glee in hurting other people is what keeps certain individuals (either Guests or members) coming back here and posting on certain threads. If you call them on it or object to it in any way they are delighted, because they get the chance to insult you some more, call you a "whiner" or some such term, and to have more fun abusing you further. Our mutual pal Clinton is classic of the type. He enjoys hurting people he thinks are weak. It's a self-perpetuating problem that feeds on itself most greedily, and it will continue as long as the forum remains very loosely moderated as it is now....just as bullying continues among children until adult authority is brought to bear on the problem.

Every bully instinctively feels he has a right to do what he's doing, because he has convinced himself that the people he is bullying deserve it...because they're nerds, they're whiners, they're not as tough as he is, they have it coming. I'm sure that from his point of view it all seems to make perfect sense.