"No one forces you to be below the line in the BS.'

... and no one forces people to say things that our way out of line. No one forces people to hide their identities so that they can feel real important when they say crude things to another. No one forces people to start arguements just for the sake of having an arguement. No one forces people to stay in the same room with racists, sexists or bigots either.   

No one would force me to allow some of the vermin that lurks in these forums into my home. No one would force me to be civil to them either.    However these idiots can enter into any discussion and be as abusive as they wish with no one to stop them. The moderators try to give us free speech, but the privalage is abused by mental midgets who love to cause trouble.

Look at posts from five or six years ago. Sure there were a few assholes causing trouble, but it was much easier to have a conversation and really discuss things.

Dave is not the first to leave, nor will he be the last. Sooner or later the rest of us will either get disgusted or realize that there is no one decent to chat with.