Jack, what is happening here is that a gang of Mudcat friends have gathered, just as in a schoolyard, and they are having a great old time picking on "the dweeb", as they have decided to treat WAV in that fashion here.

Kids love doing that, and most adults have not grown up nearly as much as they think they have...so they love doing it too.

That's what is happening on WAV's threads.

If you recognize it as a form of hazing or bullying...well, you are quite correct. It begins at a certain level on the part of a handful of people, then other people jump on the bandwagon, and it accelerates. If those people are all each other's friends, well, then they think it's "okay" to do that and they figure that the "dweeb" deserves everything he is getting. They are emboldened by each other's support.

There have been times when I thought that maybe WAV was deliberately doing the stuff he does here just for laughs...in which case he probably wouldn't mind people making fun of it, but lately I'm not so sure if that is the case. It gets a little hard to figure out exactly what is going on here.