No need for "BS" Bonnie. If you want to try an entertaining little experiment, pick a long thread that you feel has become unecessarily contentious...eliminate the posts that (you feel) contribute nothing to the original intent, and the "oh yah? yer mother wears army boots" posts, from the folks who NEED conflict in order to communicate. You'll be amazed at what you're left with. Quite a few intelligent people, who make their points articulately, and can LAUGH (privately) at the disrupters, rather than rising to the bait.

The important thing is you HAVE to trust that others silently see idiocy the same way you do. They're just too smart (or too busy) to keep it going.

Rick