Well I may well be one of those "fuckwits"/flamers/trolls/shit purveyors in someone or other's eyes, but let me just finally, hopefully definitely finally this time, tell y'all this much.

Ahem.

There is NO RULE around here that obliges you to open a thread. If you are of the opinion that a thread is populated only by several repetitive and obsessional bigots, you have formed that opinion ONLY BECAUSE YOU HAVE REPEATEDLY OPENED THE THREAD. There is no other way that you could possibly arrived at your opinion.

Now there's nothing intrinsically wrong with doing that. You may be wanting to study the antics of the truly insane, for example, for your next thesis. Good for you. But if you repeatedly open a toxic thread JUST SO THAT YOU CAN GET YOURSELF INSULTED YET AGAIN, or BECAUSE YOU'RE WANTING TO FEEL ALL PREACHY AND SANCTIMONIOUS, then you are mad. More mad than the denizens of the thread you are pretending, in your spasms of self-righteousness, to hate so much.

It's really simple. Open threads only on topics you want to talk about. If you open a thread that you can see contains bile, NEVER OPEN IT AGAIN. People who deliberately upset themselves are insane. Simple. You can discuss stuff with the missus or with your mates down the pub. You can write letters to the Guardian or join a political party. But why hurt yourself by opening threads that you find insulting? Are you stupid or what?

Naturally, the guardians of the forum, the moderators, are obliged to expose themselves to all sorts of bile. What a pity that they refuse to sanction the real trolls here, the Keiths, the cheating bobads and the akenatons of this world. It could just be that some of the obsessives you're moaning about (moaning only because you're stupid enough to keep opening those threads, remember!) are actually right-minded people, not purveyors of Jeri's "shit" after all. So they're wasting their bloody time and no-one's listening to them. So what? WHAT HAS THAT GOT TO DO WITH YOU! Leave the silly buggers to it and look up at the stars instead!

Or play a tune!