Keith. The usual suspects treat the forum as a private club and as soon as the topic under discussion becomes uncomfortable for them they start their infantile tactics:
Discussing weeds, cheap booze and football.
Form into a ratpack and start bullying.
They then appeal to the moderators to close the thread.
Failing all the above they resort to trolling and puerile insults.

They also have a mutual appreciation society, where they can slap each other on the back when they feel they have trounced all contributors.
I suppose we should really feel sorry for them. If you look how many times a day they post, it is obvious they see reality in the cyber world. Perhaps the real world exposes their numerous inadequacies too sharply for comfort. Sad ,sad little men all of them.