Ah, but Joe wouldn't come to the same conclusion. I hate flamers and I wish Mudcatters would have the discipline to refuse to respond to them. Trivial threads like celebrity obituaries are another matter - I've tried to ignore them, and they haven't gone away. Flamers usually act by themselves - if you ignore them, they go away. Posters of trivialities travel in packs, and they feed each other and crowd out everything else - they don't care if others ignore them.
So, every once in a while, I play curmudgeon and speak out against Mudcat Mindlessness; and get accused of being a flamer or troll myself.
-Joe Offer-