>> The number of posts always rises significantly when the usual suspects
>> get going. Bit like the crowd around a pub fight I suppose.
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I've always likened a good forum to a noisy pub, and the participants to actors in a soap opera.
No one is real - everyone is playing a part, having selected the character they would like to be.
So I've never taken spats and flounces seriously - people are just following the script - my character is going to be provocative now, or throw a tantrum, or be rude about X or Y.
It's a bit like MPs in the Commons, except that we can't be buddies afterwards because we don't exist.
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