I have the funniest feeling that most of the people on these boards would turn out to be complete and utter p#ssies if they met each other face to face. In the end, writing is so complex, nuanced and difficult. We post things that get totally misinterpreted, and then we continue forward with bad feelings from the misinterpretation, until we get thread devolution like this one.
But that's the Internets for ya!