And this is not slinging mud?
Against that, one No-Kin-To-Monkeys violated the sacred rule of "Thou shalt not bitch-slap a fellow creo." At the time, embroiled in argument with the receiver of the rebuff, I simply thought that the behavior showed that intellectual honesty in a creo was possible after all. What happened next was a revelation. A howl went up from slappee that No-Kin was obviously an impostor.
I responded to the revisionist exposition of the event. I called it what it was, revisionism, and then pointed out the events using terms equivalent to those he used in the above referenced paragraph. What tone does the VadeRetro quote above display? And how about the balrog666 characterization of Alamo-girl and Phaedrus as displaying invincible ignorance? Those are civil terms?
All this whining over bits of rudeness is pathetic and deeply boring. Years ago, when parents were threatening to storm the field over a botched refereeing call, my son's coach said to the crowd, "The way you overcome bad calls is to score more points."
The issues are on the table. Those who are adult enough to respond to the content of posts, within the universe of the thread, are welcome participants. Those who repeat themselves without considering the evidence so far presented, are not, in my opinion, welcome.
The evidence for this can be found simply by reading over the thread, starting somewhere around post #3500.