So much so that you couldn’t wait to engage me in discussion.
Well...yeah. I’m reading a thread I’m participating in alongside you, and see recurring comments about you making strange posts (and you proceeding to make strange defense thereof), so no surprise I go back thru the thread to understand what you two are arguing about. It’s a combination of participation in the subject at hand, coupled with a conversational form of morbid curiosity.
If you’re standing in a small group discussing something, and two people suddenly and obviously get into a heated tangent, there’s no surprise/outrage at others in the group taking an interest therein and adding to that heated discussion - either because it’s interesting, or to try cooling both off (perhaps by noting that the insults were, in fact, warranted).