I agree, and such topics are not just in a topic like this, suggesting a concerted effort by (possibly paid) trolls to destroy FR.
Anyway, this phenom will probably remain unexplained for a good while.
[snip] STEVE appears much lower in the sky, in a region called the subauroral zone. That likely means solar particles aren't directly responsible for STEVE, Live Science previously reported. However, STEVE almost always appears during solar storms like Sunday's, showing up after the northern lights have already begun to fade. [/snip]
Large numbers of stupid and especially gay oriented joking does not improve the tone of FR. At Ukraine War posts I have seen that the pro Putin commenters are likely to use the gay slur in various forms. Americans are entitled to various opinions regarding relative corruption of Russian or Ukraine government officials, but gay slurs or comments like little Zelensky is light in the loafers, do not improve the arguments.
Note to blam: glad to see the grain is starting to move.