You might want to visit some of the rudy threads to see how vicious and unreasonable the rudybots were. Type in the keyword “giuliani”. Drawing your conclusion from this thread is like sittin’ on one side of a battlefield and seeing only one group getting smoked by another.
OK, I’ll check some other Rudy threads. I was on one this morning and it wasn’t the Rudy supporters who were the most vicious, but I’ll look around.
I have to say that a fair amount of flaming has always been a part of FR, though, so I don’t see that as the primary reason for tossing these people out.