Rides_A_Red_Horse, your post 433 contains the accusation at the root of this outrage.
narses, the statement was expressing her mind ("you sound exactly like...") it was not reading yours.
Nevertheless, it was making the thread "about" another Freeper personally and was therefore a form of "making it personal." And this entire sidebar continues in that error keeping the discussion away from the issues and centered instead on claims of indignation.
Discuss the ISSUES all you want, but do not make it personal. Discuss the MESSAGE, not the messenger. No ad hominems.
Also complaints about groups of believers are not "making it personal." For instance, "Baptists are heretics" is not making it personal whereas "You are a heretic" is making it personal.
That said, repeated childish insults and allusions (e.g. Godwin's law comparisons) even when addressed to a group of believers (e.g. they are mouth breathers) - serve no purpose other than to incite flame wars. Any such post may be pulled for trouble-making.
“Any such post may be pulled for trouble-making.”
But 506, 515, 516, 519, and 521, all of which contain childish insults that serve no purpose other than to incite flame wars, pass without comment.