For fun?

And actually, what I said earlier and what Mandu said were BOTH true.

You'd have OPs being jackholes because someone DARED criticize their idea.

Then you'd have responders being jackholes in the belief that the idea would be implemented if they didn't raise as big of a stink as possible about it.

It went both ways....and still does, but not NEARLY as bad or hostile.

I disagree. A good percentage of the time somebody will come in with a rude tone. Whether or not that tone was intentional isn't relevant, it's still there. Now that doesn't excuse OPs often freaking out over it, but often times the OP isn't the original instigator, the OP is usually the person that turns the flaming up a notch.

edit: I was responding to post 49, not the one directly above me

Well, the term "instigater" implies intentionally being rude or hostile.

Granted, in written form it is often impossible to tell if someone is being rude intentionally or if it just came out that way.

I was just remarking on the fact that I see a LOT of OPs fly off the handle over responses that I didn't find to be particularly rude. They just didn't like being disagreed with.

Funnily enough, a lot of times it's the same people in multiple threads going off like that, which says to me they just can't handle criticism.

Then there's the OPs that are rude and combative within the OP itself. Those particular ones bring every bit of abuse they get on themselves. You know the ones I mean: The ones that will flat out tell you you're an idiot if you don't think the idea is the best thing ever said.

Usually, the more combative they are in the post....the worse the idea is, go figure.

EDIT: See? It DOES happen! MunkiLord and I are having a civilized disagreement. Neither of us feels any need to insult the other in making our point, which is something I wish more forum posters could do.