Like Richard, I try not to reply if attacked and stay away from contentious threads. In fact, I've decided never to start threads because...
Wait a sec! 😱 I'm getting mixed up with another forum!
In this one, I've never been attacked, and only saw one contentious thread (R's "resignation," timely locked by our uberModerator). Otherwise, I seem to have missed out on a lot of stuff here.
It's almost 10 PM here... and I've already negotiated two glasses of red Spanish wine with dinner... The summer night with cicadas signing in the background has a quite soothing effect...
And so does this thread! 🙂