... that dude just seems perpetually fucking angry, aggressive, on the offensive ... I guess that's his shtick or some shit, pretty obnoxious; so I refrained.

But yea I'm with you. It's a message board. The whole purpose of said message board is to kill time, bullshit, spew your opinions and bounce ideas and thoughts off eachother. So long as folks are willing to (semi)humbly accept an L if they ultimately turn out to be loud and wrong who gives a flying fuck.

It's a message board, for fuck's sake. We're not journalists.