I spend most of my chat group time on a high strung wine taster board. Very often these posts degenerate into arguements, insults and name-calling between the various posters. This is somewhat surprising since I don’t see how you would insult someone you only know through the Internet. Probably represents some sort of Internet road rage phenomena.

On the contrary, I have found all posts on this site to be highly civilized and courteous.

I wonder why this difference? Is because this is more of a help than opinion board? Maybe because wine snobs are just more high strung neurotic people.