lol; remember the ChiP status that people would get when they misbehaved too much?
I too think that all of this polarization is a bad thing. You can take only so much before it just makes everything taste bad. But sometimes things are just so distasteful that you can't help but comment on it; then someone disagrees, as people are bound to do; and it just gets ugly and off-putting.
I really hate it; in the future, I personally plan on basically trying to just help out, have fun commenting and discussing things, and give/get advice; this is all for the snakes, not a place to form teams, take sides, flame, and argue. On another forum i frequent, things suffered because people had trouble w/ religious differences and putting-down others' religions and spirituality; it is a waste of a great forum when that happens.