It's been getting bad lately. Those of you doing it are violating posting policy. Get it under control now. It's ok to post strong opinions, and strong disagreements, but we are cracking down on the personal insults.
If you want to clean things up Jeff, just set the site up where folks have to post under their own name. Case closed.
Maybe, maybe not. I, unfortunately, know a lot of folks who are just as big a-holes in person as under any message board alias they might chose. I'm not necessarily referring to any one on this board; I'm just making a general statement that some folks will say the same obnoxious things under their real names as under an alias. I will admit that for others this requirement might have salutary effect.
One other thing to keep in mind is that there are some folks on this board who use a screen-name not to hide behind snarky comments or personal attacks but simply because they need anonymity for other very legitimate reasons. I'm not talking about myself, because I could live with a real-name requirement. I'm referring to private communications that I've had with some others -- who are very valued members of the BA community -- who would simply drop out if such a requirement was enforced. And, again, these are not the folks to whom Jeff's remarks are directed.