"Mike Connor" wrote in
:

Some of the "insult" threads are due to long standing members who
"know" each other fairly well, and have had a run-in with each other
at some time or other, being automatically hostile to each other.
Also, after watching ROFF for a while, one gets to know how people
post, and whether what they post is generally worthwhile bothering
with. This colours the reactions of long time ROFFians, but is not
easily comprehensible to "newbies". Much of this repeats itself
continuously, like a program loop. After some time, one can easily
predict the reactions of some posters, and in many cases could write
their replies for them, almost word for word!

Hey, I did that once!

Scott