Akwat Kbrana said:

FWIW, I can appreciate Warb's point of view. The purpose of his thread wasn't so much to debate the various merits (or lack thereof) of the Olympic games in general, it was to discuss the particulars of the current games.

I get this, and I agree. My point was he seems to think it is only him, and that people do it specifically to piss on things he cares about. Any one of us could make a thread on something we care about, and someone would come in and make a comment on how they don't care much for whatever it is we are so passionate about. Most of us wouldn't react the way Warbler does and make it into a huge devastating thing, respond telling the other person they are totally wrong without anything to back it but "whatevers".

A respectful, "interesting insights, Zomb, but can we keep this thread related to discussion related to the games themselves?" might have gone a long way. His first response to Zombie and the beginning of the degeneration did include the words, "fuck attitudes like yours". Though I think it was the long quote block sentence by sentence response that encourages further discussion more than anything else.