I haven't had a lot of time for the internet recently, so I guess I have missed the offending threads. Honestly, as soon as the tone of thread starts heading down I would avoid it anyways. I don't have the time for it. Period. My 'real' life is already full of negative people and situations at work that I don't need to add to them by reading or responding to these types of posts.

I come here for a break, not to get worked up over internet 'reality'. It's sad that a site like this ends up having some 'bad apples' but that is in every community (online and offline). It's up to each person to choose to respond to these types of posts or ignore them/report them.