This is my last post on this off topic topic as the mods will probably have to come in and clean this up.
What I see more of than anything is posters getting upset when they aren't agreed with. And they view someone posting their opposing view as being snarky when it's not. Sure, there have been a few times that it's gotten out of hand. But IMO, it's not the norm, not worth harping on, and certainly not as bad as other boards.
I see disagreements cropping up all the time, but I agree 100% with SuzQ that it's not snarky at all to disagree - I think it's what makes this board so much better than the others I lurked in before choosing this one to join.
But what I have seen, unfortunately, is that sometimes WS members with "longer life spans" on this board will (1) agree with an opinion voiced by another WSer with whom they've been on the board with a long time, which I think is perfectly fine, but then the WSer will feel the need to (2) go on to make statements to others participating in the discussion about how long the member with whom they're agreeing with/defering to has been on this board in an obvious effort at buttressing whatever position's being taken.
Personally, it doesn't bother me one iota (I tend to think the most highly of a person's wisdom and experience after "seeing and believing," which takes time, rather than hearing from someone else about why I should agree with/defer to/etc.,) and I'm never afraid to "agree to disagree,"
BUT
I do know from external discussion with some WSers after, for example, some of yesterday's exchanges in threads nos. 100-101, that some WSers, unlike myself, will avoid conflict and who feel like when a WSer jumps in to agree with a position taken by another WSer by discussing not the merits of the substance being discussed, but instead how long so-and-so's been a WS member, it's not worth it to bother stating what they think because they haven't been a member as long as so-and-so. In turn, those of us like myself, who like "new blood" thoughts, so to speak, and aren't always too interested in hearing/reading the same thing from so-and-so that we've been hearing/reading since the inception of the case, lose the opportunity to get a fresh perspective on the issue... just my two cents.