They do a good job of getting rid of messages that are just personal attacks. I have very little use for the kind of argument that attacks the poster rather than the post.

Along the same lines, it is very poor logic and etiquette to just make it about the person expressing the opinion. Seems very juvenile too to make the messenger pay for his/her opinions.

I went through 5 years of personal attacks because of the right of free speech on Findlaw's many message boards from 2000-2005. I suppose many people found all the attacks on me very funny; but they did very little for my efforts in making an argument based on good evidence. Lawyers object to making the person the target rather than the evidence itself.

I also believe that it is easier to bully by just attacking the person's character or whatever rather than what the poster is writing about in their opinions.