Don't talk **** if you don't want to get talked **** to.
See, I talked **** to you because you talked **** to me. I did not talk **** to Eldargal because while we have differing opinions I have found her to be polite, cogent, informative, and civil even while vehemently disagreeing. Thus I endeavor to respond in kind.
There's no reason for discussions to devolve, and it is posts like your that encourage such devolution. Did you really have to leap in dramatically and defend Eldargal from a fairly benign response on my part? You went straight to pointing out that I was wrong without couching that statement in much of any civility.
Maybe you could have started with 'I don't think Eldargal was responding to you in particular. I think she was just making a broader point about these buyout predictions.'
If you were concerned about my tone you could have added something like, 'I could be wrong, but it seems like you feel she was insulting you or something, and I do not think she intended to do so'.
Then you could have added something productive and constructive to the discussion like, 'I do agree with what Eldargal said. I personally think that these predictions of a buyout are rather premature. There isn't very much data to go on, not that I have seen at any rate, and it seems an awful lot like wishful thinking to me.'
There's a difference between something like that and what you wrote, which is objectively antagonistic on the page regardless of how one decides to interpret it.
Let's break it down:
The entirety of your post was an attempt to pick out one part of what I wrote and demonstrate that I was objectively incorrect, leaving open no possibility for the error to in fact be yours in any way, shape, or form. As written, you were telling me that I am wrong and you are right.
Second, my response was to Eldargal's post, not yours. This implies that you went out of your way to assert your rightness and my wrongness.
To top it all off, you threw in the statement "You are not legion," which clearly implies that I am in some way self absorbed, grandiose, narcissistic, puffed up, etc. and so forth. The implication was that I believed that I am in fact "legion," which again represented you telling me that I am wrong, only in a more insulting manner.
I think your post was unnecessary, aggressive, and unproductive. That is a pretty terrible trifecta. But you are absolutely right that I have a more aggressive tone on BOLS Lounge than anywhere else on the internet. This is because the posts on BOLS are on the whole both far less constructive and informed than those on other wargaming forums and on the whole more antagonistic and aggressive on top of that.
Most of the time when I post something, even something incredibly benign, on BOLS it is met with derision, insults, umbrage, and hyperbole. This is simply another example. You went right for the throat; jumped right in with you're wrong, I'm right. That kind of behavior is a great way to start arguments.
With more than 8,000 posts under your belt, you should be aware of how to engage in respectful dialog with people of differing opinions. But as you seem to have trouble with that, your 8,000+ post count is a really strong indication of why the BOLS Loung writ large seems to have such a negative and antagonistic atmosphere.
Maybe you should consider the manner in which you post and think about the impact that has on the quality of the discussion on the forums you seem to clearly enjoy so well.