>> Normally I would suggest you grow a thicker skin, but in this case maybe 
>> just a skin,... or a membrane,... or something.
>
> Why? as I mentioned - I can live with it. The issue is when new users post 
> polite, genuine questions and then end up sitting through arguments and 
> abuse. and why should they have to put up with that crap?

Because, like almost every other internet forum, there are people here with 
a lot of time to spare nit-picking every post they can find purely for the 
reason of starting an argument.

For these people their brains seems to work like:

1) Oh, parsing that post it seems part of it could be read as not making 
complete sense.
2) Reply stating this fact in a manner that makes you seem to have the logic 
of a super-computer but the common-sense of a lemming, no matter how trivial 
or irrelevant the remark is to the thread subject.

However most other people work like this:

1) That bit doesn't really make sense, I wonder what they meant by that?
2a) Oh, I worked out what he probably meant, no worries.
-- or --
2b) Hmm, still can't work it out, but it's not important for the thread.
-- or --
2c) OK I don't get this, reply asking to explain again as it appears to not 
make sense.

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