Why do we even bother with the pretense that D&D and GC are two separate sections? The original thought was that there would be serious discussion in D&D, and everything else in GC. Instead all the threads in all of the sections look exactly the same. All pissing matches, all the time. I'm not the first person to raise this complaint, but while I didn't agree with her entirely then I most certainly do now.
Now, I admit that I am guilty of the same behavior I am complaining about, but it really does seem to want to suck everyone in because it is there. It really isn't necessary to drag the same shit into thread after thread, so that it doesn't even matter what the OP is anymore, because the entire thread is really about nothing more than who has the biggest e-peen within five posts. There is absolutely no reason to start finger-pointing now. There are a very few people on the forum who are guiltless, and everyone knows exactly who they are without having to have a discussion about it.
Therefore, I am once again going to make the attempt at raising the level of D&D. If the only thing you can come up with to say to someone is a personal attack, don't bother posting it in that thread. Send a PM. Post ugly attacks in a thread in GC if you are only doing it because you get off on performing for an audience. Just stop turning every serious thread into an "oh my god, I hate liberals/conservatives/peoplewhodisagreewithanythingIhaveeversaid" fest.