[derekgas]

I dont agree there is a clique, there are people who know each other personally, and therefore are more friendly than they may be with 'strangers', unless that, in your opinion is a clique, then there are people on here that I dont know personally, but have high regard for due to the quality of thier posts, there obvious intellect, and thier ability to post disagreement without sounding harsh or abrasive, I still say that rather than being bullied, when people disagree with your opinion, and say so, in a fairly polite manner, that your return posts are usually more abrupt, harsher and more abrasive, therefore people will view your posts (therefore yourself) with contempt, I can only think of two other people (and I will not name them) who's posts are sometimes more abrasive than yours, they also recieve plenty of negative unsigned karma apparently, seems to me there is a pattern.