Originally Posted by loquitur

For what it's worth, let me offer something for people to think about apropos the OP:

If you are composing a response to a post, is it your objective to discuss the issue or to "win?" If it's to discuss the issue, you'll address it one way, but if it is to "win," you'll formulate the post in a very different way. I try to discuss, usually, but if I see a thread is turning into people battling over who wins, I drop out; life's too short to spend it trying to do battle over stuff like this, and no one ever wins anyway.

Unfortunately, that happens all too often around here, which is why I don't post very often.