In the olden days, before chat sites asked for you to log in, many people chose a name for each topic or thread. A coversation usually had very relavent names. In that environment when you attacked the opinion with its name it was very apersonal.
Many people came here with that attitude and it took time to learn that people associate with their screen names, especially when it is their actual name. The assocation is due to the fact that you use it consistently. It is your online identity. It can get insulted and embarrassed.
When you are face to face to a person you naturally behave more friendly than to an opinion you just read while scrolling down. To an article you tell yourself, “what a stupid thing to say or print.” To a person you say, “Yeah, but I don’t think so.”
Those of us who stuck around have built up a personality and it should be natural to speak in the face-to-face manner. But, it takes time to learn that and it can be explained patiently.
For the same reason, there are some newcomers that make many screen names and post wild content. It is called, having fun. They didn’t have a chance to realizee that people are trying to have a normal conversation and they are being a nusance. That, too, can be explained, patiently.
Thank you for reading (and modding) this, patiently.