Note: Italics mine not ref's. You make a lot of good points here. The phrase "you waste my time" jumps out at me because it just seems that reading or engaging in idiocy is a personal choice to waste our own time. It doesn't take too long into a thread to be able to decide if you want to choose to read on. It doesn't take too long to decide whether to waste time or to invest that time elsewhere. We have agency. We can decide how to waste our own time. On line, no one wastes it for us. In person, it's similar, but more personal and more difficult to withdraw. nowaypablo 24 hours after instigating this discussion - where do you stand?If you waste my time by being an idiot, yes, I am going to tell you about it. . . . . And because said person has already wasted so much of my time by publicly being an idiot, I want them to know it