It was titled "Complaint and Debate" forum, which may have tended to give it a rather confrontational tone from the get-go, as opposed to what you were suggesting -- but once you allow free unbound OT, for the crowd at that time at least, it did get pretty "in your face" at times and some folks got ticked, and complained when they felt others had crossed the line of reasonable public behavior. (I knew I had a period around here somewhere)