a small addition to the posts located immediately located above mine. cb is strictly regulated in terms of limits put upon civility. personally, and i mean by that "for me", i am glad, happy, and agree. jeff and his posse of moderators do a fantastic job of keeping our board civil.
if you want rough and tumble, go to sosh. i post there on occasion and see the engagements taking place. for example, when one poster disagreed with another, he posted "with all due respect, that maybe the stupidest Edited. Profanity and masked profanity are against forum rules and may result in discipline.ing post i have ever seen. why dont you take your crayons, go home, and spare us all your stupidity." slights, slams, attacks, and ad hominem comments are the norm. such posts quickly detract from the very high quality of analysis that takes place there. reading sosh is like reading high level math and brilliant baseball insights being discussed by emotional 10 year olds.
again, this is me speaking for me. i like the civility of cb and jeff's refusal to compromise on this point. i work upper admin in a major univeristy (though will be moving soon!) and i cannot tell you how draining it is to deal with snide, cutting, nasty comments by faculty.
life is short. cb is fun.