While I too share your concerns, I think it's a little hard to legislate decency. I know you and I have had disagreements about some things in a couple of threads but I like to think we argued our points in a civilised and intelligent manner. All of the "violations of decorum" (for lack of a better term) and ethics you mentioned above are well... quite frankly... a big reason why some people choose to use the Internet and such services as these forums. The anonymity and ability to say things they would not normally say in a face-to-face meeting is the draw for them. I think the best thing you can do in such a case is to simply ignore them and stand the high ground by only responding to intelligent, well-written and civil posts. I'm sure the other readers can properly filter out the cruft by themselves. That said, I will admit to having made snide posts in the past as well but I try not to make personal attacks.