| There's any number of factors probably at play.
Here's an interesting thought for you - how many of the people posting nastily are in the northeastern and midwestern United States? Because both areas have been having cruddy weather for a couple weeks now. Our normally sunny and pleasant late spring and early summer has turned into cloudy, rainy (occasionally floody) ick. It doesn't lead to good tempers. Especially not on what was a semi-holiday weekend.
Not that this is an outright cause for everyone, but an influence? Perhaps...
Anyway, along with P-cat, I'd like to see folks quit trying to work out their grudges, and get back to the business of playing the game. Talk about your game, or cool stuff to do in a game, or great funny bits for your game, or resources you found for your game.
I would love a week where nobody talked about anything on the boards that wasn't about playing the game. | 
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