I post to share and read to learn. The acrimony and snark is noise and it is something I just scroll past. I'm not going to project the behavior on the comments of an Internet board to the decline of civility at large. There are some good, knowledgeable people here. If you are looking for solid information v. acrimony, it is pretty easy to distinguish --
FWIW, I spent 35+ years litigating out of NYC on a wide range of cases throughout the world . There was a way to handle disagreements without throwing a tantrum.