The thread in question contained seven pages of that forum's membership -- including apparently its senior members and staff -- calling Ayoob names and making really crass comments about him. Wasn't til the last couple pages that anyone started rising to his defense.
Started with this:
-Why does anybody listen to anything this irrelevant old bat has to say? His time has long come and gone.
And this:
-Fetal alcohol syndrome all grown up
More:
-Imagine what he has stashed under that retarded ****ing hair piece.
-Massad looks like the old security guard at the mall that you dont let your kids talk to or he'll offer them a piece of pocket candy while he lights up his 10th cig for the day.
-Or the old guy that just sits at the lgs talking to the owner because he has no real friends, and trys to talk to you about which one is better as you attempt to browse.
-But how in the world does a guy with zero creds become a dominate voice?"
-No ****ing clue why anyone listens to the rug. He has an opinion about EVERYTHING!
Hungarian cabinet making? Here's the rug.
Polar vectors for icbm launches? Old ruggy knows what's what.
How many tiny marshmallows fit into a Northern black rhino's butt? Here's rug with some 411.
**** you irrelevant turd!
-Anyone who wears black long john tops with a tan collared shirt deserves to be shot.
Obviously, THR would not tolerate anything near this level of disrespect.
But the point is, in a huge firearms forum (more members than any other, I believe) readable to anyone with internet access -- non-gun folk, anti's, fence-sitters, etc. -- this is the kind of stuff people will read.
Just further polarization within our community. Shameful.