I find it very easy to forgive people for being occasionally crap. I find it very easy to forgive people for being consistantly crap in an area where it doesn't really hurt anyone.

I find it hard to forgive meanness though, and I don't have a lot of respect for cowardice. And this particular rant was inspired by seeing numerous incidents of both coming from people I otherwise like. And because it's easy to do with this particular tool - as opposed to say Usenet, where all your wobbling warts aere out in the open for everybody to see - I see a lot more people slipping into that behaviour who I would rather think were above it.