Bruce,

>40s here. But I don't think age has a correlation with your post. I know a 74-year-old on another forum that's as nasty as can be, and a 20 year old that's extremely civil always :)

As I said to Nancy, there are always exceptions to any premise you might test, but overall trends is what we *may* see when this exercise is done.

>1) Social attitude today, as permeated through the media. It's largely self-fulfilling and epidemic.
>2) Virtualness - it's often a lot easier to "dis" at a safe distance.
>3) Web people. Those with the inclination to get up and active on the web are primarily pro-active "strong personality" types, that will tend to be more outspoken than those reticent to become web-involved. Web people tend to think faster, and speak faster (order reversed often) <s>

But this survey is related to the *age* of those Web people who are in the Top 50 posters for the past 7 days. Some are more outspoken than others, some more insulting than others. I'm wondering why the difference.