2009/2/13 Al Tally majorly.wiki@googlemail.com:
Often people don't know they're having a bad day, and may respond more harshly than they would normally. Not their fault, it's human nature.
There's also people's tendency to be liberal in what they send out and conservative in what they accept. I remember one person moving to ban sarcasm from Wikipedia project space. He was inspired to this when someone responded sarcastically to him comparing them to Hitler.
- d.