Much as I hate to contradict you in public, Jonathan, looking at the Reported Posts and PMs forum, I see seventeen reports that were generated by that thread. Of them, only two are from posters who were vocal in their support of the OP, and only one of them is for an insult - the other was the poster reporting his own post for help with cleaning up some tags. (In full disclosure, the other report was about one of my posts.) The other fifteen reports were all against the OP, or people arguing his side of the issue.
Now, I’m not going to suggest that more reports from one side means worse behavior from the other side. But given that the OP claims that there were rule-breaking posts made in that thread, “over and over and over,” it’s interesting to me that he couldn’t be bothered to report a single one.
I’d also like to note that, if our goal is to quash opinions that we don’t like, we really need to get our shit together. There’s twenty five pages to that thread, including more than a hundred and eighty by the OP alone. He’s basically written a short novella on the subject, and we published it for him, free. If we’re engaged in an effort to mercilessly silence any dissent against our ordained orthodoxy, we clearly suck at it.