Without going into too much detail and not posting direct links (check Stealthy's site for a more detailed discussion) . . .
Someone posted on another board something like, "What happened to Ironworks?" and the webmaster got angry that others were using his space to discuss another board. It started mostly harmless and degenerated rather quickly from there.
Stealthy (different pseudonym in the other forum) and I conducted ourselves with civility, even though it was obvious some of us (and more them) were getting mad. It seemed that no matter how nice Stealthy or I phrased our posts, we made things worse. At one point the moderator accused Stealthy of being too nice and making him (the moderator) look bad.
In the end, Stealthy posted a public apology which I followed up on later.
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