In a mostly-on-topic thread, an issue is raised regarding "personal aspersions". I reluctantly address such issues here. (And do so here rather than there because thread hijacking is rightly frowned upon.)

First and foremost, this forum is about SQLite and related issues. It is not a place where substantial excursions into other matters are welcome or conducive to the forum's purpose.

This forum is moderated to keep it on-topic and free of advertisements and other diversions from its purpose. It is also moderated to keep it a place where people can get help with their SQLite-related problems or report bugs, and to keep its tone such that people of good will are glad to participate, as either help-seekers, contributors or readers.

Posts are often rejected in moderation for deviating from what the moderators see as consistent with the forum's purpose, including "standards"¹ of tone. Certain kinds of language and verbal abuse are often enough to get a non-moderated post edited or deleted.

I speak for all the moderators (I am sure) by saying: We would prefer not to have to edit, delete, or reject posts, and we prefer tending to such needs with a light touch where possible. However, that preference is subservient to keeping the forum generally useful and pleasant.

There are a number of posts here wherein their authors have engaged in "needless" derogatory and even abusive remarks. Readers may well wonder why such remarks are tolerated. If the moderators had nothing better to do, such remarks would likely be more often excised or the offending posts blocked or removed.

For those who find occasional derogatory and abusive remarks overly offensive, I propose a perspective which may make the posts containing them more palatable. They may be considered the equivalent of a verbal tic.² The foul remarks can be ignored, and certainly should not be taken personally. Their emission need not be regarded as wholly voluntary or deserved by the ostensible target(s). They need not be taken to mean anything more than evidence that their utterer acts under some compulsion. The best response may well be to ignore them, much as one might subtly shift upwind of somebody suffering from flatulence while still engaged in conversion with the afflicted.

The moderators are not heedless of tone issues, and do sometimes communicate with those whose contribution is valuable enough to make merely blocking them a suboptimal solution. But overlooking off-topic dreck has merit beyond saving time; think of it as a form of tolerance for the differently-abled.

1. ^{^} I quote 'standards' because the standards are neither published nor elaborated in a manner fit for lawyer-like interpretation.
2. ^{^} See this article on Coprolalia, a less usual manifestation of Tourette's Syndrome.