DIV, we all know that a picture is worth a thousand words, so let me express this emoticaonesquely
in the beginning, we have a room of people that dont know you. they look something like this
then you walk into the thread like a big swinging nugga, and start laying down psycho-social landmines, in number...
at first, everyone looks like this

but occasionally you get some people looking like this

or
then typically you get a bit of

going on, and then people realise that your comments werent just a one off, there are more...and more...and more of them...so that when you step into a thread and unload on someone, they often look like this

and often
unless they know what youre doing, in which case they sit there and smile, because usually its quite interesting