I can relate to this, I joined multiple racing car forums and got flamed from the get go, Being it was my first forum experience I tried to defend myself not realizing that only makes it worse. Needless to say they fried my hard drive, found pictures of me as a very fat child in high school and made posters out of it, and then put it everywhere online. They also called my job and tried to get me fired as well, knowing I have a 5 year old child to support. This was over a year ago and they STILL talk about me to this day. In fact, they have some of my threads sticky'ed. LOL
Many of them have NO morals or manners to speak of and sadly a vast majority are young military

At least on the Auto forums....