Now I'm really confused. I didn't think we'd met, so how did you know?
indeed, especially if that's a nice dark porter or stout in there... if it's an IPA we might see some beer rage.
You're spot on with the "forum rage" observations. Take a bunch of uptight, pedantic, detail oriented Type A people, remove the face to face interaction and you have a recipe for the sort of squabbling seen on one or two other aviation related forums. I no longer even read most of them, because I know and like some of the people on them -- but they come off as complete jerks a lot of the time on line.
There may be one other factor in play here. If someone were to do something in the air that really torques someone else, they'd have to land, taxi, shut down and get out of the plane before confronting him about it. That's a lot of time, and lot of tasks that will require concentration on the task at hand, before anyone can go make a fool of themselves. Chances are it's enough time and distraction to let things calm down a bit.