They are turning nasty and starting to create a lot of Report Abuse emails. Some come from people complaining about jonnyhawk, others are coming from jonnyhawk complaining about the responses.

So we have two courses of action here:
1.) jonnyhawk: stop initiating these threads.
2.) Others: if you don't like jonnyhawk's posts, don't respond.

I doubt either one of those things will happen, so the following will happen:
3.) Ban hammer. Once the ban hammer comes, it can be indiscriminate.

The fan base came completely unglued after the loss to Kentucky in the Belk Bowl, and Chris and I couldn't get anything done, so we had a brief discussion and decided to stop officiating these ridiculous threads and just start getting rid of posters who cause problems.

My own personal viewpoint has shifted from "I just got a Report Abuse email. Do I need to get rid of some posts?" to "I just got a Report Abuse email. Do I need to get rid of some postERS?"