Also Develop a sense of humour for all the rude , closed minded people on this site. - don't ask questions you will just get abuse, - but the threads are worth reading, but I would be very cautious about contributing.
There are some on here that appear rude, but mostly I think it is just tongue-in-cheek, humour, also, people sometimes cannot convey themselves properly in text so it comes across as rude. To my knowledge there are two people who are rude, one of which I think has left the forum (or been removed), the other still posts (often) thinks he is a better cyclist then everyone else, so is happy to be rude to people. (no names mentioned).
Posting on forums, you sometimes have to have a thick skin, the rude people probably would not have the balls to be so face to face