I'm a participant in this thread and would like to continue to participate, so I'm not going to moderate, but for anyone exhibiting a significant lack of constructive effort in messages not addressed to me I will change their account settings to allow only 5 messages/day. If it continues I'll set it lower.
I'm not going to moderate this thread, but I am going to start limiting post counts for those who become personal, starting at 5 posts/day and going down from there.