[One can't really pin the blame on people 'starting a forest fire to burn the thread' if the thread at its core was already an ember traveling from another forest fire of a thread to begin with.
I would ask this: What the hell did anyone expect the end goal of this thread to be?
I will ask you the same question, what the hell does anyone expect the end goal of a thread titled "I'm out" to be? Why is that justifiable, and the "I'm in" thread is some terrible thing? They are BOTH incendiary. If one is to be locked (as was the early posts by certain people, where I don't believe I saw anyone saying that the previous thread should be). I mean do you not see the hypocrisy in that? They both are meant to draw attention and reaction. One is no better than the other.