Zephyr Etiquette

There is some disagreement in the zephyr community regarding proper zephyr etiquette. Trying to come up with something that everyone will agree with could take a while, and it would probably be ignored anyway.

In the meantime, here is a message from a once-popular t shirt.
See Dick drink.
See Dick drive.
Don't be a dick.

As in any virtual community, some people undergo a radical personality change when using zephyr. However:

just because ``anything goes'' doesn't mean we don't form vivid opinions about people's personalities, or lack thereof.

Experimental evidence suggests that it is inappropriate to

• upon discovering a new instance in use, send the Bible to it one verse at a time to find out what the instance is for
• plusplus every username you can find, because you're having a good day
• OR do something unReasonable, just because "he started it!"

You need not feel obligated to join arguments, since most (if not all) can be reduced to a previously solved problem. Simply apply the following heuristic with appropriate values for bracketed quantities.

Here.  I can finish this one for you, too:
<Academic research> is <useless>
Is not.
Is too.
No it isn't.  It <produced foo.>
Not really.  <IBM invented foo, but they never really sold it.>
Like that counts?
I hate you
I hate you.

Thanks to rochberg++, this process is now semi-automatic:

--------------------  clip 'n' save  -----------------------

(defun zephyr-finish-flame-war (a b) 
        (insert-string (concat "\nThrough the wonders of modern AI technology, I
can finish this flamewar for you:\n"
        a " R00lz\n"
        a " Sux\n"
        a " Rules\n"
        a " Sucks, besides " b " rules\n"
        b " sucks worse\n"
        "*you* suck worse\n"
        "I hate you\n"  
        "I hate you, pigfucker\n"       )))