User blog comment:Legionwrex/What's with the flamewars on blogs?/@comment-70.143.65.92-20120731073204

Reasons are three:

A) Trolling and generally acting like a !@#$ online is culturally in vogue this year (see the trollface craze)

B) The Mass Effect community was seriously messed up by the whole ME3 ending controversy. That much anger is gonna end up spilling over into other issues instead of remaining focused.

C) It's election year, in the US at least, which means civility is out of the window throughout society.