AVS Forum is a very popular site devoted to all things related to home theatre. You can research HDTV panels, look up TV tuner cards that pick up QAM, and stare in awe at pages upon pages of people detailing their lavish home theatre setups. It’s both a wealth of information and a home for home theatre aficionados and obsessives.

About the obsessives part: AVS Forum has shut down one of its subforums until further notice. It turns out the HD DVD and Blu-Ray forums were seeing more than their fair share of fanboyism run rampant:

We have seen members attacking other members not only in debate, which is the right way, but with physical threats that have involved police and possible legal action.

Threats of physical violence, all because some people don’t like your choice of HD format. I eagerly await the Apple-Microsoft wars of 2016.

Not that the internet needs any more help in identifying dumbasses trolling on forums, but I just thought of the phrase “Annals of Internet Douchebaggery” and thought it was too good to not use at least once. (Also, as you can see below, “User Generated Discontent” is already taken.) So here’s two instances of supreme idiocy.

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