someguyonthedeck,
I'm also SLF and come here hoping to find a balanced, professional, view of the facts of aviation incidents. Sadly, as you have found, while there is a lot of real factual detail in here from the majority who are truely intelligent, professional and knowledgeable people (not just aircrew but also ground and other SLF like ourselves) I find myself having to sit through what are often little more than schoolyard arguements from a minority of egotistical idiots.
Fortunately the good generally outweighs the bad, you just have to persevere.