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My experience of LW is that:
* the baseline interaction mode would be considered rude-but-not-insulting by most American subcultures, especially neurotypical ones
* the interaction mode invoked by "Crocker's rules" would be considered insulting by most American subcultures, especially neurotypical ones
* there's considerable heterogeneity in terms of what's considered unacceptably rude
* there's a tentative consensus that dealing with occasional unacceptable rudeness is preferable to the consequences of disallowing occasional unacceptable rudeness, and
* the community pushes back on perceived attempts to enforce politeness far more strongly than it pushes back on perceived rudeness.
Dunno if any of that answers your questions.
I would also say that nobody here has come even remotely close to "insult in every conceivable way" as an operating mode.
I should hope not. I can conceive of more ways to insult than I can type in a day, depending on how we want to count 'ways'.
How do I insult thee? Let me count the ways.
I insult thee to the depth and breadth and height
My mind can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the lack of Reason and the craft of Bayes.
Turning and turning in the narrowing spiral
The user cannot resist those memes which are viral;
The waterline is lowered; beliefs begin to cool;
Mere tribalism is loosed, upon Lesswrong's school,
The grey-matter is killed, and everywhere
The knowledge of one's ignorance is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Heh. I'm not sure why you felt compelled to rhyme there, though; Yeats didn't.
I must confess, I have never actually heard the words 'gyre' and 'falconer'. I assumed they could be pronounced in such a way that it would sound like a rhyme. In my head, they both were pronounced like 'hear'. Likewise, I assumed one could pronounce 'world' and 'hold' in such a way that they could sort-of rhyme. In my head, 'hold' was pronounced 'held' and 'world' was pronounced 'weld.'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEunVObSnVM
Apparently, this is not the case. Oops.