It took two and a half pages of this off-topic discussion for you to realise that it was going off-topic. And you are as much to blame as the others for this, if you had ignored the posts against you it wouldn't have carried on, and if you want to respond you can do it privately as a PM, but if someone winds you up, the best thing to do is ignore it and move on, this is a lot easier to do online than some real life situations. This sort of off-topic arguing is far more disruptive than any tags. And back on topic, if you don't like them ignore them, I've never tagged any threads and they are so easy to ignore I can go through 10 pages of a thread and not notice a single tag.