Yep, chess.com is loike any other rich-veined community... full of good and bad, sane and insane, rich and poor, ignorant and bright ... and accepting people for who they really are is much easier when they're not ignorant, rude or stupid.
We only visualise one side of people on here and it tends to point to their intellect because that's the side we tend to share through our posts. We often can judge books by covers too because it's usually a good indicator of what to expect. If the cover of a book says 'Bible'... we pretty much know what it's about.
Well, of course I can only talk about this banana monarchy... it's not like I've been travelling around the world lately.