True.
But before I was "under attack", it was a good way to find out if I had offended anyone by accident.
Log in, notice your rep dropped by one, check the things you wrote the day before and sometimes you'd find out that, yes, that might have been written in a "heat of the moment" state of the mind, or might have been misinterpreted or simply offending and you can apologize for it.
Now... *shrug*