Could one of the reasons of all this drama be that most of us members are women?
Most of my co-workers are women, there is always drama going on. "She said this and she said that, and do you know what she did now..?" I rather work with 20 men instead of 5 women...lol.
I'm only human, I love a good gossip but if it comes to attacking and back stabbing I'm out of there.
Another reason is, as said above, we are on an internet forum, most of us don't know the others by face and it's so much easier to talk like this incognito.
Hopefully I haven't offended anyone.