Somewhere were they didn't get pointlessly mocked? By the Fun and Friendly local Gammon Gang ?
I am aware of a certain thread drift - inevitable perhaps, it's a conversational forum, but I am not aware of any mockery, at least not anything remotely offensive. I was a tad surprised to get an alert telling me that there was new activity on a thread I opened ages ago, but what I see is a lot of time for/respect for/affection for the bod who wrote the original article.
I well remember a few years ago getting into a conversation with a retired copper from Rochdale in St James' Park London about Grayson Perry * and bike bits - can't remember why - maybe because I was strolling with my bike. He was a fan and had trained it down to London partly to see a small exhibition by him at the National Portrait Gallery.
* Momentary brain warp meant I had forgotten his name - didn't want to scroll upthread in case I screwed something - so I opened a new tab and googled "transvestite potter" and up the required info (and pics) popped - maybe that makes me a bad unreconstructed person?
Don't understand the "gammon" reference - feel free to educate me.