To me, it looks like "going kittywompus" usually means a member is really, very, strongly attached to Being Right about an issue that comes up, because (s)he strongly identifies his beliefs around the issue with Who He Is. Not Being Right, to that person, feels like a matter of death vs. life, so the struggle gets pretty heated, and he'll lash out in pain and anger, trying desperately to keep a particular belief in place by making personal attacks on other members who believe otherwise.
A lot of times, members will catch themselves and notice how they are creating their own experience, and they'll have a big breakthrough for themselves. And sometimes they're just not ready for breakthrough, and they'll go Full On Kittywompus (FOK) and just *forget* that they can express their opinions, even extremely dissenting ones, without personal attacks, name-calling, or other forum rule breaking.
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