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Usually the name calling begins when your opponent has run out of arguments. I take it as a sign that he's growing tired and is about to bail to another thread.
For sure there are exceptions, but almost always when the argument turns personal and/or they start throwing in a lot of unrelated stuff to deflect from the argument, or they keep a circular argument that has been adequately refuted going, you know they're out of ammo. That's when I can smugly pat myself on the back and declare myself the winner. (And mercy, some make it so easy to do that.)