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Due to something Solo mentioned, about people flaming each other: insulting, rioting, debating, taking up threads, I was thinking this:

We could have a separate forum called "Flame Wars" (lol) or something literary like "Debate Class," and people's arguments would need to be confined there. Obviously there is always a healthy bit of debate involved in most threads, but when it gets out of hand, the poster must take it to the separate forum. Violators would be warned and the post moved by mods.

Madglee, that's like encuroguing arguments.

That's an interesting idea, anyway. 

So, the thread would be allowed to continue, but the flame content would be pulled from the original thread and given its own space?

This was an enjoyable read:

http://www.somethingawful.com/d/news/how-win-any.php

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i do say, teehee, my good sir

YOU FUCKING NAZI.

Haahhaha kiddin'

OMG that is AWESOME LMAO

Nice, hehe.

It seemed to me, at the time I wrote this, that flaming could not be completely taken care of, short of mods deleting posts left and right. Some people aren't able to remain calm and come back level headed, so I thought that if we had a forum for that, anyone not interested in raving, ranting lunatics could just ignore the forum entirely, surfing the rest with the peace of mind that while a healthy debate might exist, no personal attacks, etc, would be there.

I've seen this before on other sites, called "Bitching board," etc. Maybe it's not a good idea.