Tolerance lost while waiting for CB?

[Xordan]

Well, closing doesn\'t seem to work very well here, the flaming continues as always
As for mods showing favourism.. well I won\'t comment on that... we\'re not supposed to comment on how mods do their job (I think), so back on topic.

[Cirque]

The blatant flame posts could always be sent to the trash can, where they can still be viewed but do not interfere with the flow of a thread.

The Americas Army Tracker forum mods remove flaming posts and it works a treat. The thread starters commonly use their own discretion when it comes to threads they have started. If its quite clearly going off the tracks then they close it before a mod has to jump in.

If people flame the mod because their post is removed and get banned its their own problem. Do the crime and do the time.

As long as the mod views everything objectively, logically and without bias its all good.

[Vengeance]

Over the years, the forum mods here have deleted *thousands* of posts that were harmful, flaming, insulting, pointless, spam, or what-have-you.  Overall, I don\'t think people miss them, and in general I believe that people are pleasantly surprised when they come to our forums of how nice everyone seems and how helpful they are.  :-)   This is partly because all the hatefulness and spite is deleted.

Thread locking is also a useful tool but is used in a totally different way.  I lock threads if I feel that the discussion is valuable or informative (not useless or harmful), but if I feel that everything has been said and it is getting repetitive.  I often delete posts in threads I am going to lock, as well, to lessen repetition and mano-a-mano arguments at their ends, then lock them so they are clean forever.

- Vengeance