Board Thread:Wiki Discussion/@comment-5632187-20150201004349/@comment-4511886-20150201105731

On the point about derailing, I'd say it's mainly down to the moderator/admin's discretion to decide what should and shouldn't be reported.

But as a general rule of thumb, clearly intentional derailing should be reported on the first offense, and all repeated offenses. Unintentional derailing or, rather, not realising you're going off-topic, should be monitored, and repeat offenders should be warned. If they still keep derailing, they should be reported for the sake of the Forum's quality. Unintentional messages should be removed if they boil down to a casual chat between users. That's what the chat room is for.

In flame wars, everyone participating is an offender. I don't care if he called your mother ugly, or he's trying to force his religion onto you. Report the flamer/flame war to an admin or moderator, and ignore it. Leave the thread alone until the issue has been resolved, then continue posting on it like normal. Any further input into a flame war will just stoke the fire.

I also want to point out that we should specify how users should do when other issues comes up during a discussion. E.g if there is a rule/policy change, but that change leads to something else needing to be altered as well.

In my opinion, it should be allowed, as long as the title is still relevant (e.g we shouldn't be talking about Fina on a discussion about Solaire being Gwyn's firstborn, but we can do it, to some extent, if the topic is "Lautrec's motives") and the main issue is resolved, if there was one. Otherwise, a new thread should be made specifically for that topic. Possibly with a link to the thread where the idea originated from.

Of course, it's always prefferable to move these discussions to a new thread, but I think we can give users some room with this without reducing the quality of the discussions.