Board Thread:Wiki Discussion/@comment-5632187-20150201004349/@comment-4511886-20150201133137

I haven't responded to most of your reply, as I don't really think anything needs to be added to those parts.

Cosmicsilver wrote: Do we feel multiple offenses like this on the Forums would be worthy of an Admin intervening and blocking the user for a short duration? Otherwise, warnings are pointless.

Like I said, reporting is for the sake of the quality of Forum discussions.

The user may not have intended to do harm, but we can't have that as an excuse to let people derail discussions. We can only let people act in good faith for so long before we have to intervene. After all, every discussion should be taken just as seriously, even if some are on stricter boards than others.

Cosmicsilver wrote: I agree everyone in the flame war is an offending party. That is why I think a FW thread should be closed for a short duration until the issue has been dealt with, either between the two users, or with Administrative intervention. This is exactly what I was thinking.

Although it may be obvious, I forgot to mention that different levels of participation in FWs should be handled differently.

User(s) who started the FW play a bigger role than someone who just takes part of it, but how big of a role participants play depends on the amount of posts, and their content, that the user has added to the argument.