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Originally Posted by Megane
When does a series of posts become meaningful conversation?
When does a conversation become a discussion?
When does a discussion become an argument?
When does an argument become heated?
When does it all get out of control?
When should action be taken?
Should a user be banned? For how long?
Should their posts be removed?
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We should think of how this applies to this thread. Notice how cammie and megane started to push this thread into a flame match? Were they having a dicussion or a heated argument? It all depends on your definitions of things like that. Is AG3's comment
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Originally Posted by AG3
Trying to cool things down might have worked if the habitual flamers were capable of rational thought, which they usually don't seem to be.
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A flame? Should he be banned from the forum for a day or two? Hell since he's a vetran he should be banned for the slightest thing resembling a flame! Atleast that's what someone else thought in his post.
Scolding a flamer/troll does absolutly nothing. It just lets them know that someone has responded to their post and that they can post another flame/troll post.
Trolls/Flamers tend to only flame in certain threads. These threads are usually mindless threads that don't fall under the category of "Meaningful conversation." or threads that have progressed past meaningful conversation into the area of heated discussions. So the best solution is to try and keep everything a "Meaningful Conversation" If a thread recieves a flame counter it with some "meaningful conversation."
Keep this in mind and you too can help fight forum fires.