Side discussion about General Topics forum

[HunterICX]

Originally Posted by Oberon

True, but take for example the Ukrainian thread, this has seen multiple circular based arguments in it, however it's still a relevant thread because the situation is on going and requires discussion. Likewise the 'Beheaded' thread which is the new de facto ISIL thread, that too has dissolved into the usual circular argument, but it's still an ongoing news story that will no doubt spark discussion in the future.

The Ukrainian thread is doing fine as far I have seen, the circular arguments are short and the thread itselfs moves on I see no problem in that.

The Beheaded thread however spirals into the usual
Islam vs Christianity which is worse arguments going back and forth for pages and the thread gets stuck and imo lost it's purpose to serve to continue the discussion.

Originally Posted by Oberon

Well, I dunno about going that far, but certainly it would be better if the moderators stepped in when a circular argument had gone on for long enough and ask the two parties involved to take it to PM, and if they ignored him or her then infact them and if they ignored that then brig them.

Well then what about the following?

-Lock the thread for 48 hours to serve as a time out and give the moderators plenty of time to see who and what had the thread stray of it's path.
-Hand out ''warnings'' to the members having taken part in the circular arguments to no end.
-Re-open and the first one(s) to stray again to the same path gets an own time out in the brig for 24 hours.