I'm not suggesting one large sandbox for all the flame wars to reside and/or a new section on the site labeled as such. I'm also not suggesting replacing the existing consideration system for individual offending nodes. Apologies if I wasn't clear enough. Each flame war that spans across multiple threads would be collected in it's own thread.

We have a mechanism for enacting this through consideration. Earlier I mistakenly responded to this thread's parent (me) when I meant to respond to CountZero. I requested an edit to fold the node under his reply. This would not be that different. I also don't think it would involve that much more effort by the community once it's been integrated. If it's not that frequent a problem as you suggest *(Personally, I disagree.) then it should be even less work. If it is more frequent then, I believe, it would be worth exploring.

Please have a look at the article I posted earlier on dealing with flame wars through soft security. It's very thorough with what I believe are some good ideas:
http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/ForestFire

* I'm not simply referring to the last few months or individuals. We have members on our site who seem to, more than occasionally, let there emotions get the better of them, carrying their back and forth across different threads. I wouldn't suggest this just for a random trouble maker that stops by once in a while.


UPDATE
Sunday, 06.Sunday.Nov.2011 :: 7:03 PM :: Added note on personal view of frequency of disruptive threads.


"...the adversities born of well-placed thoughts should be considered mercies rather than misfortunes." — Don Quixote

In reply to Re^2: Method for Containing ForestFires by luis.roca
in thread Method for Containing ForestFires by luis.roca

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