Situation Calming Committee

What?

No, I want a committee that stops our forum from going to war with itself. This isn't censorship, I would never support that.

Then...tell me again what they would be doing?

Contain, isolate, and ideally resolve an arguement between forum members that has escalated beyond a debate or something.

How. Locking the thread, deleting the posts, stopping the user's from posting?

I'm not going to send a specific list because then everyone will jump like I think that's the only thing that could possibly ever work and will immedietly reject my ideas.

However, since I need specifics to win an arguement here. I would request you take these with a grain of salt though.
They would yes, lock the topic.
They would then open a private thread for both sides to calm themselves down in.
They would act as medeators between the two sides.
Hopefully they would find some common ground and try to settle the blow-out.
Then they would attempt to make ammends between the two sides to try and reverse things as close as possible to the way they were beforehand.

So for an example:

Say, fucking faggot and Crusher got into a debate over hair.
And fucking faggot insulted Crushers' Grandmothers' Hairstyle.
And then a fist-fight broke out between the two of them with each insulting the other side and all that good stuff.

Well then Savior of all Forum-Kind, the Situation Calming Committee would step in and use their Black Magic to lock the thread and open a private thread for both of them, and the Committee, to talk about it in. Then they would use further Black Magic to solve the solution as best they could, perhaps even going as far to pardon them if they feel like serious amends were made.

Obviously a set criteria for this would fail horribly, which is why we would need sensible people to run the "Committee".

There's a major fight every 2 weeks or so. Once a month it gets super serial.

Not really. Maybe in one or two isolated incidents, but for the most part nothing is done. Especially not officially.

peer mediation works, just not over the internet. Nor do I think it is really needed for this site.

Actually things are done. I have attempted to stop arguments that get out of hand through PM's.

why can't we just have a STFU policy, if thing's turn into a reall argument the people in question will be told to continue via PM or recive a bann warning.

Taking it to PM makes it a million times worse. People are constrained by the fear of infraction and of public opinion, when they feel it is private they'll go much futher and it'll just escalate.

Other than it just post-pones the inevidable fight.

Well i don't care if it escalates the tennsion between two members, because it won't escalate the tension on the entire fourm. Let's say you and Ronald (this is just for explanation purposes) are having an argumet about whether or not Obama is a terrible president. It becomes an all out flame war, with name calling and the likes, now instead of Kali just telling you guys, to stop (witch never works) he just says continue this argument over PM or end it now or you will both get a ban warning for every argumet you post publicly.

This saves us from half the fourm joining in and more name calling and death threats or whatever else shannanigans. witch leads to a shitstorm and possible perm bans. Instead this problem will be confined between you and ronald so you can work it out like big boys or never talk to eachother again or whatever you decide.

Solving personal problems isn't and shouldn't be anyone's job here. Forcing people to like each other is out of the question. Forcing them to behave in a civil manner on the forums isn't, and this is what the moderation is for.

Three words. We don't need this

That's four words.

6.

You can't simply claim that you do things without anything to prove that it is being done.

Where were you when Stalin and I had our argument? Where were you when Ler and Kal fought each other and had giant conspiracies thrown back and forth.

You weren't, because the amount done is isolated and limited and takes a very long time to respond.

I wont even respond until you begin to write in complete sentences or in fragments that actually add something.

It seems ridiculous to wait until the argument is at its worse to begin acting.

I am a witness of what Pedro is saying. I have received many PM's about stuff on the forums. So hes not talking out of his ass like you are.

now that we can all count. why exactly will this do anything remotely useful?