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Originally Posted by Barkingturtle
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You realize of course that RnF is not some malignant growth forcing posters to behave in a misanthropic way, right? The "cancer" is people. Honestly, if someone had breast cancer would you just cut off the whole boob?
Poor example.
Really though, I get what people are saying. The RnF section here is crap; no debate here. But again, that's not the whole board's fault. It's a handful of posters. So ban them. IP ban them and when they make sock accounts do it again. If it's more than a handful, then it's the community itself, and those asking for more civility and less random, meaningless vitriol are deluding themselves into thinking they themselves are not the gentle, cuddly minority.
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I agree with you, it is a handful of people and not R&F itself. However, the existence of R&F (in its present form) implies acceptance of, and even encourages, that behavior. Maybe we can call it nicotine
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So yeah, IF the problem posters could be really and truly banned from the forums (repeatedly and regularly as necessary), THEN, the existence of an R&F in and of itself wouldn't be a problem.
But I still like your idea of removing its posts from the "Recent Threads" section on the home page ASAP (as a temporary fix until the bans can start making a real impact).