How about a community truce?

[TonyD]

Originally Posted by Ze-Jamz

I propose a sub forum for certain topics where you can battle it out till your hearts content with a warning in the heading so you know what to expect when visiting..

And instead of warning and closing threads just ban the culprits if it spills over to other threads.. pretty simple..

Tiring how EVERY thread turns out the same, the devs always wait til it's erupted before acting imo, warning signs were probably 3 pages prior..

If you ignore the rules and post in the civil section then your get a warning and thread closed straight away, if the 'defenders' take a cheap shot before its noticed then they get banned/warning

Easy as pie

This. But then the application of any penalty should be applied fairly to each side, irrespective of viewpoint. It seems to me, perhaps incorrectly, that one side of the coin is always treated less harshly than the other.