filtherton

I think what's being missed, is that sarcasm is not conducive to the constructive exchange of ideas. Seretogis post served no purpose in the overall framework of this thread other than to mock SF. That is called trolling. My post served no purpose other than to point out that it is usually seretogis who leads the charge against trolling(usually only when lefties do it), and that being the case, it is ironic for him to then troll against the person he always accuses of trolling.

Even if i had missed the sarcasm, it would not have been ironic.

Back to the topic. I commend the mods for doing their duty and putting up with a manchild such as myself. I do, however, think that some threads are locked prematurely, for instance, the murder is murder thread.

I think that, while there is a certain amount of trolling, threads get out of hand when both sides fail to react in a mature, measured manner. Flaming is the result of people refusing to calm down before they post. Flamebating is only effective when people take the bait. I think more people need to take responisiblity for their actions and not rush to react so passionately and foolishly.
Speaking of flamebaitng, SF gets a lot of shit for flamebaiting. I'm not going to name names, but i'm aware of plenty of righties who start threads with exactly the same tone as him, only from the other side of the aisle, who don't get a second glance from all of the self-professed troll hawks. I've also noticed on a few occasions where certain folk on the right have started name-calling, that the thread will only get locked or warned after i have returned the favor. Maybe that's just an innocent result of timing.