This is actually pretty much the idea of the kids room. A place where you can go a little overboard, and you expect immature discussions like what happened on that topic.
Mods could vote to move a topic to the kids room, and the topic would stay there for 1 to 3 days. People could still post in it and when the furor of personal attacks, arguments, immaturity etc, dies down it can be moved back.
People who continue to post immature stuff consistently in topics, causing a vote to whether they should be put in the kids room to occur, could have their user group changed to kids, which would only allow them to post in the kids room. The kid roll would be in effect for some static amount of time, perhaps 14 days. Only being allowed to post to topics that have been marked for the kids room will make the people with the kid role realize that it's just not that fun to post that way after a while. And maybe they'll stop.
I'm probably being idealistic, and I haven't ever tried this myself, so I don't know if it will work. But I do know that the moderators are too lenient with a lot of this behavior right now, and I think it's because they don't have many options which causes them to lean more toward the merciful side. They can either warn, which doesn't really stop the bad behavior because a lot of the recipients believe they are in the right and don't deserve the warning, or they can ban them for 30 days, which makes someone cry foul and tons of hangers on agree and then the admins look like evil overlords who like to ban people. The kids room is a moderate suggestion and I believe it deserves some serious consideration. I've been trying to pitch the idea in a humorous way but now I'm really being serious.
Mods You gotta admit, what is currently happening, though it's a lot better than if things were totally unmoderated, is still pretty messy looking to outsiders looking in. If you have a messy room, the least you can do is push all the messy stuff into one pile, so that the majority of it looks clean, and that lets you sort out the actual junk that needs to be thrown out from the knicknacks you want to keep for memories, or the niche items you have that have uncommon uses but are still in good condition. That's the same way with the kids room. Consolidate all the junk, make the rest of the forum relatively nicer looking.
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