I think some people need to take a deep breath, remember it´s just videogames we´re talking about here, machines to entertain us in our spare time.No need to defend them to death.

'Tribal behaviour' over such silly things >_>

 Well there is the alternative of mixing a positive feedback system in with the negative. Essentially you find some way to reward people for reporting bad posts consistently and use them to fight the negative reporters for you. It is a very hard situation to get around I admit. More so because the moderation here has always been so soft, and the few times it isn't there is a stream of people throwing temper tantrums over it. This would hurt the alternative system I suggested as well though as it would likely lead to an escalating hissy fit thread war between the two sides of the arguement, and then everyone loses.

 The only way I can see the system working is if it was eased into. Start by saying the policy exists, and then just do a verbal warning for any offense. After a few weeks you start punishing the repeat offenders and throw out hard numbers and possible examples of the bad reports they have to try and stem the early tide of tears. This would require a "non-trivial" amount of extra time from the moderators though, so it might not be logistically possible.

 Pick your poison is clearly the option you guys have infront of you right now. I know the one I would go with, but it is neither my decision nor in-line with previous administrative calls. I can try to brain storm on it if this is in anyway an actuall issue for the mod team, but I suspect it is just a matter of explaining how things run to those on the outside right now.

If that isn't brownosing I don't know what is.

This thread is a joke. Here is a tissue for you babies.

 More accurately it is picking apart your troll post with remarkable ease. If this is the best you can do to bait people just give up now. It is just sad to see what you type currently.

My sentiments as well.  If something offends you, ignore it. 

If something or someone is preventing you from having a productive discussion in a thread, report it.

If someone is going to get offended by every little thing and comment they see, the internet itself (let alone the forums) is definitely not a place for them to be visiting.

Flame wars always happen there is no stopping them you just have to accept it and get out of the way if you don't want to end up attacked thats all you can do because if mods were trying to only stop flaming wars they woulndt be able to do anything else.

The mods here do an excellent job of correcting obvious issues. This site is VERY tame. If you have an issue with something that is happening, make friends with one of the Mods and contact them personally. They have always handled things quite respectably from what I've seen. Heck the mods often slap people on the wrists and people fall back in line. They are very good at keeping the peace. This site is all about fanboy flame bait. The fact that we don't see very much flaming happening is a very good sign.

Forums would be boring without arguments.

I agree.

@shamless** god damn your sig. is fing annoying.

good lord...