Rule Change (New Staff Power)

[*Deidre*]

Actually, what ends up happening is people just fight with the person, and the person can be whatever they like there. That's just it...they can be a jerk in that subforum, just not permitted to be that way out in the open. Once they are let back into the open forum, they need to curb their behaviors, or they're gone. It's not reform, it's revenge for the offended parties. lol I don't really partake in all that, I'm not one to call people names and so on. I feel that if someone is chronically derailing threads with their crappy behavior, I tend to just ignore the person. Actually ignoring the person, not using the ignore feature. 

We had something like that.  It was humiliating for the "jerk" and only served to encourage them to act out, and for the rest of the membership to taunt them.  I can't speak for the rest of the staff, but that certainly isn't the sort of environment I want to foster here.

We got rid of it for very good reasons.  I highly doubt any of the current admins would support bringing it back, and I'm certain that a majority wouldn't.

Yea, I'm of the opinion, to just ban people who join for the intent to disrupt a forum, and those 'areas' tend to draw more negative attention. I have never partaken, but I've seen it work out either way...the person stops and is rehabilitated or the area just serves as an eye sore, which drags a forum down. I think if someone joins a forum with the main intent to disrupt it, or degrade it...by insulting 90% of the members, they should just be banned.

Another option is they need 'x' amount of posts in a particular section before they can create new threads on their own. That to me has always been a prudent idea with newbies to forums.