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Topics to be avoided on your forums; Thank goodness for moderation...
Topic Started: Jan 28 2006, 12:59 PM (627 Views)
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Are there any topics on forums that turned into a flaming war, or took a wrong direction? Can be IF or others.
I'm mainly on forums about books and writers, and these have caused some major arguments and members leaving.

Moonlandings

Harry Potter

Hellboy

Matthew Riley

Terry Schiavo

US presidential elections

Any other topics best avoided on your forum?
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Well, as my board is a political debate board, we rather embrace a few of those. I find UFO and Moonlanding things, as well as 9/11 consericies to be annoying, and most oft easily disproven, but we don't try to avoid any topics on our forum.


Anything can get quite heated, but for the most part peole on the forum I run are mature enough to know whats what.
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See all you gotta do is make sure they follow your rules. If you don't have a set guideline then people are going to flame and everything else.


If you enforce your rules then there will be less flaming. So any topic wont get heated. If they do become heated edit the posts then tell them they get a warning. Then after so many warnings their gone. Simple as that.
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I normally encourage heated or controversial discussions at my forum. It's a nice way to learn from others and view others perspective. When something gets out of hand, we normally either remove the post or just close the topic for a few hours to clean and edit things out.
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I find any topics that have to do with either creation vs evolution or presidental elections to be destructive.
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RebelliousKrimpy-ZNS
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I was surprised to see Matthew Reilly's name in that list...

I'm a member of a Matthew Reilly Fan Forum, and the only flames in there are coming from his newest release book. =P

Seriously though, Matthew Reilly and his work is a topic for debating, but flames aren't really necessary.

Definately Evolution vs Creation and any other Religious/Science/Philosophical talks can turn nasty.
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I think nearly every topic has the ability to become flame if the right muppet finds it and decides he wants to prove how stupid ignorant and childish he is. I've seen everything turn into a flame war, from religious and philosophy to introductions and 'you favourite ...' topics. :blink:
Where there's an opinion to be formed there will follow the possibility of flaming. Flaming will occur for various reasons, and it's near impossible to prevent but easy to control if you get a hold of it early enough and lay down the law.

I believe I saw a discussion about pizzas turn pretty nasty. :ermm: I think someone got banned as a result. Not this forum, one I used to go to.

On the other hand, sometimes what can be viewed as a flame isn't really so bad. There is a fine line between an outright unnecessary flame and a well needed kick up the backside.
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Since my forum is about sports really the only topics are about whos number 1 and which team is better then what, what player is better then another player, and what team will win what games.
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January 29, 2006 02:22 PM
I think nearly every topic has the ability to become flame if the right muppet finds it and decides he wants to prove how stupid ignorant and childish he is. I've seen everything turn into a flame war, from religious and philosophy to introductions and 'you favourite ...' topics. :blink:
Where there's an opinion to be formed there will follow the possibility of flaming. Flaming will occur for various reasons, and it's near impossible to prevent but easy to control if you get a hold of it early enough and lay down the law.

I believe I saw a discussion about pizzas turn pretty nasty. :ermm: I think someone got banned as a result. Not this forum, one I used to go to.

On the other hand, sometimes what can be viewed as a flame isn't really so bad. There is a fine line between an outright unnecessary flame and a well needed kick up the backside.

Hahaha. Cheese pizza sucks! :eh:
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