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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 2121278" data-attributes="member: 158">It already happens, just not in that form.When a thread topic is not inherently flame-inducing, but a given thread gets heated, we close the thread, the respondents move on to other things, and a few weeks later if the interest is still there, someone else totally unrelated usually starts said thread, and cooler heads usually post. We might have to pop in to remind newcomers to remain friendly, but it progresses from there.The idea of closing a thread for a few days and then monitoring it to re-open has two problems in my mind:1) I don't care to make a list of things to search for and monitor after a few days just to reopen them, post to them so as to make them rise back into public consciousness, and thereby bring them to the attention of all who were flaming in them before.2) Take a look back at the date and time stamps of these most recent threads, and see how long they were going on. Most threads of a long-running nature last for days as it is, with no sign of tempers cooling in the event of a nasty argument. If a thread will go a week of posting as-is with slowly increasing vitriol until the boiling point of closing is reached, it will take more than a couple of days (more like, say, a few weeks) for people who are passionate about it to get back to level.The idea of banning particular users who were offensive from a thread is an interesting idea, and if Jelsoft could do it successfully in this day and age of spoofed IP's, duplicate names & e-mail addresses, and other sneaky tricks, I'd be all for it. But the next best alternative is if someone is a repeated problem for other posters, we just ban them entirely, and using our devious wiles, make sure they STAY banned. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />So while a nice idea, and we've discussed similar approaches in the past, it's not one that has ever struck us as being easily implemented.</blockquote>

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