Aggressive bucketing, and segregation of topics should be enforced. The Abortion debate containment thread has been pretty damn successful in that regard. The clickbait/ragebait that Catparty and friend posts is also handled well.
slapfights and asshurt is going to happen. The goal should be to minimize collateral. Political sperging in topics that aren't inherently political must be punished, if just for the sanity of the rest of the site. Political and news threads should have a standard of being topic focused. If the thread starts de-railing badly, the offending post should be moved to the appropriate thread, or "Pastadomed". Slapfights get "Pastadomed."
Offenders of posting segregation and slap-fighting/shit-stiring the get:
- warning
- temp-thread-ban
- perma-thread-ban
- temp/perma-ban from the Thunderdome and the site in general.
Warnings get reset after x-period of good behavior, and Thread-Perma-bans are could be appealed after xx-period of good behavior and moderator approval.
Doing just the above would massively improve the Thunderdome. It's been done before, and a sustained effort, by a staff that isn't massively overworked would do quite a bit.
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Jew Spergs need their own containment and debate thread. I can't say I don't have some sympathy, but many of these guys just don't know when to quit. Going into any random thread and seeing "teh joos did this, gas teh Kikes." a dozen times in half a dozen pages gets repetitive at the very least. Bundle most of it up and toss it in a thread called "ADL News and Discussion Thread" or something like that. Some of these fuckers need to learn how to have a discussion around anything other than the Jew.
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Once a slapfight is tossed into the "Pastadome", it should pretty well be ignored except for illegal content. Containment threads should be fairly light touch too, just so long as shit doesn't spill back out.
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That's my 2 cents anyway.