Want to stop a lot of flame wars? Turn off the rep and force people to say things in public.
I notice at least 3 of the people who are pledging to stop flaming love to use rep for that very purpose.
I gave up on the flaming and just stopped posting daily. I took this pledge a while back. I made 4 threads in one day 3 serious news threads that got a total of 5 posts and one flame thread that lit up like a Christmas tree.
If people could learn to use the ignore function and actually stick to it things would run a lot smoother.
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