How about forum-specific bans?

[PhantomLlama]

This is a science board, to discuss scientific matters, and as such it should have slightly different modes of operation in order to ensure that the scientific method is respected.

There are certain elements on this board (I would say you know who you are, but the sad thing is you probably don't) who regularly ignore or dodge questions, resort to rhetoric and otherwise refuse to debate science on the science forum. This behaviour obstructs the proper discussion of scientific issues and leads to the board turning into a spectacle of reasonable people who actually think shouting at a wall of dogma and bigotry.

I propose that the moderators have the power to issue forum-specific bans so that people who repeatedly engage in the behaivour described above could be stopped from posting on this board. (and its christian-only equivalent) This would allow proper discussion to advance and those who are willing to listen to learn more. And it would remove a lot of the endlessly repeating threads that clutter up this board.

What do you think?

 

[webboffin]

You woke up the wrong side of the bed this morning or something?

 

[Pete Harcoff]

The problem is, if such a thing were to happen then there would be no end of people getting banned. After all, one can easily acuse either side of being "dogmatic" about the topics being discussed.

That said, I agree that some people are not very conductive to good discussion or debate, but then again, that's nothing new here.