Hell, in the two years I've been here, I've seen countless flame threads come and go, and only a handful have resulted in drama blowouts
Thank you, this is exactly what I was going to say to counter Wykked's point.
Most user flame threads don't go anywhere particularly bad. In fact, most just degenerate into LOLCats after a while. And of the ones that DO get ugly, more often than not, the only thing that happens is that someone who had it coming gets a warning or a ban.
And the guidelines I proposed are based off of observations of the threads that "work."
Now, you might THINK that getting rid of F&B will get rid of drama. However, there are hundreds of boards without any F&B section, which DO function on a no-flaming policy. Does it get rid of drama? Hell no. It arguably makes it worse, & you DEFINITELY end up with more moderator action. On most forums, I can get a warning for going, "Fuck, that's stupid." And after two or three warnings, I'd get banned. I don't think that's a good alternative.
Like any experimental section, there are frequent debates as to whether or not F&B should be eliminated. But I think Rookie said it best:
And I like that we have our own trash can to dump the off shooting stuff in. Of course, we as a group could probably do a better job doing that.