I enjoy a public arse-kicking match as much as the next person (the spat between sligco and Dipstikk was fantastic
) but it tends to spawn itself in other threads, I'd noticed. As in, one thread turns into a fight between two members, mods close it, so the argument is taken to another thread... and so on.
Soo... I'd have to side with the mods/"hippies".
Their job is hard enough as it is without having to decide which rule to apply to which thread, and which rule to ignore because it's all for the sake of "flaming the living hell out of the twats".