Pretty much everything is politics and religion by interpretation and degree.
How about no rules on topics and just arbitrarily smack down threads that get out of hand. The "no rules" policy should apply to mods as well, so simply lock threads that get out of hand and ignore all the indignant, butthurt posters that try and turn it into a mod-nazi debate.
I'm sure the mods are reasonably fair and try not to be biased but we don't need a court of law to decipher individual situations in a forum like this. Life's not fair sometimes and if you can't play here than they can cry about the unfairness somewhere else.
I mean, really, just stick to the legal stuff like overtly racist, serious and unrelenting personal attacks, pron, that kind of thing. Let the rest work itself out and don't be shy about unceremoniously locking bad threads until people lose their anarchistic tendencies and everything settles out.
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