this is a terrible idea and you should be ashamed of yourself for not including maces, iron maidens, and cat o' nine tails
Actually, I'm not sure it's going to fly--or it will turn into a dagger fest and never go away until the poster goes away.
I keep wondering why the old three and three isn't in force here. In all the time I have been here I have seen ONE poster banned, and then we all made fun of him when he kept popping in an posting three hundred and twelve single picture link posts in thirty minutes.
So give out three warnings for belligerence, allow all topics (maybe crazy stuff like politics and how hot Bills niece is in the OT forum) and give the mods warning powers and maybe one or two people the Ban Hammer to swing.
Once a person has three warnings he gets a temp ban. Three more warnings another temp ban. Final three warnings is a permaban. Anybody who can't keep civil after THAT much rope deserves to be hanged, imo.
I mean, the basic rules of civility aren't hard to get, and only rarely is an apology offered here. Maybe rescind the warning if an apology and a retraction are made for minor bickering, and for outright insults a days suspension?
I post in a number of forums where this is the norm, and while it may take a person a while to get the ban, in general those unable to play nice generally go away within a month after enough pounding by the hall monitors.