I would like to propose a system where the majority an 80% majority of members can vote off another member for their behavior that is offensive to ALL members regardless of political lean.
Though they keep within the rules, thereby hamstringing the MODS, we as a community can still take action to remove them by an 80% vote and that vote must be at least 10 members strong.
In the next several months, political tensions will be high with the onset of the midterm elections. This is guaranteed to bring trolls of all kinds to our community. They stay within the rules, so the Mods can't do much...but WE CAN...with this new rule.
HOW IT WILL WORK:
New section added for members to go to for voting.
Section is up for seven (7) days. Can be initiated in that section by any member.
After seven (7) days the member in question will be perma-banned if;
80% of those voting agree to ban them,
AND their number is ten (10) or greater.
We already have a POLL mechanism in-place for this.
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This is OUR on-line community and we should not have to endure offensive behavior from anyone who pops in here from cyberspace and makes this place a mess.
Merely flushing their threads down in the The Hole does not stop them. They will just make another one.
If they offend members of leans left, right, and center, then they need to be gone....and gone by our own hand....freeing up our unpaid moderators this messy job.