I have to agree with Unne, and personally, if I were admin I would do some serious Nazi/gestapo type of handling. Flaming people should only be done in jest (eg: my "Spuuky, you jerk " responses). Snide comments, ad hominem premises, and prejudicial language should not be allowed, no matter what.

The staff has the freedom to do whatever it feels like. I'm not going to demand that they go about warning people left and right, editing posts and banning those who are still unrully. I know they have lives too, and it's a big job trying to moderate a forum with probably fifty to a hundred active posters.

What I guess I'm getting at is that the 'deal with problems yourself' type of approach to squabbles is the moderators trying to say that if they fixed every tiny problem here, they would go crazy. I know I would...