It's very testing of the sanity to have to wade through five or more pages of people whining about crap you don't care about back and forth at each other. I don't care to take part in debate, so I stopped visiting those forums some time ago. Even though it's part of my duties now to enforce the policies in there, it's so mind numbing to go through all of this crap I don't care about in order to make sure that everyone is playing nicely.

I think some of the other staff feels the same way. The only course of action to help this situation, I think, is to reinforce to the posters there that, if they feel there is flaming or spamming, they must report it.