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>>hn_thr+(OP)
My guess is that the answer will be "not on HN" but I'm curious where such questions could be discussed/debated as well. I get banning flame-bait questions so that the forum/website doesn't become know as the Hackers' Fight Club. Maybe a clone/similar kind of site -- perhaps called HackersFightClub.com? -- could be created where topics that are NOT flame-bait get flagged and removed.

>>mikece+p1
I guess the corollary to my question is whether there is a way to have discussion of these sensitive topics without it turning into Hacker's Fight Club. For example, perhaps instead of a single "flag" option, having something like a "quarantine" option (a horrible and incorrect name I know) that had more restrictions on comments, perhaps:

1. A higher bar for comments based on age of account and karma.

2. A limit on the number of comments from any individual account, e.g. each account would only get one or two comments. The idea being "get out your point as clearly as possible in one message", because you won't have the option for endless back-and-forth (and potentially escalating) debate.

>>hn_thr+M3
> whether there is a way to have discussion of these sensitive topics without it turning into Hacker's Fight Club

Watching any post that touches on Covid over the past year and a half -- which should at least have aspects that are not inflammatory, unlike your examples -- I've become convinced that the answer is simply "no". It may be better here than other places, but it still isn't good. And it's not what I come here for. I don't engage with them anymore and I would prefer a world where they weren't submitted here at all.