And that is just fine. I was skipping hundreds of posts at a time anyway. So if I was reading it 3 times a day, and still ended up skipping hundreds of posts, it was out of control.

Is this a perfect solution? Nope, but it is an attempt at a solution, and that is progress.

I wish things were that cut and dry. But they are never that cut and dry when it comes to humans. You can easily eliminate the worst offenders, but then you get into people that are much closer to the line. And those get into a gray area. If you simply say "exterminate" like a Dalek, everyone within 25% of the line on either side gets ejected. So you end up with 1/4 of the people even left to participate. So really you have already gutted any discussion that may have happened. If people could control themselves and weren't dinks "the problems in that thread would have been ELIMINATED DAYS AGO". And instead we end up with "pre-moderation" (a term coined by DaveH himself).