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In some rules discussions, one or more completely intractable parties will keep a thread going for pages and pages repeating essentially the same post ad nauseam.

This doesn't strictly defy the laws of Dakka or YMDC, so it can't be solved by the "alert a Mod" button, but it's also completely pointless. There should be a way for users to flag the dead end threads so people will stop wasting their time on them.

Why not just flag the thread as a "dead end thread, discussion can not progress".

 DarknessEternal wrote:
This doesn't strictly defy the laws of Dakka or YMDC, so it can't be solved by the "alert a Mod" button, ....

Sure it can. The mod alert button isn't solely for rule breaking, but for anything that you think might warrant moderator attention.

If a discussion is just going around in circles, and we don't think that there is anything new likely to be added to it, we'll often lock it down, particularly if things are starting to wander off-topic or get heated.


That being said, it's a fairly safe bet that anything that goes over 3 or 4 pages is not likely to end in a single, solid resolution, so if you prefer to avoid those types of discussions, just don't read past that point

Yes, I can just not read them, and I don't. But it'd be nice if people were encouraged to not be such intractable douchebags who think having the last post means they won the argument.