A freind of mine is a member and mod of another broad where they have something called "The Battleground" thread. In that post and that post only they can talk about hot button iusses such as reglion and poltics. The rules on it are anything goes in that post but what happens in that thread stays there.
I know to some it might sound like opening a door for fights and in fact fights do sometimes happen in the thread on my freind's site but they find it's a better way to let everyone blow off stream and talk openly then simplely banning everyone from talking about hot button iusses at all.
So might we be able to set up a place where we can talk a little smack and talk a bit 'risky'? After all much like the shoutbox if you din't want to go into the "Battleground' Post you would'nt have to. One could lurk and wacth the drama but not post. Another rule of the post was unless a person posted there they could not be attacked or dragged into anything.
Thanks for considering/reading this post (even if i have a feeling my idea is going to be rejected )