What’s Your Approach to Moderating Controversial Topics?

[Aragon Burner]

Share strategies for keeping discussions civil and productive.

[Heatman]

Tempers always flare up when having a controversial discussion going on in any community. It's why you have to indicate in the beginning of such topic for everyone to keep it civil when giving their opinion. It will help to keep everyone in line when having to express their views but it's very important to have your mods keeping tabs on how things go on.

[Shortie]

Having to deal with any kind of moderating within a forum is always difficult and how you choose to deal with it depends on the outcome at the end of it.

When it comes to moderating controversial topics on a forum, you have to take extra care to ensure that members know the rules and to be sure you take control if things start to get out of hand. Obviously, everyone is going to have different opinions and they do need to be respected without things escalating further.