Board Thread:Site Discussions/@comment-20015702-20140405191815/@comment-167456-20140406114028

People should not be arguing. At all. It is not and never has been productive. What they SHOULD be doing is calmly and civilly discussing things, so that they can establish mutual understanding and reach a satisfying agreement. That's not the same as arguing. If users can't do that, and they start (for example) insulting each other in a way that is not productive and disrupts the wiki, then admins SHOULD step in to stop the argument and encourage them to conduct themselves in future with civility. That's the job of the admins.

If you think that the only way to reach an agreement is by seeing an argument to its conclusion, then I feel very sad.