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I think this is sufficiently straightforward and comprehensible to be included in the Comment Policy - probably as a line saying, "Don't be offensive", with a sentence summary and a link back here.
And yes, I'm aware that we don't seem to have a Comment Policy. Given the past few days, I think it would be good to make one.
I'd emphatically disagree. This dispute has lead to some rather valuable and insightful posts, imo. It did not seem to get particularly heated, and people discussed it, for the most part, quite civilly. If future problems arise, a simple comment with a few links to these posts that have sprung up in the last few days should quickly correct the offender. An overt policy will, first of all, probably be read by two people, one of whom wrote it, and second of all may stifle useful discussion should a similar but not similar enough problem recur.
The depth of discussion about this seems to be proportional to the complexity and intrigue of the topic matter, not the actual offense caused by the comment that started this all.
Well, it did get about as heated as things get around here.
It's not like someone was trying to say that the airplane moves, or that you shouldn't switch envelopes, or something.
The point of having an explicit Comment Policy is that we are presently (or, at least, were very recently) driving away half our possible audience with the way many of us were talking. At least one person commented explicitly to that effect on "Sayeth The Girl". By having a Comment Policy that we regulars can agree upon and that we can point the new readers to, we can make fairly sure that there's a widespread knowledge of the kind of norms we want here, in a way which won't encourage flamewars every six months.
To be fair, the female audience isn't here mostly for other reasons.
Also, the pick-up talk seems to be a fairly recent thing which appeared along with the self-help (akrasia) and rationality = winning talk.
The rationality = winning talk has been around for rather longer than the rest of it - indeed, longer than this site.