I wrote:

If there's a long discussion between two people that is slightly off-topic, I would hope that someone steps in and asks them politely (and perhaps firmly, if necessary) to continue it by private e-mail.

etc.

Actually, even if the discussion gets up to a regular 20 posts a day (the Great Technocracy Discussion at its peak), it might not even be much of a problem considering the number of edits being made now each day, especially if we can implement some way of notifying people of certain changes they ''want'' to know about. Still, though, I'd hate to see something out of hand like that on wikipedia, even on a user's page....

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