# New flag type: insisting

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-flag-type-insisting/18575>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [8월 7, 2014, 8:23오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-flag-type-insisting/18575 "2014-08-07T08:23:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [8월 7, 2014, 8:32오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-flag-type-insisting/18575/4 "2014-08-07T08:32:06Z")

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I know exactly what you mean and it is definitely harmful to discussion.

I don’t know if it needs a whole flag type, but here’s what I recommend:

- flag it for mod attention with a note
- the mod (ideally) comes in and posts a reply asking the two people to cool it

However that doesn’t help you if no mods are around. I might even suggest posting as yourself (non mod, just another user) and asking the two people to cool it.

Maybe related story.

One night in Boulder, Colorado as I was driving home late from my job – this was maybe around 1992 or 1993 – I pulled up at a traffic light in front of two other cars. Not many cars were around, it was dusk, maybe 7pm or so at a relatively deserted intersection on the outskirts of town.

Anyway, these two guys were yelling at each other for some reason. Then they both got out of their cars, I swear to God, and were about to have an actual throwdown fisticuffs fight in the street. At this point I’m pissed because I’m sitting _behind_ them at this traffic light and I can’t go anywhere with these two jackasses out of their cars.

So I lean out of my car window and yell as loud as I can, _GET BACK IN YOUR CARS!_

The two guys look at each other sheepishly, get back in their cars, and drive away.

True story. I’ve always remembered that.

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