To clarify... when you say "oppose certain methods" here, do you mean something like you don't care for these methods, perhaps even find them odious, from the perspective as a poster/lurker -vs- as a mod, tasked with creating the rules for a interwebs forum, you're going to try to set those rules to preclude such methods.

As a mod I've opposed methods of doing politics that were nonPC (that's been changed a bit now) and some OTT attacking methods.

As a poster my view that engaging is both good for discussion and good political method has, in practice, stood in opposition to who take the opposite view.

That's not exactly what I mean by 'methods' here. I'm considering (a) chatting, and (b) derailing, to be different 'methods' in this context. I guess that would make, say, PC Chatting (a1), and Non-PC Chatting (a2). I'm asking about 'method' (b) here.

To go back to my football analogy, I gotta figure that any mod crafting rules for a sports themed interwebs forum would (a) answer "hell no" if asked about -doing- sports ITF, and would (b) answer "hell yes" to sanctioning a poster who knowingly and wilfully derails chats by changing the subject to the-one-true-and-only-official-definition-of-the-word 'football'.

Which is the same exact kinda problem we have with the r-word here in Los Dos Politards.

Does this better explain my Qs ??