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The problem is often where there are multiple culprits. This punishment would have to be handed out quite widely which would no doubt cause it's own complaints. There are also some threads which are almost inherently prone to descending into arguments

Generally we do try and preserve a topic and that's why we'll post warnings in threads first and delete posts before closing a thread. That's only really a last resort when a thread seems unsalvageable