You have decided to accept mentally ill members. You don’t ban them (when you discover that they are MI). Mentally ill people will post crazy stuff. They can’t be moderated because they are crazy.
Removing a couple of posts, once in a while, will not change their behavior. Notice that the removal of Ecmandu’s posts produced even more posts from him.
Singling him out while ignoring other crazy posts from other MI members is ridiculous. It’s caused by a personal issue between him and Uccisore.
While this is happening, all sorts of inappropriate posts and spam are allowed by posters who are not MI. These posters would benefit from moderation. There is good reason to believe that they would respond to moderation. The discussions would benefit. The forum would benefit.
There are two major issues … what to do about MI members and what to do about ‘normal’ members who post inappropriately.
Neither issue is being handled well at this point.
My personal suggestions:
MI members - I think that I would ban MI members. If you choose not to do that, then I suggest ignoring their harmless posts and moving the offensive stuff to Rant.
Spammers - Give warnings immediately, move the spam to Rant. Ban them if they don’t clean up their act.
‘Normal’ posters who write inappropriate stuff - They have to be warned. A moderation has to come into the thread and point out how a discussion forum works … Point out that political opponents are not “supporters of terrorism”, people who disagree with them in a discussion are not “insane” or “certifiable”.