If a member posts a message that you feel needs disputing or criticising, you can do it in a PM, without getting involved in the kind of circular dispute which gets in the way of the enjoyment of other people posting on the thread in question.

I don't think Max is under any impression that what he is planning will solve all the awkwardnesses that arise in any kind of social environment. The hope is it will get rid of one unpleasantness which has got on his nerves and on the nerves of a lot of people.