It's an interesting idea but I don't want it. What if someone spams threads (not posts, threads) or cporn? We will still need a moderator.
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The threads are fine as they are now. It is very easy to skip past a user or paragraph you don't care about; just scroll your mouse wheel. Thread moderation would be abused in this community. If you want to see people arguing more, go for it.
I can understand why you guys might not want to allow users to be banned from posting to a thread by the thread creator, but my idea is... what if you reply with a troll post, its hidden, then you reply with another, and another, and another, how many times must the topic creator hit hide before the troll stops destroying their thread? The solution is to make the troll leave.