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Some kind of mechanism that harnesses the common intelligence of the group seems to be what is required. Decentralized systems will always be able to react faster than centrally controlled systems. The trick lies in eliminating the inappropriate responses. Either a consensus requirment, such as yours, or a trusted poster system, such as proposed by others, might be just the thing.

But whatever it is has to be fast-acting. If these things can't be eliminated within the first 60 seconds or so, the damage is already done.

Perhaps the ultimate is a combination of the consensus and trusted user systems.

Perhaps registered users could have a "Trust Factor" value attached to the registration that is developed based on how long one has been a member, how many posts they have made, and perhaps the community assigned "Quality Vote" I discussed in the previous post.

Ones with a higher "Trust Factor" would have greater weight in the "Quality Vote" process.

This allows for the site owner to assign a super-high trust factor to certain chosen users. Perhaps those users can nearly ZOT-lite an offensive poster with one vote.