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New Facepalm Policy

DavidWoner

DavidWoner

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I am sick of seeing giant walls of facepalm emotes accompanied by a facepalm picture of some sort. This is just spamming the forum and not contributing anything. Using a few facepalm smileys is fine, I am just sick of seeing posts that are nothing but "LMAO UR FAIL :fp:fp:fp:f p:fp:fp:fp:fp:fp:fp:fp:fp:fp :fp:fp:fp:fp:fp:fp:fp: fp:fp:fp:fp:fp:fp:fp:" etc.

First Offense will get you a one day ban and a warning
Second Offense is 5 days.
Third Offense is one month.
Anything beyond that is permanent.
 
Oh, so you were the one who banned that kingpin guy for his facepalm post.

I like seeing the banhammer in action. :p
This is a good policy.
 
Permanent bans, in my opinion, should never be given out(or at least extremely rarely, with the exception of spammers, etc(spam not being :fp's)). There's always time for people to change, even though I doubt anyone will get as far as the permanent ban step for this.
 
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PatrickJameson said:
Permanent bans, in my opinion, should never be given out(or at least extremely rarely, with the exception of spammers, etc(spam not being :fp's)). There's always time for people to change, even though I doubt anyone will get as far as the permanent ban step for this.
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I think if anyone is banned for a month and still can't figure out not to post giant walls of facepalms, they are clearly just trolling and should be permd.
 
Glad with this new policy. I really dislike the emoticon as it is and almost never use it (and I'm not sure if I ever have).

edit: oh and its super annoying not just seeing a streak but seeing random :f p, just annoying pointless text.
 
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I have never used the facepalm because I think it does more harm than good. I think that a policy to ban extremely unneccesary facepalmers is a good idea.
 
CitricAcid said:
Though, could you set a limit for a specific number of :fp's?
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If I read it correctly, the limit is 1.

And if you're going to facepalm someone, at least explain why their logic is wrong.

There's a huge difference between a facepalm followed by "lol, u r n idot" and "No. This won't work because once you do ..."
 
Bryan said:
CitricAcid said:
Though, could you set a limit for a specific number of :fp's?
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If I read it correctly, the limit is 1.

And if you're going to facepalm someone, at least explain why their logic is wrong.

There's a huge difference between a facepalm followed by "lol, u r n idot" and "No. This won't work because once you do ..."
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Using a few facepalm smileys is fine,
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He didn't really clearly define a limit...
 
CitricAcid said:
Bryan said:
CitricAcid said:
Though, could you set a limit for a specific number of :fp's?
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If I read it correctly, the limit is 1.

And if you're going to facepalm someone, at least explain why their logic is wrong.

There's a huge difference between a facepalm followed by "lol, u r n idot" and "No. This won't work because once you do ..."
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Using a few facepalm smileys is fine,
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He didn't really clearly define a limit...
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I think it should be at the discretion of the mods. its pretty easy to tell if someone is just being rude and inconsiderate.
 
dunpeal2064 said:
CitricAcid said:
Bryan said:
CitricAcid said:
Though, could you set a limit for a specific number of :fp's?
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If I read it correctly, the limit is 1.

And if you're going to facepalm someone, at least explain why their logic is wrong.

There's a huge difference between a facepalm followed by "lol, u r n idot" and "No. This won't work because once you do ..."
Click to expand...

Using a few facepalm smileys is fine,
Click to expand...

He didn't really clearly define a limit...
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I think it should be at the discretion of the mods. its pretty easy to tell if someone is just being rude and inconsiderate.
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Yeah, good point.
1-3 max or so?
 
There's no hard limit on something like this (and that's a good thing). It's a matter of just being reasonable; it's entirely possible that a post with "only" three facepalms might be considered spam, whereas a post with four facepalms might be considered reasonable (i.e. a multi-quote response in a debate topic where everyone is failing hard).

I'm also against permabanning, just because it's *forever*. Ridiculously long bans accomplish the same deal but give people a chance to change (assuming you're just banning them for overuse of facepalm, and not for outright spam or failtrolling). I suggest a 5^x style ban system: 1st offense = 1 day, 2nd offense = 5 days, 3rd offense = 25 days, etc.
 
I think it's a bigger failure that there's actually a debate/discussion going on of ~how many facepalms one can use in a post.

Just use it when you feel the need and 'Know Your Limits', but don't take the phrase too seriously. If you think you're overdoing it, you're likely overdoing it.
 
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