New Facepalm Policy

[DavidWoner]

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.

 

[4Chan]

Oh, so you were the one who banned that kingpin guy for his facepalm post.

I like seeing the banhammer in action.
This is a good policy.

 

[dunpeal2064]

its sad that we must ban people for emoticons, but I agree their has been way too many. These seems like reasonable terms. Hopefully it will help.

 

[Muesli]

LOL THIS POST FA-

Wait a second...

I approve of this

 

[James Ludlow]

....Anything beyond that is permanent.

:fp

No, honestly, a good idea. I too am sick of fighting through facepalms to find something reasonable. Everyone knows chopped pork is much better than spam anyway.

 

[PHPJaguar]

Knew this was going to happen sometime... I agree, abuse of any emoticon gets annoying very quickly.

Oh, so you were the one who banned that kingpin guy for his facepalm post.

Found it:
http://www.speedsolving.com/forum/showpost.php?p=297735&postcount=12

 

[PatrickJameson]

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.

 

[DavidWoner]

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.

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.

 

[Edmund]

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.

 

[miniGOINGS]

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.

 

[dunpeal2064]

would it be a good idea to make this for all emoticons and not just the facepalm? just to prevent spammers from spamming around the law =)

 

[Kian]

New Rule- No use of facepalm unless you videotape yourself doing it for 9:47 for each occurrence. Amirite?

 

[CitricAcid]

Yay for this policy.

I am also sick of ridiculous facepalm walls.

Though, could you set a limit for a specific number of :fp's?

That could be helpful.

But yeah, I agree with above post ^^ we should also ban excessive anything.

 

[James Ludlow]

New Rule- No use of facepalm unless you videotape yourself doing it for 9:47 for each occurrence. Amirite?

+1

 

[Bryan]

Though, could you set a limit for a specific number of :fp's?

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 ..."

 

[CitricAcid]

Though, could you set a limit for a specific number of :fp's?

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 ..."

Using a few facepalm smileys is fine,

He didn't really clearly define a limit...

 

[dunpeal2064]

Though, could you set a limit for a specific number of :fp's?

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 ..."

Using a few facepalm smileys is fine,

He didn't really clearly define a limit...

I think it should be at the discretion of the mods. its pretty easy to tell if someone is just being rude and inconsiderate.

 

[CitricAcid]

Though, could you set a limit for a specific number of :fp's?

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 ..."

Using a few facepalm smileys is fine,

He didn't really clearly define a limit...

I think it should be at the discretion of the mods. its pretty easy to tell if someone is just being rude and inconsiderate.

Yeah, good point.
1-3 max or so?

 

[qqwref]

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.

 

[IamWEB]

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.