• Would you like to see smartness back?
    42 replies, posted
Remember back in the good ol' days where we had smartness and people actually [i]cared[/i] how they spelled things? It actually helped me a lot with grammar and spelling. Vote in the poll, yo.
Yes, but we don't need a thread about this every month.
Yes, but it will need to redone and be better.
voted, not gay
Yes I would, everyone does.
fuck, I voted yes. Well either way it is true.
Seriously garry better be working on updates for making facepunch funner, this website dosent have to be 100% classy, (not like it is) but still, we should have fun extras like smartness.
I remember when we had the smartness system. People were instabanned for totally legitimate words/phrases, people lost smartness to words that actually show up in the english language (or proper nouns) and all it did was add to the idea that Facepunch was a facist dumping ground of elitists and fucktards. I don't know where you guys get this "GOOD OLD DAYS" idea from, it really wasn't that great. Granted, it had less school threads back then I guess... honestly, one of the most effective things ever done here were the "BAN ME" threads (when Hezzy or someone else made a thread and said everyone who posted in it got banned). That worked like a charm. It was as if overnight, FP was stripped of much of the retardation that had been spreading [I]despite the smartness system[/I]. Also no poll, but if there was, I would vote "Febuary 2010 doesn't get to talk about the "good ol' days"
FP is ruined since 08 as far as I am concerned.
Facepunhc learned me to spell!
[QUOTE=Henry Townshend;22813141]FP is ruined since 08 as far as I am concerned.[/QUOTE] Well, all you have to do is look at the gold member's forum. Despite many of them coming from before 08, plenty of fucktards even there. You guys should keep in mind, things like the Furry subforum and the Fast Threads area keeps a lot of shit from spreading out into other sections. You may think FP is worse, but having the "other" members of FP be forced into their own section makes the more general sections make fucking sense.
I would like smartness back, it helps members to be able to read threads by making grammar and spelling more important. Not as much "i wunt to the market and the guy wuz lik wuz up??!1"
Smartness had problems along with its benefits. People spammed it trying to lose all at once. Some words were counted wrong when they were right. Elitism.
[QUOTE=Chase827;22813207]I would like smartness back, it helps members to be able to read threads by making grammar and spelling more important. Not as much "i wunt to the market and the guy wuz lik wuz up??!1"[/QUOTE] Honestly, how often do you see that here on FP? I usually see decent grammar, the occasional guy who obviously doesn't speak english as a first language, and then the rare individual who is actually just fucking lazy. The last type of person doesn't usually last too long on FP anyway... not something I'd worry about really.
[QUOTE=Garb;22813108]Seriously garry better be working on updates for making facepunch funner, this website dosent have to be 100% classy, (not like it is) but still, we should have fun extras like smartness.[/QUOTE] [I]Fun?[/I]
Social experiment
Also alternative ways to spell was bad. (Ex. Color, Colour.
Wow, didn't know so many people were gay.
its funny because he named it 'are you gay' and most of you voted yes.
[QUOTE=Henry Townshend;22813446]Wow, didn't know so many people were gay.[/QUOTE] That's because most of those people want smartness back.
Clicked yes before i saw the "Are you gay?". I guess i'm gay now.
[QUOTE=FlakAttack;22813133]I remember when we had the smartness system. People were instabanned for totally legitimate words/phrases, people lost smartness to words that actually show up in the english language (or proper nouns) and all it did was add to the idea that Facepunch was a facist dumping ground of elitists and fucktards. I don't know where you guys get this "GOOD OLD DAYS" idea from, it really wasn't that great. Granted, it had less school threads back then I guess... honestly, one of the most effective things ever done here were the "BAN ME" threads (when Hezzy or someone else made a thread and said everyone who posted in it got banned). That worked like a charm. It was as if overnight, FP was stripped of much of the retardation that had been spreading [I]despite the smartness system[/I]. Also no poll, but if there was, I would vote "Febuary 2010 doesn't get to talk about the "good ol' days"[/QUOTE] I sniggered.
i voted no because i like typing like this sometimes
41 gay people apparently.
and yeah lets get another idiot cull it's getting stuffy around here [editline]10:36PM[/editline] [QUOTE=toastedspyro;22813735]41 gay people apparently.[/QUOTE] both sides have 41 votes please specify [editline]10:37PM[/editline] nevermind
Yes smartness is sort of cool but we have a thread on this every few weeks
Yes that way we don't have people talking like "Hey u r stupid lol" Didn't vote in the poll though because the OP is a douche.
No I'm not gay, but I would like to see smartness come back.
I don't really see much difference since then.
Smartness was just a pile of shit. I say we keep it this way, so we can feed the rating whores with our cumloads of boxes and agrees.
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