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[QUOTE=yawmwen;35739591]So what about the ones that aren't awful? You guys aren't being discriminatory. You are banning puns and jokes whether they are good or not. In fact the first post that was banned for being a pun wasn't even a pun in the first place. If you guys want to be fun police, then whatever. But in all honesty you can't keep up this charade of "we are getting rid of awful posts" when you are just making sure people can't make jokes anymore.[/QUOTE] Why not just, you know, bring back the smartness system?

[QUOTE=Smug Bastard;35739640]Why not just, you know, bring back the smartness system?[/QUOTE] because it's a lazy broken catch-all that doesn't really solve anything

[QUOTE=Smug Bastard;35739640]Why not just, you know, bring back the smartness system?[/QUOTE] Me can still have talks as dis and smartness no drop I rating

[QUOTE=ILY;35739655]Me can still have talks as dis and smartness no drop I rating[/QUOTE] I think was ILY is trying to say is that you can spell everything correctly and still be a complete fucking idiot

Yeah, but it's a good thing to have in addition to all the other moderation. I'm not saying it should replace searching and banning retards, I'm just saying it might make the mods' jobs a little easier. It was good at getting rid of bad spelling.

[QUOTE=Renegade Master;35739719]Yeah, but it's a good thing to have in addition to all the other moderation. I'm not saying it should replace searching and banning retards, I'm just saying it might make the mods' jobs a little easier. It was good at getting rid of bad spelling.[/QUOTE] a lot of terrible posters wouldn't be effected by the smartness system. a lot of good posters would. it's not worth the trouble

[QUOTE=Sanius;35739653]because it's a lazy broken catch-all that doesn't really solve anything[/QUOTE] According to people back when smartness was effective it helped them spell properly, I wouldn't mind it getting another shot.

[QUOTE=fruxodaily;35739739]According to people back when smartness was effective it helped them spell properly, I wouldn't mind it getting another shot.[/QUOTE] The little red squiggle under a misspelled word helps too

[QUOTE=lavacano;35739613]It also provides feedback assuming the ratings can be interpreted without explanation in that post (and a lot of the time it can be)[/QUOTE] I don't know man I tend to rate gaybow for everything agree or dumb doesn't fit

[QUOTE=fruxodaily;35739739]According to people back when smartness was effective it helped them spell properly, I wouldn't mind it getting another shot.[/QUOTE] who cares? your ability to capitalise words and use auto-correct says nothing about the actual content of your posts [editline]1[/editline] the smartness system was just another thing that nerds used in order to feel unwarranted superiority

[QUOTE=ILY;35739744]The little red squiggle under a misspelled word helps too[/QUOTE] Internet Explorer doesn't include spellchecker but chrome and firefox do. I know the new IE10 metro contains a spellchecker which is good. Some people seem to ignore it sometimes. I don't see people misspelling a lot nowadays anyway

[QUOTE=fruxodaily;35739777] I don't see people misspelling a lot nowadays anyway[/QUOTE] Then what's the point of [QUOTE=fruxodaily;35739739] it getting another shot.[/QUOTE]

smartness would just lead to retards purposefully spelling worse than they usually do to see who can lose the most smartness in a post.

and net then some nice long bans for being cleaver assholes

uh my title went from 'Der Führer' to 'Der FÃ¼hrer' help

[QUOTE=Quark:;35739809]uh my title went from 'Der FÃ¼hrer' to 'Der FÃƒÂ¼hrer' help[/QUOTE] change your encoding to utf-8

Tbh you should be thankful because it's infinitely better / funnier than the original concept

[QUOTE=Quark:;35739809]uh my title went from 'Der Führer' to 'Der FÃ¼hrer' help[/QUOTE] I hate to burst your bubble but nazi jokes aren't really funny

[QUOTE=ILY;35739790]Then what's the point of[/QUOTE] New members in particular who are young and and mostly post in FT/Gmod general spell shitty or their grammar is poor. It would be good for them to learn how to spell properly so they don't get bombarded with hate.

Yeah I set his title as Der FÃ¼hrer and it became all weird

imo smartness should only apply to gold members i mean we're the shining examples of spelling and punctuation on this internet forum, like the english teacher thread

[QUOTE=yawmwen;35739591]So what about the ones that aren't awful? You guys aren't being discriminatory. You are banning puns and jokes whether they are good or not. In fact the first post that was banned for being a pun wasn't even a pun in the first place. If you guys want to be fun police, then whatever. But in all honesty you can't keep up this charade of "we are getting rid of awful posts" when you are just making sure people can't make jokes anymore.[/QUOTE] SH joke posts are off topic, there's hardly ever a reply to them other than RATED FUNNY or an even worse response-joke. If you really feel like a joke is relevant somehow you can put it along side an actual post at your own risk. You'll still get taken out if you're being tasteless and/or an idiot

[QUOTE=Dragon;35739890]SH joke posts are off topic, there's hardly ever a reply to them other than RATED FUNNY or an even worse response-joke. If you really feel like a joke is relevant somehow you can put it along side an actual post at your own risk. You'll still get taken out if you're being tasteless and/or an idiot[/QUOTE] speaking of RATED FUNNY, ban those guys please

[QUOTE=Quark:;35739809]uh my title went from 'Der Führer' to 'Der FÃ¼hrer' help[/QUOTE] Sorry I don't really want to fix your hitler title!!

[QUOTE=ButtsexV3;35739917]speaking of RATED FUNNY, ban those guys please[/QUOTE] Yea, you guys are banning puns but this shit is so much worse and prevalent in every single forum.

if youre really getting worked up over your ability to make bad puns in a certain section of an online message board you need to take a step back

[QUOTE=Jo The Shmo;35739942]if youre really getting worked up over your ability to make bad puns in a certain section of an online message board you need to take a step back[/QUOTE] He who gets worked up over other people getting "worked up" is probably the one who should take a step back.

[QUOTE=ILY;35738170]Who told you that you're a real gold the only real ones are the people who got it before the "gold after x years/posts" thing.[/QUOTE] you mean the people who bought it before the "gold after x years/posts" thing?

PLEASE UNBAN PUNS IN SENSATIONAL HEADLINES. From [url=http://www.facepunch.com/threads/1180235]this thread[/url]: [QUOTE=postal;35739337]It's not impossible to have a discussion without news pun shit posts. It happens all the time, why you think you can convince me otherwise I have no idea. Now take this to the ASK US thread or PM's or something that's not here, thanksssss.[/QUOTE] Like many other stories in Sensationalist Headlines, this story was just begging for puns. It's not a serious thread at all, so why should we force everyone to have a serious discussion on it? Seems like the only people who actually think that puns are shit posts are the mods themselves.

[QUOTE=Headhumpy;35740271] Seems like the only people who actually think that puns are shit posts are the mods themselves.[/QUOTE] I'm going to disagree with you there, puns for a while were okay you know if they were clever, but people seemed to exploit this and created shitty, horrible and generic puns that we've all heard of before. The whole MJ puns are not even the [B][I][U]slightest[/U][/I][/B] bit clever, they're 2 second thoughts that you post just to scab a couple of funnies. So no, it's fucking pointless.