Take this Forum....

[Cougar Allen]

That is a topic for Bladeforums Service & Support. Briefly, the moderators of several forums here disapprove of that smiley and try to keep people from using it on their forums. General Knife Discussion is not one of those forums.

 

[dantzk8]

Those "smileys" are like tv canned laughter: "laugh with us, it's a joke!". A well expressed opinion or a good joke doesn't need those cryptograms. Old school.

dantzk.

 

[Bastid]

Use of the jerkit smilie will only get you in trouble if you use it in a forum were it is banned, or if you use it as a way to insult another member. It was not the use of that smilie that got tc45cal banned. It was the attitude he displayed, and the complete disrespect he showed towards Bladeforums and its rules. If use of that smilie in an of its self was enough to get you banned, I don't think it would be there for people to use in the first place.

Keith hit the nail on the head. I banned him and it was not for the smilies, it was for disrespect for this community after we had given him chances to come around. Some folks say, who cares it is the "internet". Maybe so in some areas of the net, but this IS a community whether some like it or not.

To allow his behavior to continue would be detrimental to what is here and that more than anything is the main point when making those types of decisions. None of us take joy in banning folks.

 

[SIFU1A]

oh i understand why he was banned just wondered about the jerkit.

 

[zenheretic]

I paid and received a receipt for gold membership but the forums have seemed to decline to acknowledge the fact...lol.

I figured everyone was still in shock over that shower door incident you posted.

 

[riffraff]

Those "smileys" are like tv canned laughter: "laugh with us, it's a joke!". A well expressed opinion or a good joke doesn't need those cryptograms. Old school.

dantzk.

Indeed. But forum posts are hardly the literary equivalent of a novelette, either. And given the nuances of the English language (especially its written form), and the global nature of the Web, its no wonder smilies evolved.

 

[zenheretic]

Indeed. But forum posts are hardly the literary equivalent of a novelette, either. And given the nuances of the English language (especially its written form), and the global nature of the Web, its no wonder smilies evolved.

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[Snake Dr.]

I've only been on this Forum for I think 3 Day's, And have had all of my Question's & Post that I've made answered and treated like a Forum Member ! This Is the only Knife Forum Im on most of the Forum's Im on are with Hunting Dog's "Mountain Cur's Oh Ya ! " But I'm gonna Join this one "Great Forum Is All I can Say ! Take Care !

Snake Dr.
BackWood's Nebraska