OH MY GOD- Everyone in this thread has a cat Avatar. It's EVERYWHERE!!
<--- Why does everyone have this?? lol. Am I going crazy... perhaps. I don't know.
OT: The Escapist is quite a nice society where if you get in trouble, you get warned. You have a long health bar before you even reach being suspended. They just want you to behave and play nice is all... if you can behave, you'll be good to post again :}
Remus: I love the gif. I'd love it even more if it was a repeating gif of the WoW kid tantrum. Ya know, this one -
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wait, wtf... does that kid try to shove a TV remote up his ass at 1:10?
TizzytheTormentor: Eh, doesn't bother me, if the person kept breaking the code of conduct, they pretty much deserve it. It's not like it takes away their identity, it's just a forum avatar.
Pretty much this and I think the vast majority of the community would say as much.
I quite like it, I think they should expand and have other permabanned gifs on the go. To be honest you get fair warnings and the code of conduct is on the front page of the forums.
Read it. Remember it applies to user groups and live chat too (some good Escapists fell to that!). Don't be a douche and don't low content. In as long as I've been here (probably over a year now? idk)I've had one warning and it was for low content, now I have a clean record again. To be honest, it's pretty hard to get yourself banned and you probably deserved it.
I've seen people get suspended and banned over some really tame things. It all comes down to the mod reviewing it when it gets reported and if they feel that it's warranted for some reason. Most of the time I see "they have a history" as the reason for the ban when they get banned for a low content post.
Quite frankly when a person is banned, they lose all their rights. I say they just aren't lucky that the mods aren't cruel enough to replace a person's profile with a big giant phallus.
Also for a minute i thought that one person had just gone on a giant rant with himself from all the avatar pics being no cat until i read the names above the avatars.
oooh it changed automatically that makes it easier. i am now grumpy just like the rest although my original avatar was pretty grumpy maytbe moreso than the cat.
Jodan: oooh it changed automatically that makes it easier. i am now grumpy just like the rest although my original avatar was pretty grumpy maytbe moreso than the cat.
The grumpy cat pic is only for this thread. You still have to change your avatar for the other posts
Persoanlly, I think the permaban avatar is something I'd do. That is, something I'd do for a petty attempt for a laugh. Though I admit, I do get a bit of smug satisfaction when I see people who were acting like complete brats get nailed with it.
On the topic of losing our avatars to the new grumpy new cat overlords, well....
torno: I feel pretty dumb for asking this, what is it from? The GIF that they use, I honestly don't know what it is, is it from a movie or something?
It's a clip from an old TV series called 21 Jump Street.
In fact, it's actually a young Johnny Depp doing the slapping.
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Wow, that is some of the worst dialog I've heard in years... I'd blame it on "it was the 80s", and they were trying to sound hip... but... my brain is trying to claw it's way out of my skull now... >.<
Spud of Doom: Pretty disappointed to see the Escapist staff resort to mocking banned users like that. Surely a ban is enough.
But if they've done enough to warrant a ban, what does it matter?
Follow the rules, and you won't be banned. Can't follow the rules? Expect to have this permabanned avatar (eventually, upon being banned). Can't follow the rules and don't want this avatar? Don't join the site in the first place.
OH MY GOD- Everyone in this thread has a cat Avatar. It's EVERYWHERE!!
Am I going crazy... perhaps. I don't know.
OT: The Escapist is quite a nice society where if you get in trouble, you get warned. You have a long health bar before you even reach being suspended. They just want you to behave and play nice is all... if you can behave, you'll be good to post again :}