This ban by smilies thing is getting really I'm a edgy teen biggs and slurp.

[RomanClock]

It's not the symbols, its what they represent.
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Naw, see, you'd have to do it like this:
►_◄
☼.☼♪

[Marlin Clock]

Slurpee is a facist dictator who wishes to turn us all into his sex slaves.

DON'T TRY TO DENY IT SLURPEE, YOU KNOW IT TO BE TRUE.

[NintendrCkolc]

The punishment isnt severe enough.

Create a special forum with a Guro skin and fill it with guro and an obnoxious jpop AP. If a smilie is used, condemn the guilty to this forum for a month.

[Marlin Clock]

But obnoxious jpop AP's are their food source.

[NintendrCkolc]

not if its loud enough.. Distortion helps too.

[Slurpee]

okay look

the way I see it is we're a community, right?

effectively, for the time that you're on here, everybody here is, at the very least in a myspace capacity, your friend.

if your friend asks you to stop posting ;w; smilies because it's obnoxious, annoying, and it's quickly becoming embarrassing to be associated with you, why would your response be

uh oh looks like the grumpy boy needs a nap! ^w^b

oh teh noez people are getting mad because of three characters ;w;

;w; noooo Biggs quit being a PMSy bitch >:[[

unless you were trolling?

something you probably don't know: a while ago, just in case they were being posted reflexively, I didn't want to start banning people over it
so, for about a week, I had a filter on ;w; and =w=, so that they wouldn't show up if you tried posting them
now gee, why on earth would the response be to edit posts and put in spaces, ω's, and different characters on the side so that the smilies would show up anyway?

is the picture becoming clear? if you're repeatedly being banned for a really simple fucking thing that you're fully aware you're doing and you can stop doing at any time
like if I banned you for posting (as we have been wont to do for the last four years to no complaints)
if you KEEP posting it, knowing you're going to get banned, and obviously not caring, what about that makes you the victim?

so no
sorry
every childishly idiotic, bratty, mccarthyist thing I've done so far falls under the banner of not letting assholes fuck up the forum.

MAYBE IF PERHAPS YOU'D FUCKING PM'D ME REGARDING QUESTIONABLE MODERATION TACTICS INSTEAD OF CALLIN ME OUT YOU COULD HAVE FOUND THIS OUT WITHOUT IT BECOMING A PUBLIC SPECTACLE
HMMM MARLIN
IF YOU COULD DO THAT IN THE FUTURE THAT'D BE GREAT THANKS