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Aotearoa39261 Posts
Hi everyone. The moderation staff have noticed a sharp increase in the frequency of twitch "emotes" being used on TeamLiquid. This basically covers things like Kappa, Kreygasm, FrankerZ etc. (which produce emotes within twitch chat) as well as Dendiface, DogFace and so on (which are twitch memes that don't produce emotes). While we have tolerated these for a while, we've decided that it's time to curb this trend and as such the usage of twitch "emotes" on TL is now a bannable offense. This isn't really a change in policy, as the Ten Commandments state:
Memes, even TL ones, are annoying. Don't 1a2a3a your way to posting over 9000 memes -- we will ban you. There are plenty of places to go if you want to see posters of people failing at things or a humorous caption appended to a photograph of a cat. TeamLiquid is not one of those places. But as we haven't been moderating it thus far we feel like a heads up is called for.
We will add notes to LR threads for the next few weeks to alert posters that this is not acceptable and ban people who are posting twitch "emotes" in those threads. When we see people doing this outside of LR threads we will be sending the user a PM alerting them to the fact that this is now actionable; and in a few weeks we will be warning/banning for their use. The Ten Commandments will be updated to reflect this.
If you have any questions about this please ask in this thread.
TL.net staff.
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I really just want to say "kappa" and act like an annoying troll. But thank you TL for doing this. It gets really annoying. Now if only the b.net forums would be moderated more..
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Germany25658 Posts
Excellent 
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Finally! Thank you guys, I was getting reeeal tired of that shit.
<3
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I was wondering what the fuck 'kappa' was and why everyone is saying it....
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Germany25658 Posts
On August 01 2013 10:57 WaveofShadow wrote:
I was wondering what the fuck 'kappa' was and why everyone is saying it....
It's the twitch version of a troll face basically.
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your Country52797 Posts
On August 01 2013 11:00 KadaverBB wrote:Show nested quote +On August 01 2013 10:57 WaveofShadow wrote:
I was wondering what the fuck 'kappa' was and why everyone is saying it....
It's the twitch version of a troll face basically.
I knew that but I've never heard of the other ones :o
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Thank god  , the kappa was getting out of control.
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On August 01 2013 10:57 WaveofShadow wrote:
I was wondering what the fuck 'kappa' was and why everyone is saying it....
It's something that Twitch chatters use as punctuation, kind of like exclamation points only even less meaningful
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Canada906 Posts
I hate that stupid Twitch culture so much.
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1001 YEARS KESPAJAIL22272 Posts
I have no idea what these are because I, like any sane person, block twitchchat, but if they are as annoying as they sound, good riddance.
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I've never once seen one of these used on the forums. Guess they are an SC forum thing...
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On August 01 2013 11:14 Artax wrote:
I've never once seen one of these used on the forums. Guess they are an SC forum thing...
I havn.t seen them(*noticed them) much either, but from the sound of it, looks like a good move to ban em.
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I've always understood Kappa as the much needed remark for sarcasm on the internet (since the look implies it). But it's overused so much nowadays that I'm fully supporting your move.
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United States33581 Posts
you wouldn't have done this if ShethFace was a thing, biased fucking sellouts
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United States33581 Posts
it took me so long to figure out what Kappa was, I stopped using twitch chat in like 2011 T_T
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On August 01 2013 11:30 Waxangel wrote:
you wouldn't have done this if ShethFace was a thing, biased fucking sellouts
I'd buy a TL shirt with that on it LOL.
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Germany25658 Posts
On August 01 2013 11:30 Waxangel wrote:
you wouldn't have done this if ShethFace was a thing, biased fucking sellouts
You realise you are supposed to be on our side in this? 
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United States33581 Posts
On August 01 2013 11:34 KadaverBB wrote:Show nested quote +On August 01 2013 11:30 Waxangel wrote:
you wouldn't have done this if ShethFace was a thing, biased fucking sellouts You realise you are supposed to be on our side in this?
why are you so german and humorless
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