Clay Shirky at Many-To-Many is impressed with the rules at a Captain Obvious
Stay the HELL out of “TEH SMARTAY FOREM!!!11” unless you can keep up with the topic. The posters in that forum are very protective of it, and rightfully so. Don't post in that forum until you read ALL THE POSTS in that topic first, and are sure you can speak English and use proper grammar and punctuation.
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Off topic/generally retarded posts will be moved to Brain Fecal where the regulars will proceed to rip it to shreds and make you cry. Frequent posters of Brain Fecal worthy threads will find themselves at home in Tardfarm.
Mr. Shirky is young. Way back in dial-up BBS days there was a guy who did this. Instead of banning troublemakers he lowered their security until they only qualified to participate in a conference called "Village Idiot." Interestingly, those this is seen as an expression of dictatorial powers nowadays, back then it was seen as a remarkably gentle way of handling idiots.