Doug B
Footballguy
Were this my board, using the laughing emoji in response to a debate point (as opposed to a joke) would be a 30-day suspension.Not childish at all. I've talked about that for a while. It was meant to be laughing "with" but it seems most of the time I see I see it, it's trolling laughing "at" someone.
One thing that takes away from the experience of this board is that standards of discourse are not upheld. Ad hominem statements are typically allowed here if they meet some standard of "mildness", whereas use of ad hominem in political debate debate should instead result in a set number of warnings followed by a suspension for repeated infraction.