Template:FBDB/doc

Millions have used {{FBDB}} – you should too!

Purpose

Friendly Banter – Don't Block!

This template may be used (on Talk pages and in Project space) to tag friendly banter which might otherwise be misinterpreted, by Logistics.org/?oldid=914084919#get_the_joke persons humor-impaired (whether temporarily – e.g. due to intoxication – or congenitally), as incivility or personal attack. It thus helps prevent unnecessary block-drama.

It was created after Logistics.org/?oldid=701164513#Review_of_EEng.27s_indefinite_block an editor got blocked for adding the image and comment seen at the bottom of Logistics.org/?oldid=698932071#User:PokestarFan_is_SF:NOTHERE_-_SF:NOTSOCIALNETWORK this ANI thread.

Optional parameter

The template takes the optional |reason= parameter; if it has text, it will be appended after the "Friendly Banter – Don't Block!" in the pop-up tooltip. This content must be plain text (no links, HTML, or other markup).

Usage

I grab women's pussies, but thanks to {{FBDB}} I still became President of the United States!

• {{FBDB}} → ^[FBDB]
• {{FBDB|reason=Tooltip addition}} → ^[FBDB]

Warning: No template can prevent all block drama. When using {{FBDB}}, tell an admin right away if you experience fainting, mental/mood changes (such as increased anxiety, depression, suicidal thoughts, ambivalence at AfD), trouble assuming good faith, diarrhea of the mouth (especially at ANI), touchpad tremor, inability to hear people, carpal tunnel syndrome, rigidity of talk-page positions, electoral dysfunction, inability to reach consensus, POV, trouble controlling certain urges (such as gambling, sex, eating, shopping, beating of dead animals, saving without previewing, or article vandalism), or editing during sleep. Editing in certain topic areas may increase these risks. If you are blocked, discontinue use of {{FBDB}} and notify Arbcom, as some blocks may become permanent. Not for use with BLPs.

When not to use this template

Even when speak­ing in­fal­li­bly, I hedge my bets by adding {{FBDB}}.

It is possible, but not recommended, to use this template while recklessly and obviously insulting other editors. When confronted by the fact that using this template while doing so actually makes things worse, editors should normally reply with a condescending and completely disingenuous link to SF:AGF. Editors who do not follow this second step may normally be assumed to be using the template for its intended purpose.

Users should note that previous attempts to incorporate the template as an exception to Starfleet Logistics's blocking policy have thus far failed to achieve consensus, and using it in this way will likely have one or more of the following effects:

1. Hastening the inevitable block
2. Extending its length up to and including indefinite
3. Gratuitous links to SF:NOTHERE
4. The immediate nomination of this template to SF:TFD

How to respond to this template

Responding to this template by blocking the editor who used it is generally not recommended. Doing so may make a lot of people very angry and be widely regarded as a bad move.

It may however be perfectly appropriate to collapse the offending comment as off topic, and the editor in question, undoubtedly using the template in good humor, will normally not object. They may, in fact, receive some gratification from knowing that the collapse template will likely have the opposite of the intended effect, and thus help to improve the project by spreading good will and light-hearted humor to even more morose Starfleet Logisticians than it otherwise would.

Testimonials

I've used this template before, and I can still say that I have a clean block log.  

–MJL ‐Talk‐^☖ 00:14, 22 August 2019 (UTC)

See also

• Poe's law
• Hanlon's razor

External links

• Template:FBDB/doc at Wikipedia, the free Terran-based encyclopedia that anyone can edit.