….I want to see a tag called ‘Majestic As Duck’ now… GDI.

@cheezedoodle  

 
10/10 needs more ducks

@Nightweaver20xx  
Opie
 

I was told it was a South Park reference.

Look, they’re all imitating OP.
 
(Not this OP, mind you, OP in a general sense.)

@thps48  
wait I thought it originated from a typo. someone accidentally wrote duck instead of dick

@Jarkes  
I haven’t looked it up, but it’s possible it originated from Brony culture and possibly Derpibooru and /mlp/, as you’ve said. :3

@thps48
 
To be honest, I’ve ONLY ever seen it used around here specifically. I’ve never seen it anywhere else.

@thps48  
Ah I see

@nerfherder  
Duck replaced dick for use in general discussions where swearing or suggestive language isn’t allowed. You’re a massive dick became you’re a massive duck in certain contexts. I first noticed the slang being used sometime around 2011-2. :)

@Blossomforth  
Where/when/why did the term “duck” start getting used in place of “troll”

@Blossomforth  
Thanks! “Quack”

@Blossomforth  
I see.  
And oh, right. :P
 
Twilight is the best duck in the picture. <3

@Mike  
There’s one person on this site with 26 bans who’s not been permabanned, but they’re not too active right now either. There’s another with 18 who’s not permabanned, has no duck badge, and is very active on the site.
 
Bans and duck badges are kinda based on context, severity, etc. We don’t have a fixed list of “If <person> does <a>, give them <specific punishment>, no exceptions”. There’s guidelines and steps and such, but every situation is different, some things aren’t as bad as others, etc. So we always look at everything case-by-case.
 
@Twilight_Shimmer  
Overall, there’s 51 badges in the system. However, that’s now how many you can have. Some badges (the patreon, gem, and coin donation badges) are in “sets” and you can only have one from each set at a time. A few more were only available for a specific time/event. Some of them are unique and given to only one person. Some of them are “rare” badges that have no publicly known criteria and are not easy to obtain. Etc. Right now, the most badges anyone has is fifteen. And here’s a list of the criteria for a number of our badges.
 
 
@Mike  
@Twilight_Shimmer  
@HighRollerHydra  
This image’s comments are kinda way off topic though, so lets get back to talking about cute duck ponies and quacking and stuff! If you have any other questions, just ask in the forums or send me a PM.

@HighRollerHydra  
How many Possible badges are there?

@Blossomforth  
You said six bans is a lot, but I swore I saw someone who had 14 until they were permabanned, and that was in the span of a year!

@Blossomforth  
Maybe having no badges is better for me.

@Background Pony #6F41  
To be fair, he got a duck badge because of his posts here. So he didn’t have that badge when this all happened… That tends to happen when you rack up a number of repeat bans

@Lucky Shot  
That isn’t true in the slightest.

@Blossomforth  
Best reason for a comment edit ever. Also, I was wondering how this got drama in the comments, though as soon as I saw who you were responding to everything fell into place.

@Blossomforth  
Ironic how there’s a duck in the comments on this picture.

That duck is so triggered.

@ChuymaruZ  
More like speciesist.

celestia’s a swan!

@CMC Scootaloo  
It was a lower resolution, lower quality image with some pretty heavy JPG compression. Editing a few cropped screenshots onto an image in MS Paint does not really make it worthy of keeping separately from a higher resolution, higher quality version of what’s otherwise the exact same image.
 
At any rate, if you’re unhappy with or disagree with a merge, you should either contact a mod and discuss it via PM, the forums, or irc. Insulting the site’s entire community by calling them whiny and saying they lack common sense is not an appropriate response.
 
Enjoy your month long vacation from the site. Six bans is way too many. The next one is permanent.