The threat by the admins was only to stop us from linking to the offsite clone. The mandatory emojis is "LE WACKY MODS" pretending to be funny. Anyways, there's still a lot we can do with the bans put in place. For example, I usually just screencap the entire plebbit thread, remove the names, and post the entire thing. It only takes 5 minutes, and it makes the admins angry, so it's all worth it. Instead of this sub being dead, I would say that we're in a reawakening, where the drama comes from us following the rules to the letter instead of the spirit.