We can't stop all spam without unreasonable and impractical restrictions, [@NuttsnBolts]. What we can do is stop the vast majority of it.

a 5 to 15-minute timeout of you go above a certain number of smileys and/or notifications in a single post and/or timeframe (your 10 seconds seems nice) ought to be reasonable.

We know bigger IRC channels tend to punish people for pinging everyone. We don't want to be as harsh here as some of them can be, but a reasonable level of control over such ought to be acceptable.

It might be us feeling crotchety and not-young, but our impression is that the vast majority of those who do spam smileys and/or notify everyone regularly are among the younger tiers of guild members. Anyone else get a similar impression?