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Peter Evans |
Aug 27 2006, 05:32 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 109 Joined: 24-August 06 Member No.: 13 |
Mankind (or if you prefer humankind) managed to communicate without smilies for centuries. Millennia, even. Now, perhaps a lot of people think they're cute, perhaps a lot more people think that they need to have them because the precise nuances of their comments might otherwise be misunderstood, and gawsh, people are so sensitive, y'know?
I found smilies interesting for a period of about five minutes perhaps five years ago. But now, I'm sick of them. Just about every bloody forum I go to has them. (Lean, mean old htmlhelp.com/bbs/ is a refreshing exception.) It's just byte-wasting crapola, really. No smilies, please. |
Peter Evans |
Sep 2 2006, 09:20 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 109 Joined: 24-August 06 Member No.: 13 |
Yes, smilies suck.
Consider this thread. I am here going to have to refer to lowercase letters of the alphabet as "ay" and "bee" (even though I actually wrote "a" and "b"). I wrote: QUOTE I wonder whether it might be necessary to distinguish between (ay) messages such as mine and (bee) flamebait, etc. Preview showed me QUOTE I wonder whether it might be necessary to distinguish between (ay) messages such as mine and ([some stupid smiley]) flamebait, etc. I noted that "emoticons" were enabled (funny, I thought I'd disabled the **beep** [thank you, nannyware] things in my profile). I disabled them, and re-previewed QUOTE I wonder whether it might be necessary to distinguish between (ay) messages such as mine and (bee) flamebait, etc. Now I read: QUOTE I wonder whether it might be necessary to distinguish between (a) messages such as mine and ((IMG:style_emoticons/default/cool.gif) flamebait, etc. Ugh. Can't smilies be completely disabled? I don't want autoconversion into smilies. I don't want smilies. I don't want autoconversion out of smilies to ugly text. All I want is intelligent text on web-related issues, not *beep* equivalents of winks and nudges and the mess they cause. |
Liam Quinn |
Sep 2 2006, 10:34 AM
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WDG Founder Group: Root Admin Posts: 52 Joined: 2-August 06 From: Canada Member No.: 1 |
Yes, smilies suck. Consider this thread. I am here going to have to refer to lowercase letters of the alphabet as "ay" and "bee" (even though I actually wrote "a" and "b"). I wrote: QUOTE I wonder whether it might be necessary to distinguish between (ay) messages such as mine and (bee) flamebait, etc. Preview showed me QUOTE I wonder whether it might be necessary to distinguish between (ay) messages such as mine and ([some stupid smiley]) flamebait, etc. I noted that "emoticons" were enabled (funny, I thought I'd disabled the **beep** [thank you, nannyware] things in my profile). I disabled them, and re-previewed QUOTE I wonder whether it might be necessary to distinguish between (ay) messages such as mine and (bee) flamebait, etc. Now I read: QUOTE I wonder whether it might be necessary to distinguish between (a) messages such as mine and ((IMG:style_emoticons/default/cool.gif) flamebait, etc. When composing a message, there is a Post Options section with an "Enable emoticons?" checkbox. If you uncheck that, then you should be able to type stuff like (b) with no worries. |
Christian J |
Sep 2 2006, 10:41 AM
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pandy |
Sep 2 2006, 04:22 PM
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🌟Computer says no🌟 Group: WDG Moderators Posts: 20,737 Joined: 9-August 06 Member No.: 6 |
When composing a message, there is a Post Options section with an "Enable emoticons?" checkbox. If you uncheck that, then you should be able to type stuff like (B) with no worries. True, but the setting is not saved so one must check it every time. And they still turn up when quoted. |
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