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Adding more Smilies to the list (is this possible?)
KING LITERATE
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I have a crapload of smilies in my photobucket account and was wondering if there was a way I could add them to the list so everyone could use them.
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You are not a member of the administrative staff. Don't answer questions aimed at them.
I have a profound distaste for images as a means of communication so there are no plans to add more smilies at this time.
I'd point out the irony of the admin of a forum built around a comic strip harbouring this opinion but I don't want to give ammunition to the pro-smilie argument.
Just don't let the artist's corner hear you saying this, I advise, with my tongue metaphorically in cheek.
All it took was two lolcats, and a demotivational poster. One swipe of a ban-hammer later and the example was set. At least in my forum I am trying to create an environment inductive to communication and community. Not posting silly pictures or icons when you have nothing intelligent to say. One can see what happened when :awesome: was introduced in the SA forums.
I'm pretty sure it's the same way here.
What, pray tell, happened when :awesome: was introduced to SA? Because unless I'm quite mistaken, and I know I'm not because I've been reading the SA fora for going on years now, they're pretty fucking stringent about making sure you don't just post like awesomeface and call it a day in posts. That's something GAF will tolerate, not SA. Sure, it might've lead to an influx of posts early on with Awesomeface and nothing else, but SA is pretty fucking on top of it when it comes to not tolerating the bullshit, and always has been. In addition, the helpfulness of their smilies offsets the annoyance of overuse....I've never seen a central thought conveyed as well as :awesome:, "It is a mystery", or "LET'S RUN THIS SHIT INTO THE FUCKING GROUND!"
Anyways my view on it is is smilies help express an emotion that's difficult/impossible to convey in words and/or help clarify a point. That's why I hope we can get the :rollseyes: smiley back because it's so goddamn difficult to convey sarcasm accurately without it (Poe's Law and all that) and it'd just clarify so many accidental arguments that result of misinterpreted sarcasm on these boards.
Context.
chair to Creation and then suplex the Void.
Because sometimes you gotta say something and there just isn't a right way to say it by text. Emoticons at times can fix this.
Unless you're the kind of dude who doesn't give a damn who they offend/hurt.
That said, I can see how a flurry of them could get tiresome fast.
e: Also it's worth mentioning that in order to provide the context I'm talking about you basically only need about 3-4 different faces.
Which essentially...invalidates...everything I've said up to this point.
God.
Sarcasm and most types of irony can lose its effectiveness, that's impossible to convey in words without it being Poe's Law breaking without ruining the effect
This shit happens all the time in D and D. One little emoticon would solve the entire problem easily
God, there you go again Rent! <_<
chair to Creation and then suplex the Void.
There are instances where a single emoticon is adequate. Lots of <3s get tossed around in SE++ and it seems to work perfectly.
chair to Creation and then suplex the Void.
images can strike a person in a way that words cannot and humor is all about the delivery
anyone who is Very Concerned about images being used in posts should perhaps consider relaxing
...and yet mrgreen survives...
You seem to be taking it considerably more seriously than anyone else in the thread.
Intensely annoying to have an otherwise normal post be raided by unintentional emotes. This comes up a lot when posting code snippets, etc.
we also talk about other random shit and clown upon each other
try the disable smilies checkbox. it is moist and delicious.
keep your fork, there's pie! :winky:
i don't think so
i would like the winky to be dragged out back and shot, however
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It is a walrus.
And then you get people saying it's a cow, or some anime thing.
And then Tube goes on a rage-induced spree of changing the names of the people talking about it for 100 pages to ":3 is balls."
I do miss :rolleyes:, but really, you can indicate sarcasm perfectly well with many of the other smilies which are still there
in the G&T TF2 thread (and a wee bit outside there), smug.gif (
not really makin' a point here, just sayin'.
kpop appreciation station i also like to tweet some
I'd also like to shoot a winky out the back. :winky:
Hotlinking is a really fucking awful idea.
kpop appreciation station i also like to tweet some
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If you want to post code snippets, there's a
It won't automatically parse emoticons, even though I didn't check disable.
thanks, now i will never see it any other way.
i guess the wink is good enough for sarcasm.
Or as the 4chan meme "its a lion! get in the car!" etc.
Or a cat.