Emoticons

DavidTODavidTO Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 19,160 Major grins
edited January 21, 2006 in Dgrin Forum Support
Is it just me? I never use the emoticons on this site because I don't like them. Especially :wink That's not a friendly wink, but a lecherous, sneaky, devilish wink. Not what I mean when I wink.

Anyway, just a personal note. I don't like them.
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  • wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited August 31, 2004
    mwink.gif = naughty.gif ?
    Sid.
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  • pathfinderpathfinder Super Moderators Posts: 14,694 moderator
    edited August 31, 2004
    DavidTO wrote:
    Is it just me? I never use the emoticons on this site because I don't like them. Especially mwink.gif That's not a friendly wink, but a lecherous, sneaky, devilish wink. Not what I mean when I wink.

    Anyway, just a personal note. I don't like them.
    Geesad.gif That's too bad. ne_nau.gif I kind of like themclap.gif To each his own I guess.deal.gif

    :D:D:D
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  • patch29patch29 Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 2,928 Major grins
    edited August 31, 2004
    wxwax wrote:
    mwink.gif = naughty.gif ?

    nod.gif
  • BaldyBaldy Registered Users, Super Moderators Posts: 2,853 moderator
    edited September 1, 2004
    DavidTO wrote:
    Is it just me? I never use the emoticons on this site because I don't like them.
    You know, I've been watching the smilie use here and compared to the other message forum I run, www.advrider.com , the smilie use is way lower here.

    Over there threads constantly break out about adding new ones and they even design their own to add.

    Dunno what the difference is but if you see some on the net you like and want to add, we can do. We usually have someone second the motion so the site doesn't get too full of smileys only one person likes.
  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited September 1, 2004
    i have always used smilies
    even on text-based boards like dpreview - it's crucial to convey the meaning of something.

    and, here, with the graphical smilies, it makes it a bit o fun.

    gotta run, over here in london it's 5pm, and that means :slurp
    Baldy wrote:
    You know, I've been watching the smilie use here and compared to the other message forum I run, www.advrider.com , the smilie use is way lower here.

    Over there threads constantly break out about adding new ones and they even design their own to add.

    Dunno what the difference is but if you see some on the net you like and want to add, we can do. We usually have someone second the motion so the site doesn't get too full of smileys only one person likes.
  • DavidTODavidTO Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 19,160 Major grins
    edited September 1, 2004
    I have a basic aversion to animated smilies. They are cloying, cheesy and annoying. They also waste my time. I know I don't have to look, but it takes seconds from my life to watch Andy's emoticon drink a pint. OK, that's going too far, perhaps, but I still don't like them.

    I'll just stick with what I know. ;)

    Hope that makes you all happy :)

    Don't want to bring you down :(
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  • gubbsgubbs Registered Users Posts: 3,166 Major grins
    edited September 1, 2004
    andy wrote:
    even on text-based boards like dpreview - it's crucial to convey the meaning of something.

    and, here, with the graphical smilies, it makes it a bit o fun.

    gotta run, over here in london it's 5pm, and that means :slurp
    Hope its going to be bitter after the Corona grief I got rolleyes1.gif
  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited September 1, 2004
    hey that's cool, david!
    DavidTO wrote:
    I have a basic aversion to animated smilies. They are cloying, cheesy and annoying. They also waste my time. I know I don't have to look, but it takes seconds from my life to watch Andy's emoticon drink a pint. OK, that's going too far, perhaps, but I still don't like them.

    I'll just stick with what I know. ;)

    Hope that makes you all happy :)

    Don't want to bring you down :(

    i like it either way :):D
  • DavidTODavidTO Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 19,160 Major grins
    edited September 1, 2004
    andy wrote:
    i like it either way :):D

    good thing you didn't complete that sentence with one of those lecherous, sneaky, devilish winks. mwink.gif
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  • pathfinderpathfinder Super Moderators Posts: 14,694 moderator
    edited September 1, 2004
    DavidTO wrote:
    good thing you didn't complete that sentence with one of those lecherous, sneaky, devilish winks. mwink.gif
    :Drolleyes1.gif:Drolleyes1.gif:D
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  • wxwaxwxwax Registered Users Posts: 15,471 Major grins
    edited September 1, 2004
    DavidTO wrote:
    I have a basic aversion to animated smilies. They are cloying, cheesy and annoying. They also waste my time. I know I don't have to look, but it takes seconds from my life to watch Andy's emoticon drink a pint. OK, that's going too far, perhaps, but I still don't like them.

    I'll just stick with what I know. ;)

    Hope that makes you all happy :)

    Don't want to bring you down :(

    Did I mention I hate smilies using punctuation marks?
    Sid.
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  • onethumbonethumb Administrators Posts: 1,269 Major grins
    edited September 2, 2004
    wxwax wrote:
    Did I mention I hate smilies using punctuation marks?

    That's alright, I hate emoticons. :)

    Don
  • ruttrutt Registered Users Posts: 6,511 Major grins
    edited January 21, 2006
    DavidTO wrote:
    I have a basic aversion to animated smilies. They are cloying, cheesy and annoying. They also waste my time. I know I don't have to look, but it takes seconds from my life to watch Andy's emoticon drink a pint. OK, that's going too far, perhaps, but I still don't like them.

    I'll just stick with what I know. ;)

    Hope that makes you all happy :)

    Don't want to bring you down :(

    Somehow this policy seems to have changed. Assimilated?
    If not now, when?
  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited January 21, 2006
    rutt wrote:
    Somehow this policy seems to have changed. Assimilated?

    David - 0wned by Rutt naughty.gif
  • DavidTODavidTO Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 19,160 Major grins
    edited January 21, 2006
    rutt wrote:
    Somehow this policy seems to have changed. Assimilated?


    Yep. Guilty as charged. I still have an aversion to rolleyes1.gif and clap.gif , they're just too animated. You'll notice that I really only use the slightly animated, like maybe an :uhoh or a :crazy.
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  • DavidTODavidTO Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 19,160 Major grins
    edited January 21, 2006
    Oh, and BTW, Rutt. I have the right to change my mind. You sold your right to change your avatar ad for $5. Sold, gone, no longer yours.

    Just thought I'd mention that....
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  • ruttrutt Registered Users Posts: 6,511 Major grins
    edited January 21, 2006
    DavidTO wrote:
    Oh, and BTW, Rutt. I have the right to change my mind. You sold your right to change your avatar ad for $5. Sold, gone, no longer yours.

    Just thought I'd mention that....

    Now listen to me, you smooth-talking son-of-a-bitch! Let me lay it on the line for you and your boss, whoever he is. That avatar ad changes back at 6pm tonight! I don't care how many daigo guinea WOP greaseball gumbahs come out of the woodwork!
    If not now, when?
  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited January 21, 2006
    rutt wrote:
    Now listen to me, you smooth-talking son-of-a-bitch! Let me lay it on the line for you and your boss, whoever he is. That avatar ad changes back at 6pm tonight! I don't care how many daigo guinea WOP greaseball gumbahs come out of the woodwork!


    See you in court deal.gif
  • ruttrutt Registered Users Posts: 6,511 Major grins
    edited January 21, 2006
    Andy wrote:
    See you in court deal.gif

    Hint: the script says you make me an offer I can't refuse.
    If not now, when?
  • AndyAndy Registered Users Posts: 50,016 Major grins
    edited January 21, 2006
    rutt wrote:
    Hint: the script says you make me an offer I can't refuse.

    I saw the movies. All three of them!
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