Emoticons

DavidTO · August 30, 2004

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.

wxwax · August 31, 2004

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pathfinder · August 31, 2004

DavidTO wrote:

Is it just me? I never use the emoticons on this site because I don't like them. Especially 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.

Gee

That's too bad.

I kind of like them

To each his own I guess.

patch29 · August 31, 2004

wxwax wrote:

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Baldy · 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.

Andy · 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.

DavidTO · 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

gubbs · 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

Andy · 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

DavidTO · September 1, 2004

andy wrote:

i like it either way

good thing you didn't complete that sentence with one of those lecherous, sneaky, devilish winks.

pathfinder · September 1, 2004

DavidTO wrote:

good thing you didn't complete that sentence with one of those lecherous, sneaky, devilish winks.

wxwax · 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?

onethumb · September 2, 2004

wxwax wrote:

Did I mention I hate smilies using punctuation marks?

That's alright, I hate emoticons.

Don

rutt · 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?

Andy · January 21, 2006

rutt wrote:

Somehow this policy seems to have changed. Assimilated?

David - 0wned by Rutt

DavidTO · January 21, 2006

rutt wrote:

Somehow this policy seems to have changed. Assimilated?

Yep. Guilty as charged. I still have an aversion to

and

, they're just too animated. You'll notice that I really only use the slightly animated, like maybe an :uhoh or a :crazy.

DavidTO · 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....

rutt · 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!

Andy · 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

rutt · January 21, 2006

Andy wrote:

See you in court

Hint: the script says you make me an offer I can't refuse.

Andy · 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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