Who wants smilies?

[_Dr. Shades]

Hey Shades...what about those ones I suggested? I went for the smallest, least flashy ones I could find.

Those, too, are unnecessary.

[_Yoda]

Hey Shades...what about those ones I suggested? I went for the smallest, least flashy ones I could find.

Those, too, are unnecessary.

Dearest Dr. Shades,

May I humbly request the emoticon for sticking out the tongue? :P

I think that would complete the "basic set" of emoticons nicely.

[_moksha]

So was Shades a Puritan in a former life? This could account for the barest set of emoticons begrudgingly given perhaps. ;)

[_The Nehor]

Not finished complaining.

I'd like these: [SNIP!]

Each of those are entirely unnecessary.

*sigh* soooo disappointed...

As am I, Blixa. As am I.

We'll go with the mob rule for now, but if there is any abuse of the smilies, the smilies are gone.

I'm also considering dropping them down to just a single smilie--the basic one--since it is sufficient to convey the idea of sarcasm and/or tongue-in-cheekness, which is the only real reason for a smilie in the first place.

Shades, I think you're looking at this from the wrong angle. Demand for smilies is high. Supply is controlled entirely by you. Total monopoly. Why not charge people to add new smilies? Say $20 a pop. If you can enable them on an individual level the possibilities are endless.

[_JAK]

Simple:

• They make the board look juvenile.
• They make the board look unprofessional.
• They make the board look like a lazy third-grader's scrapbooking project.
• People use them as a crutch to avoid having to use the language effectively.

Are you saying these are bad things?

Nehor,

Try to achieve the ability for direct quotation rather than paraphrase.

I rather suspect that Shades said what he intended to say.

Your comment is an attempt (a poor attempt) to put words into someone else’s post. Why?

Shades said nothing of the kind as your poor, poor paraphrase attempts to make him say.

If you want to make a respected comment, at least quote people directly or refer to their words as they expressed themselves.

What you do is a distortion and disingenuous whether you have the capacity to recognize it or not.

JAK

[_Bond...James Bond]

Here are a few I like from various sites:

Neener-neener (a.k.a. The Juliann):

Blockhead (a.k.a. The Hammer):

Cowardly Lion (a.k.a....fill in the blank):

Oscar the Grouch (a.k.a. The Pahoran):

The Cookie Monster (a.k.a. Kerry Shirts):

The Pinocchio (a.k.a....fill in the blank) :

The Neo (a.k.a. Rollo Tomasi):

[_Bond...James Bond]

Off topic....but this is the greatest smilie in the history of smilies!