No laughing smilie?

Neil79 said:
Riiiiight, no need to insult people.
So because i end a post with :D or :p, i'm suddenly under 14?
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I didn't quote you, so I wasn't intending to insult you personally,
it's just my general opinion that animated smilies are awful, they ruin forums by encouraging sloppy half assed replies and are loved by every 14 year old half wit that manages to get themselves online.

:D:p:confused::cool::)
 
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Imagine if all the emotes were this size. And animated.
 
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I'm not in favor of animated smilies. But I do see a case for perhaps one or two more smilies.

Smilies are surely designed to make up for the shortcomings of written text that derive from the absence of intonation and stress. OK, it's true that one can get around the problem by using different language but often far less concisely.

The :D (Big Grin) is far too ambiguous for example. Is it really just a Big Grin or a Laugh or simply Talking. If the last one seems weird then just hover your cursor over the Post Icons next time you're making a reply in the Advanced setting. That's what it calls it there. And why on earth do we need a Post Icon for indicating when a Post is a Post ?!?!?
 
That's the 'kin point really.

In everyday life a roll of the eyes could be meant totally sarcastically and very aggressively - or - at the other extreme could be meant jokingly in humour. The facial expressions that precede it and follow it reveal its actual intent. But in text alone there is simply too much ambiguity. That's why you would never find in a novel, for example, a simple description that X rolled his eyes. It would always be qualified along the lines of, X rolled his eyes in disgust, or X rolled his eyes jokingly, a grin slowly spreading across his face.

I guess what I'm saying is that unlike the smilies for Mad, Embarrassed or Confused, which have relatively clear cut meanings in most cases, the Roll of the Eyes or the Big Grin can often be close to meaningless without qualification.
 
semi-pro waster said:
We really don't. It's one of the things that makes this forum distinctive is the simplicity of the smilies - you've got a limited choice and arguably if you need to use smilies then maybe you're not conveying your point well enough with the text anyway. ;)
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Universally known as the "WTF you talkin' 'bout?". Seems to get people's backs up though :p:D
 
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