# Any chance of another "Create A New SDMB Smiley" contest? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [July 23, 2009, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-chance-of-another-create-a-new-sdmb-smiley-contest/504025 "2009-07-23T18:37:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Saltire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saltire/32/553_2.png) [@Saltire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saltire)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2009, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-chance-of-another-create-a-new-sdmb-smiley-contest/504025/1 "2009-07-23T18:37:23Z")
Long ago, the great Arnold organized a drive for dopers to create new smiles for the boards, which were then voted upon. The winners, :dubious: and :smack:, were added to the boards. The old threads in which this happened may have been purged. At least, I can’t find them. I think it would be loads of fun to do again. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2009, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-chance-of-another-create-a-new-sdmb-smiley-contest/504025/2 "2009-07-23T21:46:21Z")
Only completely new ones, or would new versions of existing smileys also be accepted in such a contest, to theoretically replace the old ones? Because as I said in another thread, the embarrassment smiley is an embarrassment. ---
**Author:** ![Saltire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saltire/32/553_2.png) [@Saltire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saltire)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2009, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-chance-of-another-create-a-new-sdmb-smiley-contest/504025/3 "2009-07-23T23:47:50Z")
Personally, I think any smiley you can think of would be fair game, though I suppose the mods or admins would want to remove anything blatantly inappropriate. Obviously, they have the ability to add custom minigraphics. I’m not sure, however, if they can remove the standard ones. Until a vBulletin expert comes along, I’m going to assume that even if we added a new, better smiley on the theme of embarrassment, BJ smiley will still be there, and still have the ‘Embarrassment’ tooltip. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2009, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-chance-of-another-create-a-new-sdmb-smiley-contest/504025/4 "2009-07-24T03:15:17Z")
I want Smashie! ---
**Author:** ![Saltire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saltire/32/553_2.png) [@Saltire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saltire)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2009, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-chance-of-another-create-a-new-sdmb-smiley-contest/504025/5 "2009-07-27T18:51:55Z")
Is there any interest in this? What does the administration think? If it falls off the page one more time, I guess we’ll have to assume it’s a non-starter. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2009, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-chance-of-another-create-a-new-sdmb-smiley-contest/504025/6 "2009-07-27T19:54:02Z")
Not right now, I don’t think. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2009, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-chance-of-another-create-a-new-sdmb-smiley-contest/504025/7 "2009-07-27T19:54:47Z")
This is in no way personal nor any reflection on anyone or anything – it’s just so not a good time for this. ---
**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2009, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-chance-of-another-create-a-new-sdmb-smiley-contest/504025/8 "2009-07-27T19:58:23Z")
I’d love it… we need a tongue-out raspberry smilie… ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2009, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-chance-of-another-create-a-new-sdmb-smiley-contest/504025/9 "2009-07-27T23:38:31Z")
Smashie should be allowed. Of all the animated smileys, Smashie is the one which best exemplifies the emotions and messages of so many posters here. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-chance-of-another-create-a-new-sdmb-smiley-contest/504025/10 "2009-07-28T01:03:43Z")
No animated smilies. Ever. Period. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2009, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-chance-of-another-create-a-new-sdmb-smiley-contest/504025/11 "2009-07-28T01:30:04Z")
Eh, we can make do with a single-frame Smashie.