Are smileys being phased out?

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I swear there used to be an evil smiley. I remember looking for a different smiley once before, and not finding it. And I KNOW there was a “Putz” smiley long ago. I got a mod-slap-on-the-wrist for saying “Putz” once when I noticed the smiley was gone.

Are they being removed??? Why???

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Ok, I see where the Putz smiley went.

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[QUOTE=CoG888]
Ok, I see where the Putz smiley went.
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Which is where? I noticed a little while ago that both the “Wally” Putz smiley and the “HOJM” Happy Orthodox Jewish Man smiley were gone.

Were they removed as a matter of policy, elminimated during a software upgrade and not manually replaced, or something else?

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[QUOTE=wolfstu]
Which is where?
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The answer is explained here. In short, the administration decided they were more trouble than they were worth.

IMHO: I liked HOJM, because it was so incongruous. It was like the most overly-specific thing you could put into a list of emotions to be expressed. It fit into the roster of smileys like a Macintosh SE case-cracker fit into a household toolbox. I don’t think I ever used it.

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what was Smashie?

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Back during “The Winter of Our Missed Content” we were temporarily on another outside message board while this one was being rebuilt.

The temporary board had a variety of smilies including an animated one with a hammer. We turned off the animation very quickly but even the static smilie was a bit hit, so to speak.

Some people promptly fell in love with “Smashie,” as they called him, and have been asking for him ever since.

We resisted the urge to bring Smashie with us when we returned here as the smiley set was not royalty free and we did not have the right to simply appropriate the image.

The current smilies in place are, I believe, vB standard and there are no issues with their use. We do not currently anticipate adding to the list, though perhaps in future (especially with any possible vB upgrade) that situation may change.

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I, for one, demand a smiley expressing hate and contempt. Bet the designer of the original smiley never thought of anything remotely like it…

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Astroboy falls to his knees, sobbing and shaking his fists at an uncaring sky

SMAAAAASHIEEEEEE!

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Can we get a Barfie?

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[QUOTE=Swallowed My Cellphone]
Can we get a Barfie?
[/QUOTE]

Dear God, no.

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[QUOTE=wolfstu]
The answer is explained here. In short, the administration decided they were more trouble than they were worth.

IMHO: I liked HOJM, because it was so incongruous. It was like the most overly-specific thing you could put into a list of emotions to be expressed. It fit into the roster of smileys like a Macintosh SE case-cracker fit into a household toolbox. I don’t think I ever used it.
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Well, with the long wavy locks of hair at the temples looking like tentacles, he was also the smiley of choice for use in invocations of Cthulhu.

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[QUOTE=Swallowed My Cellphone]
Can we get a Barfie?
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The ever-popular Anorexic Barbie smiley.

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:frowning:

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I keep hoping people will just stop using them. (All the smilies, not just the HOJM.)

Use your words, people.

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[QUOTE=Baldwin]
I keep hoping people will just stop using them. (All the smilies, not just the HOJM.)

Use your words, people.
[/QUOTE]

:stuck_out_tongue:

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[QUOTE=Swallowed My Cellphone]
Can we get a Barfie?
[/QUOTE]

YES! With green barf. Gotta have green barf. I gotta thing for green barf. :slight_smile:

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[QUOTE=Baldwin]
I keep hoping people will just stop using them. (All the smilies, not just the HOJM.)

Use your words, people.
[/QUOTE]

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:wink:

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I think wolfstu’s articulate and erudite response spoke for all us smiley-lovers board-wide.
:smiley: :smiley: :smiley: :stuck_out_tongue: :wink: :slight_smile:

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:slight_smile: :slight_smile: :slight_smile: :confused: :mad: :frowning: :eek:

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[QUOTE=Baldwin]
I keep hoping people will just stop using them. (All the smilies, not just the HOJM.)

Use your words, people.
[/QUOTE]
The best smilies aid in the fight against ignorance by softening speech and drama.

Furthermore, it can be difficult to convey attitude with the mere written word: the smilie permits something similar to tone of voice.

Along those lines, a barf-smilie is a bad idea. It’s unnecessary and tends to add heat. Ick. *

The dubious smilie is essentially a softened roll-eyes. Smackie is preferable to the embarrassed icon.

What we still need though is an alternative to the winky, something amiable but a little less corny. I’m not sure what we might call it though: :facetious: doesn’t seem right and would be easily misspelled. :twinkle: doesn’t work well, nor does :simpatico: or :congenial:.

:kidding: ? :joshing: ?
Obligatory: :frowning:
Then again, we could just try upgrading the winky itself.

  • See? Doesn’t “Ick” work well enough?