Another vote for Barfy-he always was pretty cute.
I still miss “Smashie” from the temp boards, though.
[Sigh]
I hate smilies [har]. They support weak writing skills [Gag] that the very most simple
[Ech] words can overcome and we already have verbal conventions.
[Heh.]
Why don’t we just start texting on the SDMB? OMG!!1eleven.
I’d like a barfing smiley. I think jjimm’s is good, and in keeping with our existing style.
I don’t care about Happy Orthodox Jewish Man.
The Putz smiley is worse than useless – despite being in the collection of ornaments we can use, it is regarded as a direct insult and cannot be used in certain fora. It’s a waste of space.
The blowjob smiley is bad, as is the Stick Out Tongue one – both can stay, if they are replaced with better art.
My two cents. Times a few, I guess. 
I think it’s pretty universally agreed that the embarassed smiley needs new art. I’ve always been partial to a sweatdrop emote myself, but I also watch way too much anime.
It is blasphemous to depict Og!
Heathen!
If we open it to a vote, I agree that I see no point in ;j , do agree that :o is the international symbol of the blowjob. I would vote for keeping :wally since, even though I haven’t used it (that I recall) I do like to have the option. And yes, the demand for the vomit/disgusted smiley does seem to necessitate the existence of it.
Just don’t touch :dubious:, :smack:, :D, or :eek: (particularly the first two) as though as perfect.
How about one like this for a puking smilie? I don’t know where that particular board gets their smilies, but they also use V-Bulletin software, if that means anything.
Do you really want animations? Don’t you find they take aways from boards that have them?
Jim
Why don’t we do just that?
I keep hearing how there’s a new version that the board needs to be updated to, so why don’t we update the smilies as well?
Here’s my plan:
[ul]
[li]Leave all current smilies. We can’t eliminate the old ones or old posts may lose meaning. With the possible exception of updating one or two to make sure that their meaning is clearly conveyed.[/li]
[li]Add (a few) new smilies. I think that there is enough desire from the teemings that we should update the smilie list. There are only 15 smilies. Although I don’t think that we need 15,000,000 smilies, 3 or 6 more would not be way too much, and it would not inundate the smilie box. [/li]
[li]Vote on them. Have someone volunteer to run Official Smilie Vote Threads over in IMHO. Get smilies to be voted on preapproved by TPTB, and let the Teeming Millions have their say.*[/li][/ul]
Personally, I would recommend updating the “embarased” (/bj-giving) smilie, leaving the rest, and adding: The Puking Smilie, The Crying Smilie, and the Yawning Smilie.
I don’t think that this will tax the boards or TPTB too much. I don’t think that 3 new smilies will make the SDMB look like myspace (or whatever)
*I would never ask anyone else to volunteer for something I wouldn’t do. So, I will volunteer to run this campaign. There’s a catch, though. I won’t be able to even start this until June. (I’ll have reeeeeaaaalllyyy busy schedule for the next 7 weeks.) If TPTB will let me run and tally the voting threads (I’ll collect the smilies to be voted on and pass on for pre-approval to TPTB, too), I think that the mods/admins won’t need to to much but sit back and watch.
well, since I did all that work JUST for this particular thread, I will repost my smilies as entries for consideration…
It may not be perfectly appropriate to bring it up in this thread, but I would like to abolish all smileys. Every one of them. Or, barring that, have unstable rotating smileys. You insert a smiley, but it changes to Happy orthodox, or to puking next time you log in.
OOH! Chaotic Smiley! I like!
I love Happy Orthodox smiley and have seen him used well in the past. The putz smiley seems pointless, since the smile basically negates the “putz” balloon. Maybe if he didn’t look so happy . . . The smile part could be replaced with :mad: That would at least make more sense.
I don’t care for a vomitting smiley. That’s just gross. And I agree that the blow job smiley has got to go.
I would be very sorry to see Orthodox smiley leave. He’s got charisma. That said, my favorite smiley is :dubious: It’s the perfect smiley for the Straight Dope.
Has ANYONE read this fucking thread who’s posted here?
That suggests to me that the name-calling is tongue-in-cheek, which means there are lots of uses for it in every forum. Why I’m the only one who sees it this way, I don’t know.
Well, the OP did ask “Can we PLEASE get a Vomiting Smilie?” I just posted an example of one I had run across at a different board.
From a personal standpoint, I won’t lose any sleep over the choice they make one way or the other.
I’d like to see another thread like we did last time: nominations accepted up until a certain cutoff date, voting up until another cutoff date, one smilie accepted to be added to the board.
I would also like a referendum on fixing the smilies that need to be fixed in order to work. An embarrassed smilie would be nice to have; :o ain’t it. Something more like this is needed.
This is supposed to be a grinning smilie. It should look more evil and snarky, like this. The existing one looks like some kind of self-effacing forelock-tugging fella.
He looks like he is holding his breath.
Yeah, I’m no artist. Someone else could do better.
The problem with the pukey smiley is that it would itself need a pukey smiley. Can some of the Lords of the Boards weigh in and tell us what the actual process is, if there is one?
(And by the way, I prefer the “smiley” spelling by miles over “smilie.”)
I help run another board, so I’d imagine the process is similar: 1. upload smiley (if you insist) graphic to board’s “smiley storage” directory. 2. “Allow” smiley, which includes telling the software which code to respond to - on ours it’s :barf:. 3. Hit “submit”. Takes about 3 minutes to do.