Every time I reply to a message, I see four boxes which can be left checked or unchecked: “Automatically parse URLs,” “Email Notification,” “Disable Smilies in this Post,” and “Show Signature.” The boxes are pretty much easy to understand, but what I want to know is simple: why would anyone want to disable smilies in their posts?
If they don’t want to have them on their screens, that’s one thing. And if they don’t want smilies clogging up their “action code” (ie. :jumps for joy: ), that’s another. But I can’t think of any other reasons why anyone wouldn’t want these pretty colored smilies in their posts; even better that they all have their own color! Of course, if I jsut answered my own question, so much the better, I suppose.
:o :rolleyes: :mad: :eek: ;j :wally
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Why A Duck, I’ve seen a few posts here and there that have actually had smilies in the message where they were plainly not intended to be. I’m not sure it’s something I could do a search on, so I won’t. (besides which, it bogs down the search engine)
kabbes, I remember seeing that sig line a fair number of times; unfortunately, I can’t remember whose it’s supposed to be. Now, is this something I could do a search on? Very likely, if I remembered who it was, maybe.
Well, I did do a search, having nothing else better to do: I thought it was Jack Batty, but it wasn’t. Fortuitously, the poster with that sig (“Disable smilies in this post”) also posted to the thread I looked at… the answer is AHunter3.
Plus some people just hate smilies. Where is ChiefScott, anyway?
It can also save a wee bit of load time… not much, but significant on a slow connection.
In addition to :dances around with magical pixies in their fabulous magical mountain village: action-type posts, it can screw up coding in a similar way.
Well, I remember trying to correct my typo as soon as I noticed it, but was stymied by the “60 seconds in between posts” rule. Although I guess it sounds neat that way, too… shrug