Faces, how to do?

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I’ve seen the faces like smiley faces and rolling eye faces. Where do you learn how to do them?

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Just a couple of tips from someone who has screwed up the coding many times: sometimes you will get an ‘accidental’ smilie. You didn’t want it there. It changes the whole meaning of what you said.

You can avoid this with three steps:

  1. You can check the box under the reply box that says: Disable Smilies in This Post, but it will disable all smilies.

  2. If you want some smilies, then watch your spacing and typing to make sure you get the ones you wanted.

Note: I have added slashes to clarify the examples - you would normally type these without the slashes. Ironically, I did not want accidental smilies ruining my examples.

[li] if the last colon is too near a parenthesis, you will get a smile instead of what you planned: e.g. if you type in :/eek/: ) expecting :eek: ), you would get :eek:) - the yellow happy face instead of the blue frightened face. Put a space between the last colon and the parenthesis.[/li]
[li] The colon and the capital D make :D. Really annoying when you get[/li]
::Does the happy dance::

when you wanted

::/Does the happy dance::

or ruins the whole meaning when you wanted to say

::/pouts::

and get

::pouts::

Again, a space works if you do not want to disable smilies.

[li]The embarrassed guy is made with the lowercase o, not the capital O or the number zero. :o, not :open_mouth: or :0[/li]
[li] It’s hard to read, but the happy Jewish guy shows up with the semicolon and the lowercase j. ;j not :j[/li]
3) Print this and tape it to your monitor in 72 point bold:

I will not only preview my post, I will actually proofread it before hitting “Submit Reply”.

You can experiment with and practice them here on ATMB. It saves you a lot of embarassment, and saves you asking/begging/pleading with a moderator to fix your coding in a post. They usually don’t mind doing it once or twice, but over and over again gets really tiresome.

Welcome and have fun here. We’re usually good people.

screech-owl
[Been there, done that unintentionally, hit “submit reply”, banged head on the desk after seeing what happened]

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:slight_smile:

:smiley:

:rolleyes:

:eek:

Cool. Thanks Screech-owl!