# Hey! they've got animated smilies

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-theyve-got-animated-smilies/70606>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [June 29, 2001, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-theyve-got-animated-smilies/70606 "2001-06-29T12:35:15Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2001, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-theyve-got-animated-smilies/70606/21 "2001-07-08T11:39:06Z")

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Bandwidth and admin. issues aside, animated smilies are really, really irritating. Get those, and it’s a short step to pop-up windows and forced midi files.

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**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 8, 2001, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-theyve-got-animated-smilies/70606/22 "2001-07-08T14:17:31Z")

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> \*Originally posted by No Bones \*  
> \*\*I just don’t like liars. Oh, excuse me, I should say people who make phoney excuses with the intent to cover up. I like the board. I like the posters who are honest. It’s just that when mods lie it makes me want to make them face the fact. \*\*

Oh, just bite me. We’re doing our best here, each and every one of us. If you don’t appreciate it, there’s lots of other boards in cyberspace, perhaps someone else somewhere else can operate to your satisfaction.

your humble TubaDiva  
Administrator

PS BTW, I don’t think we’ll EVER have animated smilies – most of the Teeming Millions dislike them.

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**Author:** ![sdimbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sdimbert/32/20204_2.png) [@sdimbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sdimbert)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2001, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-theyve-got-animated-smilies/70606/23 "2001-07-10T04:13:37Z")

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> \*Originally posted by TubaDiva \*  
> [BOh, just bite me. We’re doing our best here, each and every one of us. If you don’t appreciate it, there’s lots of other boards in cyberspace, perhaps someone else somewhere else can operate to your satisfaction.
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> your humble TubaDiva  
> Administrator
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> PS BTW, I don’t think we’ll EVER have animated smilies – most of the Teeming Millions dislike them. \*\*

Can I just say… I _love_ it when **Tuba** gets pissed enough to be vulgar. It makes the whole experience more… real, somehow. Does that make any sense.

Oh… and put me down on the LoDWHAS[sup\*[/sup].

\*[sub]List of Dopers Who Hate Animated Smileys.[/sub]

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**Author:** ![T\_Bill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8e8cbc/32.png) [@T\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/T_Bill)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2001, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-theyve-got-animated-smilies/70606/24 "2001-07-10T13:26:47Z")

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Seems to me the mods often think people hate them, when the problem is that they just don’t understand how much they let people down when they promise more than they can deliver. Sure one answer is to swear. A better one would be to promise less or deliver on what you do promise.

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**Author:** ![jab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee7513/32.png) [@jab1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jab1)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2001, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-theyve-got-animated-smilies/70606/25 "2001-07-10T18:37:52Z")

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Put me down as indifferent to animated smilies. By that, I mean that I would not care if you used them unless it made the board even slower.

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