# Smiley Voting - Election 2 **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 19, 2002, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smiley-voting-election-2/143890 "2002-12-19T20:49:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smiley-voting-election-2/143890/1 "2002-12-19T20:49:31Z")
**Adding a new smiley** We will be adding a new smiley at the SDMB. The smiley will be chosen by popular vote, using the approval method of voting (you can vote for more than one candidate, the candidate with the most votes will win - see [at this page](http://www.idhop.addr.com/av/) a description of approval voting.) **The polling process** We have 9 candidates and the “No new smilies” choice. The voting is set up to last 14 days. If the winner is a category with two or more smilies (e.g. wry has two submissions), there will be one final poll to choose the best smiley for that category, with an expiration date of five days. If the result is a tie, the winner will be decided by Arnold Winkelried flipping a swiss coin (to have a double guarantee of swiss neutrality) to determine the winner. **Candidates** [List of candidates](http://home.earthlink.net/~awinkelried/smpoll/index.html#proposed). **Threads of interest** [The second great smiley election](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=148441) (If you follow the links in this thread, you will be able to read all about the first smiley election.) Let the best smiley win! ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smiley-voting-election-2/143890/2 "2002-12-19T20:52:15Z")
P.S. - Practice voting here! [Practice Poll](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=151536) ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smiley-voting-election-2/143890/3 "2002-12-19T20:55:58Z")
NO NEW SMILIES!!! ---
**Author:** ![Goober\_McFly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/49beb7/32.png) [@Goober\_McFly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Goober_McFly)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smiley-voting-election-2/143890/4 "2002-12-19T21:07:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Arnold Winkelried \* > \*\*P.S. - Practice voting here! > [Practice Poll](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=151536) \*\* Is this for the Florida Dopers? ---
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smiley-voting-election-2/143890/5 "2002-12-19T21:19:48Z")
> [@](#): > > The people who cast the votes don’t decide an election, the people who count the votes do. Joseph Stalin ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smiley-voting-election-2/143890/6 "2002-12-19T21:24:35Z")
Can we campaign (or however it’s spelled) here? ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smiley-voting-election-2/143890/7 "2002-12-19T22:19:10Z")
Sure, go ahead and campaign in this thread. ---
**Author:** ![bluecanary](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bluecanary/32/3614_2.png) [@bluecanary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bluecanary)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smiley-voting-election-2/143890/8 "2002-12-19T22:59:12Z")
My two’pennorth: Vote YUK!! It’s needed far more than any of the others (at least in the threads I read, which maybe says more about me than it does about smilies) And Down With NOT LISTENING–If you think :rolleyes: is abused now wait 'til we get this one. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smiley-voting-election-2/143890/9 "2002-12-20T00:04:37Z")
Wry! Wry! Wry! ---
**Author:** ![Flowerchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/858c86/32.png) [@Flowerchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flowerchild)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smiley-voting-election-2/143890/10 "2002-12-20T01:33:45Z")
We must have a smiley modeled after our perfect master, A shrine to all that is Cecil. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smiley-voting-election-2/143890/11 "2002-12-20T03:23:52Z")
Dubious – it’s so…Cary Grant. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smiley-voting-election-2/143890/12 "2002-12-20T03:55:52Z")
I _really_ like the **dubious** How many times have you read a reply and thought o yoourself, “What? No way!” but couldn’t quite come up with a short answer that would carry enough weight? Plus, if you don’t trust the poster, but don’t think a Pitting is needed. Evil is good. ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smiley-voting-election-2/143890/13 "2002-12-20T03:56:11Z")
Oh the irony… I was writing a pro “evil hamster” post and the things ate my post. 🐹 !!! ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smiley-voting-election-2/143890/14 "2002-12-20T03:59:21Z")
sory for the spelling above, I’m a little under the bottle… Is drinking still permitted on the SDMB? 'Cause I think I need a cab home I am home What the…?.. I don’t have a cat… Yipper! I need a cab. But, really, **dubious** ---
**Author:** ![Jayrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Jayrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayrot)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smiley-voting-election-2/143890/15 "2002-12-20T05:26:55Z")
Everyone vote for _not listening_ or else I won’t listen to anything else you say. ---
**Author:** ![Wikkit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c0e974/32.png) [@Wikkit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wikkit)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smiley-voting-election-2/143890/16 "2002-12-20T05:57:55Z")
**dubious**! Everything said above, plus it has that great Spock eyebrow thing going on. It also has the huge advantage compared to most of those that it’s the same size as the standard smileys. It won’t make the lines break oddly like :smack:, :wally, and 😕 do. ---
**Author:** ![Saltire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saltire/32/553_2.png) [@Saltire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saltire)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smiley-voting-election-2/143890/17 "2002-12-20T06:53:51Z")
I’d like to urge everyone to look closely at :gobsmacked: I think it would be very useful. **Arnold** , do we get to vote on the name, though? I think I’d like it even better if its vB code wasn’t half-Gaelic slang. Not that there’s anything basically wrong with Gaelic, but it should be something more widely used in the whole English-speaking world. :shock: perhaps? :dumbstruck:? :holy crap!: Admittedly, I’m not coming up with much better. But someone should. I’m glad it’s approval voting. I’ll probably vote for at least 4 of these. ---
**Author:** ![Saltire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saltire/32/553_2.png) [@Saltire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saltire)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smiley-voting-election-2/143890/18 "2002-12-20T06:55:39Z")
How about :jawdrop:? ---
**Author:** ![t-keela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a3d4f5/32.png) [@t-keela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/t-keela)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smiley-voting-election-2/143890/19 "2002-12-20T06:57:17Z")
WEBSTERS : Dubious - Main Entry: du·bi·ous Pronunciation: 'dü-bE-&s also dyü- Function: adjective Etymology: Latin dubius, from dubare to vacillate; akin to Latin duo two – more at TWO Date: 1548 1 : giving rise to uncertainty: as a : of doubtful promise or outcome \ b : questionable or suspect as to true nature or quality \ \ 2 : unsettled in opinion : DOUBTFUL \ synonym see DOUBTFUL - du·bi·ous·ly adverb - du·bi·ous·ness noun Now, I’m still just a newbie around here (I guess) but is this what you want in a smilie? Hell, we know you’re doubtful, actually that’s not even strong enough. WE DON’T BELIEVE YOU UNLESS YOU CAN PROVE IT! So, why waste a smiley on something so weak as “Well I kinda doubt it”,…bullshit Let 'em know what you mean! God-damned evil hamsters…I just spent an hour writing, proofing, citing my sources and links only to have those damned evil HAMSTERS eat my inspiring piece of work. MAYBE then, someone will get the message. or perhaps y’all would prefer a smiley walking both sides of the fence. \…need more mustard on them biscuits ---
**Author:** ![t-keela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a3d4f5/32.png) [@t-keela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/t-keela)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2002, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smiley-voting-election-2/143890/20 "2002-12-20T07:03:06Z")
and BTW…what’s this crap about only, what is it? 96 members have voted? How many members are there? Come on people, it’s folks like you that get people like \_\_\_\_\_ voted into office! Get off your ass and be heard! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smiley-voting-election-2/143890.md?page=2)