# Smilie tests **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [May 24, 2004, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smilie-tests/246733 "2004-05-24T02:10:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2004, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smilie-tests/246733/1 "2004-05-24T02:10:12Z")
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**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2004, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smilie-tests/246733/2 "2004-05-24T02:11:42Z")
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**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2004, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smilie-tests/246733/3 "2004-05-24T02:12:57Z")
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**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2004, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smilie-tests/246733/4 "2004-05-24T02:14:49Z")
๐Ÿ˜ƒ :dubious: :rolleyes: ๐Ÿ†’ :smack: ๐Ÿ˜› :wally ๐Ÿ˜‰ ;j ๐Ÿ˜• :o :eek: โ˜น :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2004, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smilie-tests/246733/5 "2004-05-24T02:16:11Z")
๐Ÿ˜ƒ :smack: ๐Ÿ˜ƒ :smack: ๐Ÿ˜ƒ :smack: :eek: :eek: :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2004, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smilie-tests/246733/6 "2004-05-24T02:17:23Z")
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**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2004, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smilie-tests/246733/7 "2004-05-24T02:18:41Z")
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**Author:** ![Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jimmy\_Chitwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimmy_Chitwood)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2004, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smilie-tests/246733/8 "2004-05-24T02:20:16Z")
Heh. Iโ€™ve been doing the same thing except in preview over in that Pit thread. I managed to get the big D to turn into a small D once, but Iโ€™ll be damned if I can replicate it. Something to do with shift, I think. Hey, howโ€™d you do it? ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2004, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smilie-tests/246733/9 "2004-05-24T02:21:40Z")
> [@](#): > > That post was a duplicate of a post you made in the last 5 minutes. > You will be directed toโ€ฆ No it wasnโ€™t. I put a space in front of the big grin smilie that time. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2004, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smilie-tests/246733/10 "2004-05-24T02:25:15Z")
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**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2004, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smilie-tests/246733/11 "2004-05-24T02:28:08Z")
It looks like a bug in vB. The capitol D in the big grin smilie gets lowercased when that smilie is the only content in a post. The other smilies mostly have lower case 2nd characters, but the frown โ˜น ": ( " works anyway. Time to start agitating for a major revision to the BBS software! ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2004, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smilie-tests/246733/12 "2004-05-24T02:30:02Z")
Iโ€™ve been generating the smilies by clicking on the smilie buttons. Letโ€™s try doing it manually, after waiting 60 sec. for this post to clear. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2004, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smilie-tests/246733/13 "2004-05-24T02:31:10Z")
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**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2004, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smilie-tests/246733/14 "2004-05-24T02:34:09Z")
Same result. Maybe thereโ€™s a browser issue here? My copy of IE 5.2.3 (Mac) occassionally mangles the first couple characters of my post when I preview (in the editing window, not the preview itself). ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2004, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smilie-tests/246733/15 "2004-05-24T02:35:47Z")
Well that experiment padded my post count nicely. ๐Ÿ˜ƒ ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2004, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smilie-tests/246733/16 "2004-05-24T23:20:15Z")
The Reason For The Smilie Thing Is That If The Post Is In All Caps Like This One Was Originally, The Software Converts It To Title Caps, I.e., Leaves Only The First Letter Of Every Word Uppercase, As You Can See It Has Done To This Post. One Lowercase Character Should Defeat This. If The Only Thing In The Post Is The Colon-uppercase D Smilie, The D Is The Only Letter, Itโ€™s Uppercase, And It Isnโ€™t The First Character Of A Word. Apparently Because Of The Preceding Space, The Colon Is Considered The Beginning Of The Word. Therefore The D Gets Lowercased, And The Smilie Graphic Isnโ€™t Inserted. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2004, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smilie-tests/246733/17 "2004-05-24T23:25:04Z")
TEST - THE ONLY LOWER CASE CHARACTER IS THIS โ€œoโ€ BETWEEN THE QUOTES. ๐Ÿ˜ƒ THAT SHOULD HAVE THE GRAPHIC CORRECTLY. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2004, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smilie-tests/246733/18 "2004-05-25T00:20:08Z")
Capslock On. Type Some Stuff About Something Or Other. Add A Grin Smiley :d Try One In The Middle Of A W:dord. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2004, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smilie-tests/246733/19 "2004-05-25T00:24:37Z")
Sure enough, it killed the smilies. Thanks **rowrrbazzle**. ๐Ÿ˜ƒ