# The second great smiley election **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [December 6, 2002, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-second-great-smiley-election/140886 "2002-12-06T08:23:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![femtosecond](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f08c70/32.png) [@femtosecond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/femtosecond)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2002, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-second-great-smiley-election/140886/41 "2002-12-12T18:30:48Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by hawthorne_ > **If you wanted to express your disapproval for one particular smiley, you would vote for every smiley on every page except the one you didn’t like.** What if someone wanted to vote for all except that stinker on page 5, but loses interest and stops voting on page 4? The whole page 5 would be discriminated, because in a one-round poll the absolute number of votes has to be used to compare the scores. Not voting for an item automatically implies a negative score against it, there’s exactly as much disapproval involved as approval, despite the name. The case of actively deciding against a whole page as opposed to just leaving one out isn’t distinguishable by the numbers. ---
**Author:** ![dreamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6bbea6/32.png) [@dreamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dreamer)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2002, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-second-great-smiley-election/140886/42 "2002-12-14T02:41:12Z")
Hey! :smack: Where the heck have I been?? I just saw this thread for the first time!! Thank you **Arnold** for letting us add some new :)'s. If there was a smiley that I could use right now it would be a _love_ smiley, or maybe a little _kissin’_ or _huggin’_ type of smiley. 🙂 Hmm…maybe we should have a Santa smiley… Or I KNOW!! A smiley for _every_ holiday!! OK, I’m getting carried away. Thanks again **Arnold** and Happy Holidays to you. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Wikkit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c0e974/32.png) [@Wikkit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wikkit)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-second-great-smiley-election/140886/43 "2002-12-16T07:05:06Z")
I re-subbed one of the ‘dubious’ smileys about an hour after this thread was started. I also asked in IMHO for a better abbreviation for it, so far it’s just :dub:. How many submissions do you have, **Arnold**? ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2002, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-second-great-smiley-election/140886/44 "2002-12-16T09:06:55Z")
I made up this barfy smilie and have used it for a couple of years – including once or twice here. I don’t know how to design a “clickable” smilie, so I just add this when it is appropriate: :-Q~~~ The problem is that it is such a pitiful effort that it makes me want to throw up.:smack: ---
**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 16, 2002, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-second-great-smiley-election/140886/45 "2002-12-16T18:15:10Z")
I did have nine smilies submitted by Friday evening. Almost all of them re-submissions from the first poll. The second smiley poll will start some day this week and (because of the holiday season) be set up to last two weeks. ---
**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 18, 2002, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-second-great-smiley-election/140886/46 "2002-12-18T18:56:33Z")
The poll will be up by tomorrow morning at the latest. Sorry about the delay. ---
**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, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-second-great-smiley-election/140886/47 "2002-12-19T20:56:29Z")
The poll is up now. See IMHO forum. [Smiley Voting - Election 2](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=151546) ---
**Author:** ![femtosecond](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f08c70/32.png) [@femtosecond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/femtosecond)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2003, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-second-great-smiley-election/140886/48 "2003-01-07T10:39:02Z")
By the way, the poll is closed now. It’s a dubious result, if you ask me. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2003, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-second-great-smiley-election/140886/49 "2003-01-07T13:54:38Z")
I’ll believe in “dubious” when I see it :dubious: ---
**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:** [January 7, 2003, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-second-great-smiley-election/140886/50 "2003-01-07T22:52:52Z")
[Poll Results](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=151546) The winner was the dubious smiley. Now I will ask jdavis if we can add it to our smiley list. ---
**Author:** ![femtosecond](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f08c70/32.png) [@femtosecond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/femtosecond)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2003, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-second-great-smiley-election/140886/51 "2003-01-07T23:02:26Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by AHunter3_ > > * * * > > Disable Similes in this Post You DO see the irony, don’t you? ---
**Author:** ![Wikkit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c0e974/32.png) [@Wikkit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wikkit)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2003, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-second-great-smiley-election/140886/52 "2003-01-08T06:41:37Z")
You DO see the spelling, right? My smiley won. What do I get? ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2003, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-second-great-smiley-election/140886/53 "2003-01-08T12:22:20Z")
A laurel, and a hearty handshake. ---
**Author:** ![femtosecond](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f08c70/32.png) [@femtosecond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/femtosecond)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2003, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-second-great-smiley-election/140886/54 "2003-01-08T14:24:56Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Wikkit_ > **You DO see the spelling, right?** Ever since [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?postid=2036727#post2036727) thread of course. The _meaning_ is funny in a post about smileys. 🙂 ---
**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:** [January 13, 2003, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-second-great-smiley-election/140886/55 "2003-01-13T23:11:48Z")
:dubious: Hmmmmmmm ---
**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:** [January 14, 2003, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-second-great-smiley-election/140886/56 "2003-01-14T00:32:04Z")
Yes! I admit it! I am now covered in sackcloth and ashes, to atone for my procrastination! Must you castigate me so? :weeping: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-second-great-smiley-election/140886.md?page=2)