I have already resubmitted Cecil. I consider the ones from the previous poll to be in the “SDMB public domain”, so you can resubmit one of those if you want. I was also hoping from a couple of new ones, but my plan is to stop after the first nine acceptable submissions.
To see the list of submissions in the first poll, go to my webpage (click the www button under my post) and then go to the link labelled “:)”.
I take it you mean the second smiley in the “Number 6” submission. Done.
Yes, though I will be more picky in determining which ones are eligible. Some of the smilies from the first poll, while being well executed, didn’t seem to add a lot of value (e.g. not expressing any particular emotion) since we’re limiting the number of smilies.
That is correct, sir.
You could always resubmit the “Yuk” or “Barf” smiley from the first poll.
I take it that the link in my previous post has answered your question.
Thanks Arnold! You are a gentleman and a scholar.
Yeah Arnold; I don’t [sub]hiccup[/sub] care what roadkiller says about ya
What, you mean we can’t just beg for smilies and have someone else design them?
I mean, we clearly need Detatched/Suspicious, TMI/Gross, and Geek smilies, but I don’t have the design skills. 
Can we redo the “embarrassed” smilie while we’re at it? This :o just doesn’t look like “embarrassed” to me, it looks more like “bored.”
I’ll say this again - anyone can resubmit one of the smilies from the previous voting period.
But just posting here and asking “I wish we had a smiley that shows this emotion” is going to have zero effect on the submissions included in the next poll.
I see wutcha mean, Arnold. So, I suppose I’ll be the one to maybe get around ter doin somethin like that mayhaps. [sub]Hiccup[/sub]
I think Dooku has a great idea. Somebody should redesign the :embarrassed: smiley and submit it for the poll. If that option is elected, it replaces the old one instead of being a new addition.
Notwithstanding the fact that this kind of input has zero effect on the poll.
Also, is there ever going to come a point in the “Great Smiley Elections” where we start replacing instead of adding smilies? I believe that idea came up in previous discussions…
For the life of me I can’t understand the popularity of some of the smilies in the last poll. A smilie is supposed to express an emotion for heaven’s sake. Disregarding how well they might be drawn, I fail to see how the proposed hijack, tinfoil hat, Cecil, or even smashie expresses an emotion.
Thank goodness smackie won last time. I’m not a huge fan of smiles myself, but at least smackie makes sense.
I recognize the futility of suggesting a smilie without actually creating one for submission… but I would use a smilie that expresses “I bow down to your wisdom and knowledge”.
You alright there, Blackeyes?
Not only that, but some folks use it to refer to (ahem) oral gratifiation.:eek:
I may have got to this too late for this round, but as I said last time
The barfing smiley would be so incredibly popular that, should it be adopted, we would promptly need to hire a cleaning staff.
I’ll never vote for a barfing smiley. I much prefer to say “where’s that barfing smiley when you need it” to actually having the smiley.
A multi-page one-round poll only could work if we ensure that a candidate’s chances aren’t in any way affected by its location in and on the pages. We’d need special software to generate ballots with randomly shuffled content, and to disregard votes from users who didn’t vote on all pages. In that case we might as well use a proper one-page poll.
Replacing an image with a similar one, maybe, but we can’t trade one smiley for another. Codes of old smileys have to be kept, to properly display old threads. I don’t think the current software can distinguish between active and disabled smileys in new posts. Once it’s installed, we keep it - choose wisely.
Since it’s approval voting, failing to vote in any page would be the same as not voting for any smiley on that page. If, over five pages you wanted to vote for one smiley, you would vote for that smiley on that page and not vote on the other pages (clearly the way to vote if you wanted no more). 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. And so on: you may express approval for as many or as few smileys as you like, over as many pages as you like. As long as all the polls are available at the same time, there’s no wuckers.
I take your point about the placement of smileys, but the problem is much diminished in a one round vote, since no smiley is (dis)advantaged by being place in a weak (strong) group. Besides, Arnold qualifies as “special software”.