Does anyone want to change the text for the emoticons?

[IRC]

I always have to go back and look for what to use for certain emoticons. Such as using : tear instead of or : wink instead of . I was just wondering if anyone wanted to suggest changing some of the other ones to the traditional emoticon text.

[Ryner]

Re: Does anyone want to change the text for the emoticons?

Then we'd have half the emoticons as smiley faces and half as words, unless you can think of a smiley face for






Now, I'd like to make a joke about how it shouldn't be hard for you to remember that the code for the wink emoticon is : wink

[IRC]

Re: Does anyone want to change the text for the emoticons?

8D or 8XD

But I'm talking about just for the smiley face emoticons. Naturally the picture emoticons would remain as they are. Really I'm surprised you find this confusing.

[Ryner]

Re: Does anyone want to change the text for the emoticons?

And I'm surprised you can't remember that the emote for is : cry

[IRC]

Re: Does anyone want to change the text for the emoticons?

Well golly, I didn't realize you had such strong feelings on this issue.

[Valkysas]

Re: Does anyone want to change the text for the emoticons?

It it were to be changed, it'd be mora's decision, no one else's.

[IRC]

Re: Does anyone want to change the text for the emoticons?

I know.

[Chad]

Re: Does anyone want to change the text for the emoticons?

Would that break previous 's?

[Chrome Homura]

Re: Does anyone want to change the text for the emoticons?

I think so. If the text were to be changed, all posts containing changed emotes would then break. As in you'd just see text. Not so good a thing IMHO.

The emotes are fine, if you cant remember the text just use the little menu thing.

[IRC]

Re: Does anyone want to change the text for the emoticons?

The ones that I would want to see changed are to , to , to , to , to , and add the old yellow and non-stimpy :/.

While yes it would remove some emoticons now after a week most of those will have fallen off the front pages. If we all had Chrome's attitude there would be no

[Czechs Mex]

Re: Does anyone want to change the text for the emoticons?

I would be a fan of bringing back both the yellow and another sideways face in addition to Stimpy. What I'd really like to see back is the old school guy (the one that had open eyes and no teeth - it looked sort of like a south park character). It was great for mock enthusiasm.

I agree that IRC's smiley codes are probably a little easier to remember (besides the drool guy), and might make me resort to the table a little less, but:

1) Using the emote table takes like 5 seconds, so who cares?
2) Like someone else said, all the old emotes would break. Even if the front page was cleared eventually, we'd still have emoticonless archives.

If the change was implemented, maybe both old and new emote codes could be acceptable, and just one of them could be listed in the table. That way the archive emotes could remain functional, and we wouldn't have duplicates in the table.





Wow, I just posted many paragraphs about something I ultimately don't give a **** about.

[Chrome Homura]

Re: Does anyone want to change the text for the emoticons?

If we all had Chrome's attitude there would be no

Wtf do you mean by that?

[IRC]

Re: Does anyone want to change the text for the emoticons?

Exactly what I said. There would be no dumpster emote if no one was willing to accept change.

[Czechs Mex]

Re: Does anyone want to change the text for the emoticons?

Oh, IRC.


He's saying we should stick with what we have because otherwise the old emotes will break. Nothing had to break to add dumpster.

[IRC]

Re: Does anyone want to change the text for the emoticons?

Which is understandable. I just value the I'm going to make tomorrow more than I do the I made yesterday.

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