Second Class Smileys ...

Scouse Gits · July 12, 2002, 07:18

There was an earlier thread but it seems to have gone the journey ...

Why is :surrender

the only word smiley that does not have a terminating colon -- the punctuation mark you scatalogical fool!

SG[1]

Mr. President · July 12, 2002, 09:10

[Edited, due to misunderstanding]

Dauphin · July 12, 2002, 09:31

I can only guess as to what Mr President said.

Winston · July 12, 2002, 10:33

The smiley class problem in my view is that a good handful of them are not readily accessible when replying.

I think all the smilies should be available from the panel directly on the reply page. It's a drag to have to open the little window for the newer ones.

Scouse Gits · July 12, 2002, 10:53

Quote:

Originally posted by Sagacious Dolphin
I can only guess as to what Mr President said.

... yes, could he be my "scatalogical fool"?

SG[1]

Alex · July 12, 2002, 12:49

i think that the older ones should be replaced by the newer ones (not all of them, of course), because we already know how to code those older ones.

H Tower · July 12, 2002, 15:32

[sarcasm]but what about the newbies? we need to let the newbies learn the smiley codes![/sarcasm]

i really like alexnm's idea

DarkCloud · July 12, 2002, 15:37

alex's idea doesn't seem to make any sense?
could someone explain ti to me please?

ixnay · July 12, 2002, 15:38

My guess is the admins were just lazy when typing in the code for that smiley.

Dauphin · July 12, 2002, 15:55

DC.

Smilies that everyone is familiar with (i.e type in rather than click for) don't really need to be in the side panel on the left of the reply window, and so could be replaced by the smilies in the 'get more' link.

And if you can't remember how to do

etc, then you can use the 'get more' link to access them.

Alex · July 12, 2002, 19:07

Get the most common used smilies from the side panel and put them on the "Get More" link, replacing them with the 13 ones that are currently under that link. 20 of the smilies on the side panel could be replaced by the 13 ones on the link... and we would have space for more seven interesting smilies... (hint, hint).

Scouse Gits · July 12, 2002, 20:31

Basically - WE WANT MORE SMILEYS

SG[1] - drunk and alone @ 01:35 ...

Mr. President · July 12, 2002, 21:34

Quote:

I can only guess as to what Mr President said.

I didn't see where SG1 wrote "word smiley", so I said something about the "stick out tongue" smiley, which of course is not a word smiley and hence not pertinent to the discussion.

Winston · July 13, 2002, 01:27

While we're at it, besides wishing for all the smilies to be available directly from the reply page, I also propose a change so that when you click on a smiley from the panel, it is actually inserted in the text where the cursor is, and not at the end of the text. I often write the text first and then insert the smilies, and I'd like to avoid the cutting and pasting involved with the current system.

*End Is Forever* · July 13, 2002, 10:50

They're out to get you with their smilies, SG...

Scouse Gits · July 13, 2002, 15:29

Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean the world isn't out to get me!

SG[1]

zulu9812 · July 13, 2002, 16:24

Quote:

Originally posted by Winston
While we're at it, besides wishing for all the smilies to be available directly from the reply page, I also propose a change so that when you click on a smiley from the panel, it is actually inserted in the text where the cursor is, and not at the end of the text. I often write the text first and then insert the smilies, and I'd like to avoid the cutting and pasting involved with the current system.

I agree - it is a real pain...and your suggestion can't be that hard to implement.