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JosefGiven is offline JosefGiven
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Tavistock, Devon, UK
Jan 2001
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Smilies 'n' Message Icons - Rumbles of dissent? Get a bigger avatar today!

Smilies. I like 'em sir, yes I do. But this doesn't mean there isn't room for improvement.

Take the , or embarrassment smilie, for example. Looks a bit too much like the 'angry' smilie, wouldn't you say? For the record, I'd like to see an 'ouch' smilie:

><
O

An ASCII version, for your perusal. Would've centred the 'O', but couldn't, y'see?

Where real change is needed is the Message Icon list. That uniform shade of blue just isn't expressive enough. As an act of protest, I have boycotted the choice of icons granted when writing a new post, so this thread starter will sport the default 'paper list' icon. Born to be wild, I was.

Also, I have read genuine complaints that posters (people, not the wall decorations) have not been able to alter their message icons when editing their posts. A minor, perhaps even insignificant, quibble, yes; given the extent of the tragedies we see daily on the news. But there you go.

Well, what d'you think? Like to see any smilie/icon reform going on? Write here, or forever hold your piece...sorry, peace.


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Put an end to popups!

Somebody has to do it!

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loinburger is offline loinburger
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Jul 1999
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At http://www.somethingawful.com they use UBB forums, and they have a few additional smilies and message icons available. I'm not sure what they've got now (I haven't seen their forums for about six months, ever since they stopped making Soap Banditos comics), but a few icons/smilies that they used to have were...

a tiny hand with a tiny middle finger extended
some flames (for flame posts)
a smilie with x's for eyes and tongue lolling out with green skin (a corpse)

And many more. As you can see there are certainly improvements that can be made to the Apolyton smilies and message icons.

Dis is offline Dis
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I like all of our smiles except for the one. we need to replace it with acol's
<font size=1 face=Arial color=444444>[This message has been edited by Dissident (edited February 07, 2001).]</font>

Ming is offline Ming
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Moving this thread to the Apolyton forum from the OTF.
There, the Admin will have a better chance of seeing it! You can carry on any discussion there.

Thread Moved!

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Put an end to popups!

Speaking on behalf of Markos and myself, I believe that the smilies are fine the way they are; naturally, there will be those that disagree with us as is the nature of anything in life.

Again, we don't see nay reason to make any changes right now, but if those who would like to see changes make suggestions not only what they think should be replaced but what they believe they should be replaced with -- a process that has already begun -- we'll listen.

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Eli is offline Eli
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Jul 2000
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Full PM-box? Change here!

How difficult will it be to add couple smileys?

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Full PM-box? Change here!

Replacing existing smilies is one thing, but adding them is another.

In addition, we have other plans in the works that could easily interfere with any such plans in this regard -- you'll see.

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TCO is offline TCO
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Increase the size of your Attachments

Dan, why so mysterious? Top secret affairs?

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yeah, tell us all about it!!!

really, a newbie wants to tell the admins how to design their fora, what a mess

TELL US ALL ABOUT YOUR PLANS, DAN!!!

Henrik is offline Henrik
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Yes! Please do.

MikeH is offline MikeH
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I never use those message icons anyway.

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Inflate your Upload Space

You'll all just have to wait and see.



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Eli is offline Eli
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Get a bigger avatar today!

How long?

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Not yet determined...

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