03-07-2001 02:19									#1
	Hey Guys! It's now really easy to use smilies! Help yourself to an AD-FREE life

You don't need to remember the codes anymore. you can just click on the menu to the right. I just figured this out!





The "skeptical" smiley is one that I asked for!!

I still prefer to tease and troll (when I do) without smilies as it robs the remarks of their "edge" too much.

	03-07-2001 02:29									#2
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Damn, man! I mean yowza, your gift of noticing things is almost supernatural! The 'smilies' panel has been there only for, what, about a month, and now GP sees it! Miraculous.

Oh, and GP, in branching threads forum there wouldn't be a smilies panel

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	03-07-2001 02:43									#3
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ooops the panel is actually to the left. (This probably explains why we haven't seen any more threads asking how to make smilies and being directed to the FAQ.) BTW, Stefu...I am a hip dude now: avatar, smiley panel, etc. SO TAKE IT EASY ON THE BARNCHING THREADS [/EVC mode]

BTW: the second stick it throws is like a stick of dynamite, but what is the first stick?

	03-07-2001 02:46									#4
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wow so that is what that panel is for

	03-07-2001 02:50									#5
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See I'm not the only one....(hopes desperately Ras is not being a sarcastic penishead...

	03-07-2001 02:51									#6
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oops your smiley just showed up...I guess you were laughing!!

	03-07-2001 02:52									#7
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Stefu, could we compromise and have a branching thread forum with smilies? Please?

	03-07-2001 02:53									#8
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sorry GP ype i was being totally sarcastic

	03-07-2001 02:56									#9
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quote: BTW: the second stick it throws is like a stick of dynamite, but what is the first stick?

A match. Dammit man, it gets the word on fire, so whatever could it be?

quote: Stefu, could we compromise and have a branching thread forum with smilies? Please?

Don't make me repeat the smiley!

	03-07-2001 03:01									#10
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Ok excuse my ignorance, but what on earth is a branching thread !!

	03-07-2001 03:21									#11
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Oh....(insert "eager beaver" smilie...note to Stefu...invent one.) It is a way of arranging the threads so you can see who responds to who. It's used in the usenet. It's really better than this type of arrangement. Capiche?

	03-07-2001 03:35									#12
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First of all, WTF does eager beaver mean, and how could it be smileyfied? (it sounds dirty, though.)

Now, to branching threads. Branching thread format is a dying dinosaur that never really fitted the Web and is thankfully dying completely thanks to completely superior UBB/vBB format. Amongst many disadvantages of branching thread format are it's ugliness, the way it hinders discussion and the way it forces you to click click click to get all the responses and note they are nothing but spam. UBB/vBB, OTOH, allows one to quickly see all posts that are sent to one thread and reply equally quickly, it looks better and allows much more nifty features that branching threads lack. Almost everyone here thinks that UBB/vBB is better - GP is sole voice of insanity.

	03-07-2001 03:44									#13
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Eager beaver has a dirty connotation but not meaning. The meaning is something along the lines of "Wow...I'm so glad to talk to you about this"...or maybe the attitude of a kid in class who really wants the teacher to call on him.

We had a great collaboration with the skeptic smiley. People use if all the time. See what you can do with this!

	03-07-2001 03:48									#14
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BTW, if it's a match you should have some flames come out for the first stick.

	03-07-2001 03:58									#15
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quote: Originally posted by GP Eager beaver has a dirty connotation but not meaning.

Can just picture an eager beaver now...

But better not say any mroe, young minds peruse this board!!!

	03-07-2001 04:01									#16
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....d

	03-07-2001 04:22									#17
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Damn mistyping !!!! Got to learn to slow down and watch my posts

	03-07-2001 04:28									#18
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No need to say any mroe...

	03-07-2001 04:33									#19
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I am getting better though, you should see some of my original posts or even my chatting in King chat in game.... My damn fingers are too slow to keep up with my thoughts...

	03-07-2001 07:47									#20
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Branching threads are good since you can ignore all the replies to some off-topic comments somebody made. Or alternatively you can ignore all the on-topic replies You also get to notice wether somebody has commented on replies you have made, so flames could be skipped or concentrated upon, dependent on your disposition of the day.

BTW one of the premier boards on the Web, Slashdot, uses a branching thread format.

	03-07-2001 08:10									#21
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HEY!!! UR, RU the one guy who has supported me? *Heart grows fond for UR...*

	03-07-2001 09:12									#22
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i like this current format, i can read all the posts to a thread together in one place, without having to go back and forward to read them all

	03-07-2001 09:27									#23
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quote: Originally posted by GP You don't need to remember the codes anymore. you can just click on the menu to the right. I just figured this out!

Can't get anything by you, can we Navy?

	03-07-2001 09:37									#24
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gee everyoen making fun of you now

	03-07-2001 10:22									#25
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The problem with branching threads is that I tend to reply to more than one post at a time.

	03-07-2001 10:41									#26
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Each format has its own pros and cons.

When I first came to 'Poly I was highly annoyed by the fact the I had to wait for the entire thread to finish loading before I can read anything. I was also annoyed by the fact that I had to read all the impertinent messages together with the ones I wanted to read.

On the newsgroups I could watch the threads in which I am interested, and glance through the headers to see if there's anything that strikes my fancy


GP,

That's yours truly *insert wink smilie here*

	03-07-2001 11:30									#27
	Re: Hey Guys! It's now really easy to use smilies! Support Apolyton buy from Amazon

quote: Originally posted by GP You don't need to remember the codes anymore. you can just click on the menu to the right. I just figured this out! The "skeptical" smiley is one that I asked for!! I still prefer to tease and troll (when I do) without smilies as it robs the remarks of their "edge" too much.

The only "problem" is that it will put the smiley at the end of the post...you can't insert it anywhere in the middle of your post using the menu...

	03-07-2001 11:41									#28
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you have to insert the smilie as you guy then type some more and then insert another smilie if you forget to insert smilie you cna either manuall code it or click the smilie to insert then cut and paste

	03-07-2001 12:21									#29
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It inserts any special symbol at the end of your post. I've been practicing my cutting-and-pasting skills quite a bit.

	03-07-2001 16:10									#30
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I really dislike branching threads. Its very easy for the reply you posted to get lost under another the thread coming from a different reply to the same post, and it is hard to get a proper response.
In a way, we can do this here, with the subject of the post line. If you reply with a quote, it automatically puts a re: The other person's topic. It wouldn't tkae too muh effort to change it to say reply to GP or whatever.