request old-style Smilies

Nyaricus · Jul 3, 2008

Y'know, I just realised that my monitor has been dying for like 6 months and the colour is off, so I'm sure that the smilies would look better using a different monitor. They look like crap for the time being though

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Umbran · Jul 3, 2008

Nifft said:
I'm using new smilies less, because IMHO they do look ... goofy. Or otherwise inappropriate.

Goofy? You're spending time on a website discussing perhaps the nerdiest game of all time, and you're worried about something here being a bit goofy?

Seems to me that a touch of explicit goofiness is useful for us to keep a bit of perspective around here.

hong · Jul 3, 2008

Umbran said:
Goofy? You're spending time on a website discussing perhaps the nerdiest game of all time, and you're worried about something here being a bit goofy?

Seems to me that a touch of explicit goofiness is useful for us to keep a bit of perspective around here.

Nah, it'll never work.

Nifft · Jul 3, 2008

Umbran said:
Goofy? You're spending time on a website discussing perhaps the nerdiest game of all time, and you're worried about something here being a bit goofy?

Seems to me that a touch of explicit goofiness is useful for us to keep a bit of perspective around here.

<-- old one looked unimpressed & resigned; new one looks like it's giving you a dirty look.

:yawn:

<-- looks like laughing, not yawning

:heh:

<-- look like they wish to rape my dog

:angel:

<--

<-- decent, but not the set I used to use

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IMHO the number of "dirty looks" has increased, and if you're worried about smilies setting tone and giving perspective, they aren't an improvement by either of our criteria.

Cheers, -- N

Nifft · Jul 3, 2008

Gah, unmerged double post!

:hmm:

, -- N

CapnZapp · Jul 9, 2008

Michael Morris said:
So they are definitely here to stay.

I'm definitely not asking you to remove your new smileys. I realize there's no debating taste.

However, would it be possible to add a second set of smilies/smileys as an alternative?

Personally, I've found the CivFanatics set to be excellent: they're clean, they aren't bugeyed, there's an incredible range of emoticons, and they are mostly spot on!

I guess you can't see for yourself unless you register and start a post, so allow me an attachement (which unfortunately can't show the fun animations)

Z

PS. Obviously, the graphics would have to be redone for a dark background. It was just an example anyway.

Michael Morris · Jul 9, 2008

CapnZapp said:
I'm definitely not asking you to remove your new smileys. I realize there's no debating taste.

However, would it be possible to add a second set of smilies/smileys as an alternative?

Personally, I've found the CivFanatics set to be excellent: they're clean, they aren't bugeyed, there's an incredible range of emoticons, and they are mostly spot on!

I guess you can't see for yourself unless you register and start a post, so allow me an attachement (which unfortunately can't show the fun animations)

Z

PS. Obviously, the graphics would have to be redone for a dark background. It was just an example anyway.

It would take far more code than is worth it to allow a smiley toggle - at least 5 hour if not more. So no, there will not be an alternate smiley set.

Merkuri · Jul 10, 2008

Michael Morris said:
It would take far more code than is worth it to allow a smiley toggle - at least 5 hour if not more. So no, there will not be an alternate smiley set.

Maybe instead of a smiley toggle you could add back the old smileys as new smiley icons? I'm guessing it's not that hard to just add new smileys to the list. These smileys would be the defaults (I like them!), but if you wanted the old smiley you could use

ldsmile: or

ldwink: or something like that.

Michael Morris · Jul 10, 2008

It took 3 years of begging to get the smiley count to 24. I'm not pushing my luck. Further I want all the smileys to match as one set, which these do.

CapnZapp · Jul 13, 2008

So, the answer is "no". At least thank you for responding.

Furthermore, I guess I should assume by the lack of answers that the question about turning off smilies per default is "no" too?

At least, that's the conclusion I got from the none-too-friendly mod message I got from trying to get my other answer answered by breaking it out from this thread, where it wasn't addressed at all.

I can't do a proper quote, but here it is:

Thread closed. It is inappropriate to create a brand new thread on a subject which is ongoing. There are probably reasons why you've not had any replies on the other thread.

I thought your original forked thread was an accidental post of reply to 'fork' and so deleted it.

Please don't do this kind of thing again, spamming your question won't help you or us.

My reply is:
"I am sorry you believe I am a spammer. I was merely trying to increase the visibility of a question I thought had drowned in the other thread (this thread).

Apparently my unforgivable mistake was trying to ask two questions in one thread, and then splitting the threads. Possibly my other mistake was using the tool I thought appropriate for the job: the new fork button.

I sincerely acted in good faith, but what did I get for that? My thread closed, and myself asked to not spam threads? All in a tone I definitely don't care for...

It is possible "fork" means something special to you, but it sure doesn't to me. If you do not wish the fork tool to be used, perhaps you should explain better for what you do want it to be used.

And by the way, would it have hurt to have added a simple "no, we don't have a way to turn off smilies by default"...? "

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