Smilies Poll

[FZ1inNH]

How many of you click on the Smilies to add them and how many know how to type them into the message by hand?

 

[4fun]

Point and click for me:thumbup:

Too much to remember and thinking too much hurts

 

[ant_mb]

I do know this one though

 

[MarinaFazer]

I'm a code dork...since I don't do it anymore, I pretend with smilies! jk But I do enjoy remembering what they are!

 

[jsteinb95]

Well....it depends....if I see it to the right, I will click, but I still type the easy ones like; Majority of the time, I type them....hello, I added half of these and named 'em!!!

 

[Stumbles06]

Point an click for me too, I spend a lot of time on another forum that has no smilies/avatars/sigs.. etc, so don't really know any of the formats...lol

But, same as ant_mb... I always end my post with one of ...

 

[sideshow_downs]

Most of the time i point and click i do know thes though
:welcome:
:needpics:

 

[FZ1inNH]

I don't know them all, by a long shot, but I know the ones I like to use most.

:steve:


:iconbeer:

 

[jsteinb95]

ya know....I have never used :iconbeer: until right now!

 

[FZ1inNH]

Can you find a animated skull and crossbones J?

 

[jsteinb95]

Can you find a animated skull and crossbones J?

ooohhhh....that would be cool! I'll look. :cheer:

 

[gforce2002]

I try to never use them, actually. I find the animated ones especially make posts harder to read. I'm an administrator on a TV related web site and we don't even allow them (or signatures for that matter). If you have to read every post in every thread to moderate, those get pretty hard on the eyes really fast! I don't find they're really overused here, though. I've seen some other sites where people put twenty smilies at the close of their post and then have a signature that takes up 1/2 the screen. And then they double post!

 

[Avalon786]

I point and click for the most part. Theres always the easy ones i know by now: ...

 

[boo68]

I do both. but my favorite is :steve: and if it is shown I just click.. since it is there.

 

[Doorag]

I chose point-n-click but I do both depending on what ones I want to use.

 

[mdr]

I try to never use them, actually. I find the animated ones especially make posts harder to read. I'm an administrator on a TV related web site and we don't even allow them (or signatures for that matter). If you have to read every post in every thread to moderate, those get pretty hard on the eyes really fast! I don't find they're really overused here, though. I've seen some other sites where people put twenty smilies at the close of their post and then have a signature that takes up 1/2 the screen. And then they double post!

If I had to read every post I'd just write a Python program to remove the smiley from the post first. Should take about 50 lines of code. I used to administer an email site with about a hundred thousand users so writing short stuff like that was common. You find ways to cheat after a while

I like the added expressiveness of the smiley family. Pure text is a poor medium of communication - so thanks to the admins for accomodating us. :thumbup:

 

[aussiejules]

Point and click, i wouldnt know how to do one.

 

[Little Red]

I don't use them.
At all.

 

[DefyInertia]

A little of (a) and a little of (b). How come this site requires : before and after the smiley name? The second : adds ~0.0000345 seconds to each of my posts!!!


:justkidding:

I don't use them.
At all.

You should consider it. It's often hard to decipher tone/attitude when only provided with plain text. Something tells me people might take you the wrong way Smilies could help avoid this.

 

[oldfast007]

I don't use them.
At all.:spank::thumbup::rockon:

Here, I'll do it for ya...