Smileys, for comments and profiles Options

[lkajsfklajskds]

Sometimes i wish i had the shrug smiley for when i comment someone. but..course, there are no smileys. but wouldnt that be soo great?! i think so =]
i was also thinking of more smileys for aim, but course cB doesnt have any control over that.

//edit:
sort of out of topic, but whats with the ">.<" being cut off in comments? itll come out as ">."

[weed]

This is really an awesome idea because sometimes i really feel the need to express myself via smiley's when i comment someone.

& i'm sorry aims smiley's suck.

Your a genius.

[lkajsfklajskds]

^i am a genius

[superstitious]

Well I'm glad you two are so enthusiastic about this. XD

I think that smilies in profile comments create a potential mess. I know one of the things I hate most about MySpace is all those glitter graphics and even though smilies are much smaller in scale, I still like seeing plain text in profile comments here.

Trish or Toya might be able to give feedback from a more technical angle, but I wanted to at least give an opinion on the idea itself.

[lkajsfklajskds]

^well, im not saying we should allow people to put coding on it that comes up as "THX 4 tHE ADD! <3". imo, smileys do not create a mess. i mean our forums are pretty clean, no?

[superstitious]

^Yes, I think that the forums are clean. =)

It's really a matter of opinion. My opinion is that profile comments look better with just text.

[brooklyneast05]

This is really an awesome idea because sometimes i really feel the need to express myself via smiley's when i comment someone.

lol.

[austinoutloud]

This is really an awesome idea because sometimes i really feel the need to express myself via smiley's when i comment someone.

& i'm sorry aims smiley's suck.

Your a genius.

Wow, I can't tell if that was a sarcastic post or not.

I can see how smilies could ruin the whole clean and simple non-myspace look of CB's profiles, but I think mostly everyone here would have enough sense to not overuse them.

Ahaha..669th post.

[weed]

Wow, I can't tell if that was a sarcastic post or not

No. I wasn't being sarcastic.

[freeflow]

Well I'm glad you two are so enthusiastic about this. XD

I think that smilies in profile comments create a potential mess. I know one of the things I hate most about MySpace is all those glitter graphics and even though smilies are much smaller in scale, I still like seeing plain text in profile comments here.

Trish or Toya might be able to give feedback from a more technical angle, but I wanted to at least give an opinion on the idea itself.

I agree 100%. Smilies on profiles could get extremely annoying especially since anyone can comment you. I think the simplicity of cB profiles is what I like about them.


And there are a lot of people on profiles that do not have common sense to know not to overuse smilies.

[austinoutloud]

Would it be at all possible to have a "disable smilies" option?

[weed]

Would it be at all possible to have a "disable smilies" option?

I guess that would be a a good compromise.

[superstitious]

OR (and this is just a thought) we can use our creative minds to convey what we're chatting about by using actual words. ;)

[freeflow]

Jusun is the only one that can say anything about that. To me it's just like why go through all the trouble, when you can smiley your heart out through PMs and on the forums.

[weed]

^ because some of us want to comment with smiley's ?

[superstitious]

Haha, to each their own. XD

Well, Jusun (micron) is the only one who can enable that, if it's even a possiblity. So hopefully sometime in the near future he will see this thread and shed some light.

[tokyo-rose]

You can always just type the smiley code and let the person you're commenting imagine the image there. xD

[lkajsfklajskds]

^ haha, genius!
but not as fun =[

[weed]

as fun as imagining is its much more fun to actually (in my opinion) see the smiley and imagine the person making that face.

[lkajsfklajskds]

^
and another flaw in just inputing the code, is that they may not know how the smiley looks like..

[freeflow]

But they do know what .. :) (happy) :( (sad) :l (mellow) , and many more, look like and I'm pretty sure if you use those they will be able to tell. Because technically those are smilies you know.

[lkajsfklajskds]

^how about

[freeflow]

" *shrug* " may not be smiley text but as long as they can read, they'll get the point.

[superstitious]

Basic Smileys

:-) Your basic smiley. This smiley is used to inflect a sarcastic or joking statement since we can't hear voice inflection over e-mail.

;-) Winky smiley. User just made a flirtatious and/or sarcastic remark. More of a "don't hit me for what I just said" smiley.

:-( Frowning smiley. User did not like that last statement or is upset or depressed about something.

:-I Indifferent smiley. Better than a :-( but not quite as good as a :-).

:-> User just made a really biting sarcastic remark. Worse than a ;-).

>:-> User just made a really devilish remark.

>;-> Winky and devil combined. A very lewd remark was just made.

Widely used Smileys

(-: User is left handed.

%-) User has been staring at a green screen for 15 hours straight.

:*) User is drunk.

[:] User is a robot.

8-) User is wearing sunglasses.

B:-) Sunglasses on head.

::-) User wears normal glasses.

B-) User wears horn-rimmed glasses.

8:-) User is a little girl.

:-)-8 User is a Big girl.

:-{) User has a mustache.

:-{ 2 User wears lipstick.

{:-) User wears a toupee.

}:-( Toupee in an updraft.

:-[ User is a vampire.

:-E Bucktoothed vampire.

:-F Bucktoothed vampire with one tooth missing.

:-7 User juust made a wry statement.

:-* User just ate something sour.

:-)~ User drools.

:-~) User has a cold.

:'-( User is crying.

:'-) User is so happy, s/he is crying.

:-@ User is screaming.

:-# User wears braces.

:^) User has a broken nose.

:v) User has a broken nose, but it's the other way.

:_) User's nose is sliding off of his face.

:<) User is from an Ivy League School.

:-& User is tongue tied.

=:-) User is a hosehead.

-:-) User is a punk rocker.

-:-( Real punk rockers don't smile.

:=) User has two noses.

+-:-) User is the Pope or holds some other religious office.

`:-) User shaved one of his eyebrows off this morning.

,:-) Same thing...other side.

|-I User is asleep.

|-O User is yawning/snoring.

:-Q User is a smoker.

:-? User smokes a pipe.

O-) Megaton Man On Patrol! (or else, user is a scuba diver)

O :-) User is an angel (at heart, at least).

:-` User spitting out its chewing tobacco.

:-S User just made an incoherent statement.

:-D User is laughing (at you!)

:-X User's lips are sealed.

:-C User is really bummed.

<|-) User is Chinese.

<|-( User is Chinese and doesn't like these kind of jokes.

:-/ User is skeptical.

C=:-) User is a chef.

@= User is pro-nuclear war.

*<:-) User is wearing a Santa Claus Hat.

:-o Uh oh! \

(8-o It's Mr. Bill!

*:o) And Bozo the Clown!

3:] Pet smiley.

3:[ Mean Pet smiley.

d8= Your pet beaver is wearing goggles and a hard hat.

E-:-) User is a Ham radio operator.

:-9 User is licking his/her lips.

%-6 User is braindead.

[:-) User is wearing a walkman.

(:I User is an egghead.

<:-I User is a dunce.

K:P User is a little kid with a propeller beenie.

@:-) User is wearing a turban.

:-0 No Yelling! (Quiet Lab)

:-: Mutant smiley; the invisible smiley.

.-) User only has one eye.

,-) Ditto...but he's winking.

X-( User just died.

8 :-) User is a wizard.

-=* :-) User is a TeX wizard.

Midget Smileys

:) Midget smiley.

:] Gleep...a friendly midget smiley who will gladly be your friend.

=) Variation on a theme...

:} What should we call these? (what?)

:) Happy.

:> What?

:@ What?

:D Laughter.

:I Hmmm...

:( Sad.

:[ Real Downer.

:< What?

:{ What?

:O Yelling.

:C What?

:Q What?

:,( Crying.

[] Hugs and ...

:* Kisses.

|I Asleep.

^o Snoring.

Mega Smileys

C= 2>;*{)) A drunk, devilish chef with a toupee in an updraft, a mustache, and a double chin.

}:^#}) Updrafted bushy-mustached pointy nosed smiley with a double-chin.

Usenet Smileys

~~:-( Net.flame

O |-) Net.religion

8 :-I Net.unix-wizards

X-( Net.suicide

E-:-I Net.ham-radio

Emotional Smileys

:-) ha ha

|-) hee hee

|-D ho ho

:-> hey hey

:-( boo hoo

:-I hmmm

:-O oops

:-P nyahhhh!

Courtesy of Internet Smileys.... ^_^

It's a long post, I know. Think of it as a smiley guide!

[lkajsfklajskds]

^ 0.0 wow, you really took the time.

oh, nvm, its from a link. lol, didnt see that

anyway, i know that these can be typed. its just...yellow faces just seem to show more emotion.

[*yrrnotelekktric*]

hm, i like profiles with plain text. smileys are an OK idea, but it would just make cb profiles more chaotic than they should be, imo.

[LoveToMySilas]

Yeah, I find myself typing ":smile" on myspace or on AIM. I remember their being a set of cB smiles for xanga. Is there anyway we can convert them to myspace and such?