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[RSL]

Originally Posted by Shauna

Yeah. In one person's usernotes, I click on a page and my PC dies.

But, the smilies are great!

...

If you ever see something that makes your PC crash, PM me with the name of the persons usernotes. We don't allow that, and I will delete it and possibly usernote ban the person who did it.

[The Devourer Of Worlds]

Originally Posted by Genius Lynx

I propose we do away with smilies entirely.

I would support that.

[Hawkeye]

If my browser doesn't crash (no pun intended) then I consider myself lucky.

[Leeza]

Originally Posted by The Devourer Of Worlds

On a related note, why do people feel the need to add "" to the end of every frigging post they make? Man that's annoying.

That would be me and there is a reason why that emoticon is there. It, as well as , , , etc. are all used to denote what the member is feeling at the time of their post. This is an MB and as such it is all text and text has no way of letting who's reading it know anything about the writer. This guy ()does.

It is also very easy to read text the wrong way or give a sentence many different meanings if a smilie is not used. For example:

I had to go to the store again.
The shows you that I'm really happy that I had to go to the store again.

I had to go to to the store again.
The shows you that I wasn't very happy about having to go to the store again.

I had to go to to the store again.
The shows you that I was very upset that I had to go to the store again.

I had to go to to the store again.
That really doesn't tell you much other than the fact that I had to go to the store again.

So, whether you find to be annoying or not, I will still continue to use it because it is what I'm feeling at the time. I will also always use just because I like to see it.

[Maxico]

Yeah, I'm going to have to side with getting rid of smilies all together.

Or at least introduce ':iamchoosingnottousesmiliesasifeelthati tindirectlycheapenstheenglishlanguage:'.

[Old Manus]

Don't worry, Maxico. Even though you do your part not to cheapen the English language, I will double my cheaping amount to even things out.

You don't have to thank me.

[Levian]

[Boosk]

I always put a at the end because I think it look cute and meh to people who are too grumpy to like it!!
But too many smilys make me have a brain bleed...

Kagga