Nix the smileys

BaBill212

The smileys don't bother me........ if you like adding them, have at it. If you don't like viewing them, don't view.

[To me] it's that simple.

 

Your point is well taken about using them, which we can all decide to do or not do, but I think the original question is whether the forum has functionality, such as a profile setting, that would allow each user decide to switch them on or off as a default.  Other forums are built with software and pages that offer that kind of functionality.

For the record, I use them sometimes, and seeing emoticons in forum posts doesn't bother me.  It does bother me to see them in business communications.  It tells me that the people I'm dealing with are dingbats, the kind of people who call a support line to say that the cup holder on their PC is broken.

Best regards,

Brad

Gentlemen:

After having read through this topic's four+ pages, and having read all the replies from the "Manni-acs" (roughly equal to "Trekies", although Trekies are far less disturbing), and taken the time to actually post in this thread,  I've come to the conclusion that there're now eight minutes of my life gone that I'll never get back...

Thanks for dropping in, Hammer!!!  You earn a "Cat-Head" for that astute and entertaining snippet...Looking forward to wasting more of your time in the future... 

Oh, I almost forgot:

My eyes see this...

minimortar

Is there a way to shut off all those smiley faces etc or at least block out the (ab)users? Really getting annoying to try and read through what could otherwise be an interesting topic.

My brains reads this...

Is there a way to shut off all those 229 references or at least block out the (ab)users? Really getting annoying to try and read through what could otherwise be an interesting forum.

Do we need to get the opinion of a veterinarian to know that horse is dead.

Dude, It's been dead and buried. Thanks for the resurrection.

LOL

Chuckle at the thing crawling out of the grave...

The horse is not dead... it is an undead zombie horse

wing_nut

My eyes see this...

 

minimortar:

 

Is there a way to shut off all those smiley faces etc or at least block out the (ab)users? Really getting annoying to try and read through what could otherwise be an interesting topic.

 

 

My brains reads this...

Is there a way to shut off all those 229 references or at least block out the (ab)users? Really getting annoying to try and read through what could otherwise be an interesting forum.

Do we need to get the opinion of a veterinarian to know that horse is dead.

 

...'e says e's not dead yet...

I thought the 229 infestation (of which I am indeed a part of ) had mostly confined itself to "the thread", as well as an actual GB thread?

VanceCrozier

wing_nut:

My eyes see this...

 

minimortar:

 

Is there a way to shut off all those smiley faces etc or at least block out the (ab)users? Really getting annoying to try and read through what could otherwise be an interesting topic.

 

 

My brains reads this...

Is there a way to shut off all those 229 references or at least block out the (ab)users? Really getting annoying to try and read through what could otherwise be an interesting forum.

Do we need to get the opinion of a veterinarian to know that horse is dead.

 

 

...'e says e's not dead yet...

I thought the 229 infestation (of which I am indeed a part of ) had mostly confined itself to "the thread", as well as an actual GB thread?

HAHA I guess not which is absoluttly amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  HEHEHEHE!!!!!

VanceCrozier

wing_nut:

My eyes see this...

 

minimortar:

 

Is there a way to shut off all those smiley faces etc or at least block out the (ab)users? Really getting annoying to try and read through what could otherwise be an interesting topic.

 

 

My brains reads this...

Is there a way to shut off all those 229 references or at least block out the (ab)users? Really getting annoying to try and read through what could otherwise be an interesting forum.

Do we need to get the opinion of a veterinarian to know that horse is dead.

 

 

...'e says e's not dead yet...

I thought the 229 infestation (of which I am indeed a part of ) had mostly confined itself to "the thread", as well as an actual GB thread?

HAHA I guess not which is absoluttly amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  HEHEHEHE!!!!!

oopps double post sorry.  Not sure how that happened.

While we're getting rid of the post counts let's go ahead and nix the smileys as well...kill two birds with one stone...

I'm only posting here to raise my post count.

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I like the smileys.......

Anyone have a smiley of someone increasing their post count?

"Never in the annals of Forum history have so many smileys been placed by so few people with so little to smile about..."

---Von Manstein

BAM! Add another post to my ever-increasing total...if it goes much higher my head just might explode...

Medicman71

I'm only posting here to raise my post count.

Now that's disgraceful

(sorry, i haven't been able to post all week and I'm lagging behind)

Bish

Medicman71:

I'm only posting here to raise my post count.

 

Now that's disgraceful

(sorry, i haven't been able to post all week and I'm lagging behind)

Now why is that disgraceful?

Smiley increasing his/my post count:

Another smiley post for me:

I'm busing them in!

I can't stop!!!

Not a smiley but funny:

Chazzer

I can't stop!!!

Not a smiley but funny:

Hey, Chazz!

Hope all is going well withyou and your's.

MIKE, WHERE HAVE YA BEEN? WE MISSED YA!!! Its good to see ya back at the forums. I know you said your pretty booked up in the summer. Hows it goin? With you back and Andy and myself, The three Amigos are back!!!!

I hope your well.

Scott

Keep them. They are the only thing to convey an emotion. Sometimes words don't tell the story.

Medicman71

Bish:

Medicman71:

I'm only posting here to raise my post count.

 

Now that's disgraceful

(sorry, i haven't been able to post all week and I'm lagging behind)

 

Now why is that disgraceful?

And just to prove tigers point, my first post here was meant to be a touch of light hearted humour, but because i didn't include a smiley, it can easily be taken the wrong way.

I do agree with the original post in that sometimes they can be over used. But when i see a post loaded with the. i just skip past it. So i say keep them.