Gonna start a revolution from my smile

[Lt Major Burns]

i hate smileys. they're pictures for idiots. the basic set of 8(?) are fine, but more advanced ones just piss me off.

 

[fryke]

<(^v^)>

 

[nixgeek]

OK, that's either a birdie or.......maybe I'll stop letting my imagination run away with me. (see? no pic! DoH!)

 

[Mikuro]

I actually prefer to mark gestures/expressions with asterisks. Like *shrug*, or *rolls eyes* (although I realize the grammatical inconsistency in those examples). Especially since the "roll eyes" smiley doesn't look very clear. The point of smilies is to make your intention more clear, not less. <- What does that mean?

 

[g/re/p]

#:(

bad hair day

 

[CaptainQuark]

I've always thought that a well-placed smiley can convey a great deal.

 

[CaptainQuark]

Am I annoying anyone yet?

 

[fryke]

yes.

 

[sgould]

I feel the same way driving my computer as I do driving my car!!

 

[Lt Major Burns]

i bloody hate crap smileys.

thse are, without a doubt, the worst:

 

[Qion]

I think that screen resolutions and graphics capabilities are advanced enough to handle actual pictures of human faces, no? Just someone find some stereotypical-looking facials of moods and maybe even animate some of them. That would be cool... it would go nicely with the whole "talking Mac" aura.

Like... whoever this guy is.

 

[easterhay]

i bloody hate crap smileys.

thse are, without a doubt, the worst:

Indeed. In the unlikely event that anyone can find more hideous examples, I promise never to smile again.

Though it clearly takes a quite extraordinary talent to transform the human smile into something so naff. It's the facial equivalent of a turd falling into my drink.

 

[easterhay]

EDIT: think my message killed the thread, so I've bumped off the message

 

[easterhay]

Here's hoping smilies go the way of this thread. And the dodo.

I don't wanna link directly to it because I don't know what their policy is, but the forum for the band Lemon Jelly Googled here is really stylish, has not a graphic smiley in sight, and everyone seems to understand each other perfectly.

Whereas the Limewire forum, a temple to smilies and wildly formatted text, seems to be a hotbed of acrimony.

Anyway...there must be a million more important things for me to lobby against than innocent, friendly, well-meaning, irritating kitsch.

 

[Lt Major Burns]

i'm going to continue to champion these

 

[easterhay]

Bang on! They're certainly better than anything I've come up with