There should be a laughing smilie!

Maynooth

Instead of all these stupid LOL and LMFAO etc.....there should be a laughing smilie, it makes sense!

grimloch

Generally I would find that suffices for the purpose intended.

whiskeyman

Maynooth wrote:

Instead of all these stupid LOL and LMFAO etc.....there should be a laughing smilie, it makes sense!

that's it really....

Maynooth

whiskeyman wrote:

that's it really....

That's just a big smile on most other message boards.

No one else wants a laughing smilie then? Ah well. I tried little laughing smilies, I tried!

Mr.Nice Guy

Could we have a philosophical smilie? You know, one that's deep in thought. Pensive, if you will...

Maynooth

Mr.Nice Guy wrote:

Could we have a philosophical smilie? You know, one that's deep in thought. Pensive, if you will...

Lets try for the laughing smilie first and see how we get on and go from there

Mr.Nice Guy

Maynooth wrote:

Lets try for the laughing smilie first and see how we get on and go from there

/:I

Rhyme

Neko smily?

Pepe LeFrits

Laughing smiley?

Slippery slope...

Rhyme

kaids wrote:

Ye Gods

What be that?!?

Pepe LeFrits

The world's most expressive smiley!

Mimikyu

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Pepe LeFrits

You must have one scary looking laugh

Mimikyu

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Pepe LeFrits

Don't be stupid. It's nothing to do with looking life-like. How exactly does a closed mouth with a tongue sticking out look like laughing to you?

TerrorFirmer

|:o

Its a pretty dumb topic.

Gross Halfwit

http://rzboard.com/v-web/bulletin/bb/images/smiles/icon_lol.gif

There you go.

steveland?

Gross Halfwit wrote:

http://rzboard.com/v-web/bulletin/bb/images/smiles/icon_lol.gif

There you go.

animated = bad...

I'd like the roll eyes smiley to look less happy... I like to use it in more malicious ways

WizZard

Animated smilies make baby Jesus cry.

Bring back :ninja: @B^)

Here is a wiki link to the current smilies.

steveland?

WizZard

steveland? wrote:

Oh it's there as an image. but it's not as handy. </lazy>

Flukey

We could use this one for the smiley.

This one would be useful too, a bit like the sarcasm one, but without the smile.


These are all good too.

oscarBravo

tbh.

Tar.Aldarion

grimloch wrote:

Generally I would find that suffices for the purpose intended.

That is basically it.I daresay we don't need any more.Even if more were implemented it would cause more abuse and calls for it to be gotton rid of.

Flukey

You need more variety than the range we have available to us. Other discussions board systems that I use, where I got the above ones from, have a much bigger range of ones. The ones we have here don't always allow you to express what you want to. A random selection here of some from other systems include some that would be great here.

Flukey

I was even trying to post more in the above post and it wouldn't let me post that many. So here are a few more of the ones I wanted to put into that post:

Flukey

Some more:

Flukey

As I said I wanted to put all of the above few posts into one and it wouldn't let me. There are a lot of features here that would be good in other board systems, like getting a preview of a post's content when you put the cursor over the title link, but graphics seem to be a weakness here.

steveland?

Who in the name of Jaysis would need any of those smileys...

Rhyme

I wouldnt mind the polite/sarcastic clapping one posted by Flukey

Nevyn

There is a reason that boards.ie is not loaded with graphics.
The are horrid to look at, hard on the eyes and distract from
the text which has the content and message and dicussion.
all the rest in clutter.

There is also the fact of perseving the bandwidth and remembering
that not everyone reading boards.ie has broadband at home or is
in school or college. Some people are still on dial up.

These are the same reasons there are restrictions on
sig sizes and having animated sigs.

RuggieBear

Thaed wrote:

These are the same reasons there are restrictions on
sig sizes and having animated sigs.

You do realise that your sig is breaking the rules at the moment

I do realise it's advertising a boards event...so imo, as with the Santa strike force, i dont reckon the normal sig rules apply.

Oh and it's annoying McClane which is a good thing too

EDIT: actually, those smilies took ages on my 56k dialup...

Beruthiel

down with this sort of crap

try using words to get your point across people,
only a teenager needs that amount of smileys

Gordon

Oh come on, there's always a need for a dancing carrot smiley.



wooo, look at 'im dance. And, he's a carrot.

CuLT

steveland? wrote:

Egads, I didn't know that was in my member space.

That's what happens when you don't delete anything... EVER.

Here's a random picture in there from 2002:


Name the oldskoolers?

Also, here's a newspaper article from around the same time about the "new" all night gaming "craze" in Internet cafés
http://members.boards.ie/cult/Article.jpg


[Edit] and considering the current hype about the Queer Beers & Paintball, here's an old ad made for - possibly - a GLB Paintball event... though possibly the GLB reference was just for effect at the time...

[/Edit]

Shabadu

Me \/




/\ Flukey


All I really want is a smiley in Cloud skin that looks sad rather than cross.



A plethora of animated smilies would be more than a tad irritating. If there is one you really love, bookmark it. Several people use Señor perv frequently.

Nevyn

wonderfulll

Flukey

A little smiley doesn't take much space. Whatever bandwith people are using to look at Boards is the same as they use to look anywhere else. If we are using smileys, it is usually only one or two, if any at all. My posts were just demonstrating what is available. Whether people want to use them or not, is up to them, but we should at least have the option. Lighten up.

Flukey

They can also be used very cleverly like this, which I did on another board, encouraging someone to go to a match. It is just a snapshot, so it loses some of the effect of the moving ones, but you get the idea:

CuLT

Yeah, I get emails like that in work all the time, non stop stream of smilies.

USE YOUR WORDS.

Boards.ie may well end up being one of the last online havens where people speak English instead of a combination of pictures and textspeak.

Goodshape

Flukey wrote:

They can also be used very cleverly like this, which I did on another board, encouraging someone to go to a match. It is just a snapshot, so it loses some of the effect of the moving ones, but you get the idea:

I seriously doubt I would ever take the time out to decipher such a message.

Gordon

Wow, I love the blue post with all the smileys, can't wait for boards to be like that.
WOOHOO!!

Here ye go Shabblydabbly:

Sarky

Gordon wrote:

Here ye go Shabblydabbly:

Success! Gordon, I love you, and want to have your babies.

Gordon

Score! I'll send the nippers in the post.

Sarky

\o/




I can't wait to eat those babies...

Shabadu

Poor babies...


It works! *happy dance*

Flukey

We should be able to put graphics and pictures into After Hours, like we can in most of the other forums.

Crash

Anchorman wrote:

I'm Brick Tamland. People seem to like me because I am polite and I am rarely late. I like to eat ice cream and I really enjoy a nice pair of slacks. Years later, a doctor will tell me that I have an I.Q. of 48 and am what some people call mentally retarded.

...you dont report the weather by any chance do you?

Giblet

Pay 10 euro to add one to the board.ie database. I'm an idea machine.