Um, Lenny, how do you have a 10 x 10 circle? ......

1o pixels wide, 10 pixels high. It's the width and height across the widest and heighest points.

I'll have to take Lenny's side on this one...

Well, rather than just ban everyone who uses emoticons in the chatbox, wouldn't it be easier not to have them in the first place?

Yeah and I have emoticons turned off on AIM

So why don't we just make the same setting. An option to turn them off.

He does pose a good idea..o_O

You're twisting my words, WW.

You may note that I replied with:

to

Note the fugly emoticon spam in your post, and then read my reply again.

As they say - just because Ben is a cat, doesn't mean all cats are called Ben.

The use of emoticons is not the bannable offence, but rather how they are used.

An emoticon used to add effect to a sentence, such as:

"lol, that made me laugh http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y97...out-tongue.png"

Is somewhat different to emoticons used to spam, such as your example, don't you think?

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Asamin makes a good point. If people don't want to see them, then they should be given an option to disable them. The vote is too close to not merit the option for the minority who don't want the emoticons.

Unfortunately, most of them are not pleasent for those who disable them:

:killgrin: :haha: :grin: :cry: :mad: :eek: :weird: :rolleyes: :nerd: :cool: :confused:

I must say i agree with asamin here.

Offensive! 馬鹿！ I won't "spam" cheese in English anymore, now, I will do it the best way...Japanese! 僕輪大好き乾酪！ Also, my waves aren't stupid!

‘-・‐’\_＿/'''‘-.._.:.::WAVE::.:._..-’'''\＿_/‘‐・-’

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Now for my personal opinion on this. I don't think we should have these emoticons. Not to mention, in the end, WW has the final decision on what does and doesn't happen.

Technically, Chruser could fire me and hire Mantra.

What!? Mantra knows how to do this stuff or is that supposed to be taken as a joke. I am personally taking it as a joke.

Mantra is one of the more knowledgable guys around I thought.

Maybe he is. I don't know, sense most of his posts are nonsense.

Oh, he is. Very good at coding. He was making a hack for the forum at one point... don't know what happened with it, though.

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What about the alternatives that chat programs use? For example, in MSN they might be:

:) --> http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y97...miley-face.png = smile
;) --> http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y97.../wink-face.png = wink
>) --> http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y97.../kill-grin.png = killgrin
:D --> http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y97...-face-grin.png = big grin
:( --> http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y97...2/sad-face.png = sad
:@ --> http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y97...angry-face.png = angry
:o --> http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y97...2/eek-face.png = shocked
:|--> http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y97...2/buh-face.png = weird
:p --> http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y97...out-tongue.png = amused
8) --> http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y97...leyes-face.png = rolleyes

None of :rolleyes: things that the forum uses, but rather two character things that won't look strange in text.

:haha:, :cry:, :nerd:, :cool:, and :confused: were just chosen because they are in colons, yes? You didn't even bother to look at the smilies I've suggested.

The question was about emoticons in general, not neccesarily your emoticons.

Have you considered the fact that the chatbox is real time? You don't get the opportunity to correct such blunders as:

East side HS (Class of 199http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y97...leyes-face.png
here's the biggest problem in the worldhttp://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y97...2/eek-face.pngppression of the weak
Things I seehttp://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y97...2/sad-face.pngin no particular order)
Directionhttp://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y97...-face-grin.pngown

and so forth.

I considered it, that's the reason why I'm against it. I might design a wave that has one of those shapes in it, and bam, it is destroyed, no more fun wave.

Awww. Diddums. What shall we do without your waves?

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The last three would be avoided - I've not seen anyone who puts brackets after a colon, and a majority of people put spaces after colons. Plus there's the fact that the :o, :( and :D are more or less universal for those three emoticons (those three are used within the forum for the same emoticons - if they weren't, then alright, maybe you'd have had a point... but come on). You'd expect people to know that.

The only problem I see is your first example - 8), as I can see people using it. In which case, use a hyphen for a nose: 8-).

:o is embarassed, not shocked, on vB forums by default.