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Ok, I think we should clean up the list of smilies. Ok, everyone, which smilies do you think we should get rid of, immediately? I know that most of the smilies are never used at any point, so I figure, might as well get rid of it. I want the list of smilies to be at least 50.
So any smilies you like us to get rid of? List them here, and we'll remove them, or something.
:alien: :strut: :freak: :yap: :chef: :foot: :scary:
Yeah, those are some of the ones that I've never seen people use or they look stupid and serve no purpose.
Oh, and there are a lot of repeat smilies that look similar and serve the same purpose. Examples:
:cry: :crying: :crying2:
:rolleyes: :rolleyes2:
:riiight: :sweatdrop: :sweat:
:-/ :-\ :|
And so forth! There are a lot more repeats, but i'm getting tired of doin all of this, especially since Austin Powers in on TV.
:fd: :edm: :ctwalk: :magus: :carlie: :crono: :hawkeye: :chobin: :jap: :save: :yuck: :strung: :megaman:
I don't know what are some of these are for, so yeah, kill'em all. :)
Useless:
:alien: :ctwalk: :magus: :fd: :chobin: :carlie: :crono: :hawkeye: :edm: :chef: :megaman: :moggie: :strut: :aim$: :aim~:
Ugly:
:scary: :foot: :joker: :freak: :Oo:
Come on:
:banbleys :bleys
Repeat emotions (this is without taking Halan's list into consideration):
:mad2: :grr:
:cry: :sad: :aimsad:
:cool: :aimsun:
:rolleyes2 :rolleyes:
:D :aimhappy:
;) :aimwink:
:) :aimsmile:
:( :conf:
:blush: :aimblush:
:-/ :-\ :|
:angel: :aimangel:
:bgl: :lol:
And I find this smilie to br just horrible. Seriously. : :smoking:
Can we PLEASE ban every single animated smiley? Anything that moves should be killed.
chop, strut, beer, roll, joey, trout, and that machine gun one are my top priorities for removal.
Why's that, Spuuky?
Yeah, there seems to be a heck of a lot of grinning smilies too. Like:
:D :love: :bgl: :greenking :thumb: :biggrin: :upsidedow :giddy: and etc.
not :love: I like that. :(
I think it would be easier if people posted the ones people WANT to keep. :( This is pathetic.
:grr: :greenie: :tongue: :whoa: :alien: :weirdo: :scary: :rolleyes: :ctwalk: :magus: :fd: :strung: :roll: :boohoo: :chobin: :crono: :hawkeye: :biggrin: (:biggrin: is a repeat of :D ):bgl: :foot: :chef: :upsidedow :hat: :joker: :yellowkin :evilking: :megaman: :shoot: :moggie: :skull: :sad: :shame: :jap: :surprised :yap: :freak: :strut: :crying: :blush: :crying2: :erm: :frust: :giddy: :goofy: :grumble: :kiss: :lol: :riiight: :rock: :save: :shifty: :smash: :sweatdrop :sweat: :chop: :rabite: :bleys :hot: :chuckle: :conf: :-/ :aimgrin: (:aimgrin: is a repeat of :aimhappy: )
... yeah. A lot of those are either repeats of older smilies, or don't emote anything.
Also, I think that we should either keep just the original :), :(, etc. smilies, or just their AIM counterparts. We don't really need two sets, do we?
No Proto, I was just saying how many grin smilies there were, I don't think all of them should be gotten rid of, just some of them.
Agreed. Here's a list of ones that we have to keep.Quote:
Originally posted by Dr Unne
I think it would be easier if people posted the ones people WANT to keep. :( This is pathetic.
:) :( :D :o ;) :p :rolleyes2 :cool: :mad2: :eek: :cry: :love: :eep: :yuck: :riiight: :exdee:
Here, I'll post every smiley I think we should keep:
The ultimate would be for people to be able to choose a custom smilie set to use when the post, like for LiveJournal... That would be so cool. Of course, that's impractical.
I personally thing that my smilie revision list is the one you should go by though. I mean, really. I have excellent taste.
Same list as above but add the moogle :mog: :DQuote:
Originally posted by Alpha
Agreed. Here's a list of ones that we have to keep.
:) :( :D :o ;) :p :rolleyes2 :cool: :mad2: :eek: :cry: :love: :eep: :yuck: :riiight: :exdee:
It shouldn't be difficult - one smiley per emotion. You can get rid of all the character smileys, as they do nothing but increase load times. Being angry is being angry, and there aren't a million ways to do it, so there's no need for a million angry smilies. Take a single happy smiley, a single sad smiley, a single angry smiley, a single suprised smiley, etc. I'll show the ones I think actually serve a purpose.
:) :( :o ;) :mad2: :eek: :love: :eep: :confused:
The rest are just for fun or are redundant. Adding extra smilies just for fun is fine if you have the space. There's not much need for several of the same thing though, with only a color swap.
The only smilie that matters to me is this one: :) I don't need any others.
Well, maybe just this other one: ;)
Why is it necessary to remove smileys? They take almost no db space at all; The images are stored on the server, not in the db.
I'd like to empty the ATTACHMENTS table, now, but smileys don't hurt anything. Personally, I would hesitate to remove a smiley if even one person wanted it.
It's necessary to remove them because some of them are useless, therefore annoying; some of them are ugly, therefore annoying; and some of them are annoying.
Don't you dare take away my chef one, even though I dont use it. Please?
:| :aimmeh: :-/ :-\
Heh. That amuses me. How would you like your =/ smilie?
While I don't think it's necessary to remove smilies, I think that there should be a rule against asking for new smilies.
Most of the recent additions are pointless, and get used twice, then forgotten about. (Think :Bleys: )
One thing I think we could do, however, is take some of the pointless smilies from the selection box, and replace them with useful ones. This provides people with easy access to :-\, and sanctuary from :cool:.
If the beer goes, so do I. ;)
I'll follow Unne's advice and post the ones I like.
:mad: :eep: :) ;) :o :D :rolleyes2 :confused: :laugh: :beer: :crying: :crying2: :rock: :laughing: :giddy: :sweatdrop :shifty: :sweat:
I'm not saying we should get rid of everything else though. Those are just my favorites. I wonder what the point of deleting a bunch of them is though.
I also fail to see the point in deleting them. Also, none of your lists agree. I don't know how we're supposed to decide. Some people say we should get rid of the machine gun one, but people use it all the time. People suggest we get rid of :)? That's just about the only smilie I use! The smilies are about 1k each. It doesn't affect load times at all.
The one thing I can see serving a purpose is getting rid of duplicate smilies. Smilies that are almost identical that is. And maybe some of the more strange ones like Bleys' head with a banned sign. If you can all agree on something else then let me know.
EDIT: The other thing I can see working is to replace all smilies with some kind of "theme" of similar smilies. But who knows. Just an idea.
If the smilies are causing that much of a problem, just delete ALL of them and go back to the ones vBulletin provided for you.
Then you can go back to the process of cluttering it up again with all those weird smilies... see how it goes? How did these smilies get added in the first place, anyway?
Yeah, the originals are best. I like how they're smooooooth.
Here are the ones I like and actually use.
:) ;) :cool: :love: :whoa: :crying: :exdee: :erm: :chuckle: :hot: :Oo:
What the hell is this one suppose to be? :laughing: Some guy talking on a cellphone?
Nervous laughter (laughing with sweat running down the side of it's face).
Apparently.
Every smiley is necessary.
:greenie: Hey look a nickel.
:rolleyes2
What a stupid post.
:greenie: The greenie is special. It's for like.. when you're like... :greenie:
It's hard to explain, but the next time I use it, you'll know. Maybe.
I like this smilie:
