The importance of a smiley manager
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SilverCircle
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There seems to be a tiny bit of confusion about smilies and emoticons. Actually, it's perfectly possible to use emoticons to express your feelings even without using graphical smilies.Wouldn't that mean if they did have image smilies they might possibly be used more than they already are (non-image variant)?
Sites like StackOverflow have a lesser need for smilies because they're not meant for a wide variety of discussions (Outside of troubleshooting for programming). While smilies won't make or break a site like that they do allow people to add personality and emotion to their posts. Smilies open up possibilities in how you can portray your post without having to explain your meaning as the common smiley has been ingrained into people over extended use.
: - ) << this still works and is understood by most. Graphical smilies do have some drawbacks. What if someone uses a green-faced, three-eyed alien face without a nose to express a happy face? Would you still be able to instantly recognize its meaning?
Replacing arbitrary character sequences with images is not always what you want to have:
(from the Wikipedia article about emoticons)
I hope, this poor dude's female boss wasn't totally humorless
Of course they would. I think we can all agree that graphical smilies are a feature that has become standard and which you cannot exclude from any modern forum or community software.
This thread was initially about improving this feature and I do believe that those who advocate better management for emoticons and general improvements in that area do have a point. When I was using vB, I always had the feeling that configuring and customizing smiley packs was not as polished as it should be. I found it cumbersome to use.
Shelley
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Which is what the topic is all about not smilies themselves (are they useful, do they belong on ones site etc ).
That said, I think I've wasted too much time on the whole smiley manager thing speech. It happens great, doesn't nothing gained, nothing lost from here on in.
Kim
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SilverCircle
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Peggy
in memoriam 2016
LOL!Don't look at it too long.
We need that thing as a smiley
Shelley
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Don't look at it too long.
We need that thing as a smiley
I thought i made it clear really with the image. The thread I feel is now being watched. So ideas should be kept within or be stolen. Yeah yeah, keywords "fuel" "fire" but I know I can throw in a third "fact". We are being watched, our ideas picked off. This is no longer a smiley manager thread but a (tbh I'm not sure what this thread is anymore)...
Shelley
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My proposal now would be to get some ui minded people, some devs, designers and other people who really would like to see a smiley manager together to brainstorm, get some mockups drawn up in private. let's face it, doing it in public will not get you any further than just going around in circles at best. This topic will not differ from any other topic and it'll just end being forgotten. I dunno, I'm english, so my common sense might not be at 100% efficiency at this time.
inph
Active member
What sort of rough ETA are you talking about? It would be good to know if it's worth spending our time on this or if we'll just be replicating efforts.
Peggy
in memoriam 2016
It is a heated topic for us.
Shelley
Well-known member
The topic is about a smiley manager how to make it better, not specifically that xenforo has to do it right here right now but for the community to pull their heads out of their arses and brainstorm together. I'm guessing this topic suffers from what I call the vbulletin effect, too many people cooking the broth and ruining it.
Jeeeeeeeeez this topic seriously needs a packet of baby wipes attached to it. Holy crap I'm exhausted.
<< laughing with frustration 
