Suggestion - Why doesnt this forum have smilies yet?

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Why doesnt this forum have smilies yet? This has to be the only forum on the internet that doesnt use smilies lol. It makes posts look so much more interesting. All you need to do is add another button to select smilies, or you could just have certain symbols turn into smilies automatically .

 

We add our own

Smiley xtra 4 http://www.smileyxtra.co.uk/

 

Yea i guess you could do it that way, but I still dunt understand why its not on the forum, i mean this is a forum. It would be nice to just be able to do and you get a happy smilie.

Also not everybody likes firefox ...

 

How can you not like firefox ?
It offers better security, increased browsing speed, free, usefull add-ons, and a fully customizable interface.

But to get on topic, i would guess that a forum this large runs on several servers, and adding smilies would cause extra strain on those servers, they would take up hard drive space that would be better used for more important things, and there's the fact that coding smilies into non-PHPBB coded forums can be a very tedious job.
In the end, i'd say the only way to find out is to wait for someone in charge to come in and comment on wether or not they feel like making smilies part of the standard forum code.

 

We don't all have the option of using IE junk as well..

The smiley prog can run as a standalone in a lot of web interfaces.

I'm running netscape5

 

I like the IE interface, the IE browsing windows, the IE links toolbar, the IE7 sleek display. Google toolbar offers phenomenal pop up protection, and I have many safety features on my computer so safety doesnt concern me. Ive tried Firefox and its too mac-like which is ofc unbearable... I dont like it, thats enough for you to know we can just leave it at that.

Also, this is not a large forum. A large forum is like d2jsp.com, 40 million posts since 03, and they have smilies, as well as many other ways to customize a post. I dont really think forum size can be used to explain why there are no smilies :S

So, K_MitNick your right, in the end it just depends on whether or not the person in charge feels like adding them imo...

heres a ss of d2jsp: http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/7452/d2jspcustomizell6.png

 

F*** me.. a walking M$ advertisment.. Did I say I was running firefox?
If you like the most insecure browser ever created that's up to you....

AD is built from the ground up by ketola and dRD, they probably have reasons for not having smileys. I don't see any problems with not having them.. Dare to be different I say.

What is the real point of smileys? I inhabit forums where they are available and nobody uses them so they do seem a bit pointless...

 

heres a smiley he does not have on that forum,as it might be needed if using ie-7 or vista..

 

From alot of the posts I look at we need frowns more than smiliey's!

 

^^^^^^ hahahaha.. well said

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Smileys? we don't need no stinkin' smileys. Post something humorous or witty and make the people smile, I bet you are one of those people who goes up to women ibars and tells them to smile, without saying anything remotely amusing. (Just kidding)
We're her for the facts, nothing but the facts and a couple of doses of abuse from our favorite rabid squirrel.

 

Yeah &^%*(%^ smileys.. who needs em!

 

I find smilies mostly pointless. As said before, they would take up server space and are rarely used. Most smilies come under phpBB forums, while I think this is a UBB code forum. I bet most people would go crazy with those smilies too.

My thoughts on what should happen to smilies below.

 

the smiley getting wacked, that was cool lol.

 

And there we have the answer...


Sorry.. I couldn't resist just one more...

 

Good, the final answer has been given.
squish the smiley.