Smileys or no smileys ?

Started by Charizard★ October 10th, 2010 9:19 AM
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I use them! :P They're fun! ^_^ You just used one though? o_O I thought you didn't like them :S

But yeah, I like how you can use them to convey emotions in post. But some people overkill, like a certain forums member who's made me kinda dislike this one >_> which I usually like.
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I use smilies as a way to express myself. To let others know if I'm happy, or sad. Sometimes if I'm sad, I don't use any, however. I don't use them a lot on the forums though, mainly just on msn. Just because there are no smilies in this post... doesn't mean I'm sad!



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I try to keep posts relatively professional-sounding (unless I'm posting in OT or PT). I use them frequently in VMs, though. Like Zebeedoo, I use them to express emotion in what I am saying.

Smilies in the posts of others drive me crazy, so I have them disabled. If something annoys me, I assume it annoys everyone else. No smilies.
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If I feel the need to be silly, then I'll use a smiley. Otherwise, if I'm trying to make a serious point, then I'd rather use proper wording to convey my views instead of relying on emoticons to do so. Oh, and picture smilies can go die.
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I hate hate hate hate hate the smiley images on any and every forum. In any case, :D looks better at the side. :D

And I only use smileys when I'm not serious. Anything formal or serious, then I will most probably not use smileys.

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I use them almost as often as punctuation, a sentence just doesn't feel complete unless I put a smiley at the end of it. :P

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I hate smileys, I have them disabled both here and on MSN. I love text-based smileys though! :DDDDD
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I used to abuse text smileys so much, almost every instant message or VM would contain some sort of smiley. Now, I don't ever use them unless it's in a mocking fashion. I'm not sure what caused the change, I guess I just got annoyed by how they're overused and just gradually stopped using them myself. I don't mind it when other people use them, as long as there isn't one every single sentence.

As for the image smilies, I disable those.
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I do use those general smileys: :),:(,:p,;), and a few other, as they are really helpfull to poin out a joke, or show your current emotions....

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I disable smilies in text, but I use text based smilies quite often. I tend stay away from super mainstream stuff like :), :(, ;), XD, and ^_^.

Smilies I tend to abuse are :x, :<, :>, ⊂(゚ヮ゚)⊃, :V, #(X '________'), and ;;.
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On my posts in the past I used to use smileys constantly, but as time passed by I just kept them to the level of using them in VMs or on my MSN with people that I know. Rarely I used them on my posts and I dislike the forum smiles, they annoy me so much, and it's the same for MSN so I disable them so I don't have to see them. The post just seems a bit untidy for me if I do use a smiley on them these days. I'm not sure why, though.

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I don't even remember the last time I used a picture!smiley, as I've pretty much disabled them in IM, and here on PC. Text-Based smileys, on the other hand, are something that I do indeed use frequently, but usually when I'm not expressing something serious. Yeah... pretty much it, orz.

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I can't do image smilies (especially PC's!), but I'm a sucker for text smillies. The more excited I am, the more I put in. It's a rare post when I don't have some sort of smilie in it. That's when you can tell that I'm being pretty serious. ^^;

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No, not here... except :) and :( sometimes. Obviously I have the 'disable smilies in text' setting checked; although I don't see anything wrong with them (besides the way our default emoticons really show their age), their would-be sparsity in my posts would look out of place, and I think they tend to look out of place on forums in general anyway.

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I disable the picture smileys because I don't think they do the text ones justice. Like... :D I just don't like its picture.

But I really use smileys a lot, like:
:3
;)
:D
D:
:(
^_^

And not really a smiley...
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