Smiley Top Eight

[Fionavar]

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The Smiley Top Eight!

 

Hello to all the gecklings, geeks, SW fanatics, those pining for Aliens, stalking Alpha Protocolers and general denizens of the Obsidian Community The Mod Squad would like to invite you again to participate in a Smiley event ... after further rancour, debate, tail slashing and mayhem, it feels like it is time to add to our options of expressing ourselves in an emoticon sort of way! So ... we would like to invite members to recommend smilies in the following format:

 

1

2

3

 

We'll leave the thread open for a while and in that time hopefully we'll have a lot of input and suggestions. The thread will be closed and all of the smilies lined up and (depending on volume) there will be 2 rounds to limit and pair down to a final Top Eight.

 

The general intent of the Forum Guidelines applies to suggestions and member's interaction. As well, only suggestions that are accessible through open source/communal smilies may be considered. We don't want any Rule's Lawyers to come a knockin'. So please don't throw the sand after submitting your ideas. If this process works, the Mod Squad would likely open up a rotating Top Eight removal/addition. Constantly pruning and adding smilies - fun, eh?

 

Well start your smilin' and get to suggestin'

 

Each member can recommend no more than 8 smilies. Then, through the various rounds, the member(s) who has(ve) smilies that make it to the Top Eight will be able to choose a Custom Title for themself(ves) (barring approval of course ). I hope that make sense ... so get recommending, ask clarifying questions and do play nice in the sandbox ...

 

Respectfully,

 

Fionavar

 

PS Yes a great portion of this is recycled text - face it, I am an inherently lazy dragon ...

[Deadly_Nightshade]

I might change these later, but here are the first suggestions:

1)

2)

3)

4)

5)

6)

7)

[Humodour]

Basic codes I'm surprised aren't on the boards yet:

1)

We need an obvious sad face icon here for the code

 

2)

We need a crying/tear sad face hear for the code

I don't think this is the best one. I'll keep looking.

 

Luxury codes which are fun and would see use without being too elaborate:

3)

A fun frustration smiley which saw mass usage in the days of the Winterwind boards. Should have the code

 

4)

Another fun smiley for indicating disgust at an idea, or the fact that one has a hangover. Should have the code :puke:

 

5)

Used in response to a post you think is awesome and such. Code :worship:

 

6)

I would like to use this on trolls and such. Code :nono:

 

7) and

This thumbs up/down image is severely lacking on this forum. These ones should be added! Code :haksup: and :haksdown:

 

8 )

Similarly, I think this roll eyes smiley works way better. Code :roll:

 

Good to see you guys are still improving the forums. I was starting to go nuts wondering where the frown smiley was, for example.

 

I might update these later (remove some, add some) but I doubt it.

Edited April 16, 2008 by Krezack

[Humodour]

What voting system would you use? I presume it will be a weighted-tier system? Obviously a pair-off is rather complex comparatively, and is woefully inaccurate if you wish to select more than the single best/strongest winner (unless you wish to repeat the process from the start each time eliminating only one winner... completely inefficient).

 

I would suggest something of the form:

Each user votes for 3 option

1st gets 3 points towards its total

2nd gets 2 points towards its total

3rd gets 1 point towards it total

 

I'm not sure how many winners you want, but if you're aiming for 8 winners, you may want to give more votes per user - maybe 8 votes, but with enough voters, you could do fine with 3 or 4 votes each.

[Pidesco]

[mkreku]

1.

2. (for the Alpha Protocol forum)

 

I actually don't want too many animated smiley's around here. Makes the place look retarded.

[walkerguy]

Basic codes I'm surprised aren't on the boards yet:

1)

We need an obvious sad face icon here for the code

This thumbs up/down image is severely lacking on this forum. These ones should be added! Code :haksup: and :haksdown:

 

:sad:

 

?

 

Edit: Adding my own... I like it. Smiley Carnival!

 

Gorth.

Reccommend switch to Gorth's.

Edited April 16, 2008 by walkerguy

[walkerguy]

1) :dazed:

2) :uretard:

3) :close:

4) :fire:

5) I've seen some worship before but heres a good one. :worship:

6) :trash: OR

7) Better dead horse. ;deadhorse;

8] Got to have something this classic. :vader:

Edited April 16, 2008 by walkerguy

[Humodour]

Basic codes I'm surprised aren't on the boards yet:

1)

We need an obvious sad face icon here for the code

This thumbs up/down image is severely lacking on this forum. These ones should be added! Code :haksup: and :haksdown:

 

:sad:

 

?

 

I see it now. Why the heck doesn't it appear when I type the following?

 

Regarding the thumbs ones: Yeah, the current ones suck tbh. The ones I presented were ones previously used. I guess I'm just nostalgic. Besides, I'd rather post a thumb than a thumb AND a lame face.

 

And why on the left don't all emoticons show? It makes sense that if I can scroll throw them (Previous/Next buttons) that you'd display them all there. Doesn't make sense - it's not like there is a limit to how many can appear there.

 

On perusal of the full emoticon list, I propose the following independently of the goings on of this thread:

:sad: be changed to the code

:'( be changed to the code

 

Also, I urge people to vote and submit not the emoticons which are funniest, but which you can picture people using. It gets annoying otherwise. This is why, for example, I doubt I'll vote for any of Deadly_Nightshade's emoticons. It's also probably why the ban and dead horse emoticons got chosen in the past but are never used.

 

Moreover, 5 is a duplicate and thus has been replaced. Revised list:

 

1)

2)

3)

4)

5)

6)

7) and

8 )

 

Some of the above could be considered similar to current ones. Vote for them if you, like me, would prefer them instead of the current ones, or at least alongside the current ones.

 

My favourites: 1, 3, 7, 8.

 

I would edit my original post, but yet again my innocent attempts at being orderly are thwarted by a senseless time-limit to editing posts.

[walkerguy]

: sad : should be changed to yes! But why have the sad face blue? Also, asking myself, who would actually use a :vader: icon?

[kirottu]

<---This smiley must be chosen.

 

Let

[Fionavar]

On perusal of the full emoticon list, I propose the following independently of the goings on of this thread:

:sad: be changed to the code

:'( be changed to the code

 

Also, I urge people to vote and submit not the emoticons which are funniest, but which you can picture people using. It gets annoying otherwise. This is why, for example, I doubt I'll vote for any of Deadly_Nightshade's emoticons. It's also probably why the ban and dead horse emoticons got chosen in the past but are never used.

 

Changes code to made - challenge to voting makes sense to me fwiiw ...

 

As for voting, at the moment we are just listing. In the next phase there will be more info about how that part works. So just list 8 for now (if you have not done so). thanks Krezack!

[walkerguy]

Awesome Smiley rearrangements, Fionavar.

 

Testing new codes 123...

 

[Moatilliatta]

I actually don't want too many animated smiley's around here. Makes the place look retarded.

I agree.

[walkerguy]

code (eight then a parentheses) should be changed.

 

If you're making a list

 

1) Aliens

2) Alpha Protocol

 

You don't want to go to eight and be like:

 

7) Neverwinter Nights

Knights of the Old Republic

9) Sith Lords Restoration Project

 

I don't know. Make it &) or something. I had to use ] and Krezack used an extra space. It should just be changed.

Edited April 16, 2008 by walkerguy

[kirottu]

code (eight then a parentheses) should be changed.

 

If you're making a list

 

Or you could learn to use the list function. It shouldn

[walkerguy]

I suppose, but not when I usually use Fast Reply.

[LadyCrimson]

1. -- the only decent Aliens type smilie I've ever found

 

2. -- it's just cute

 

3. -- extra happy in a non-w00t way

 

4. -- for the exercise enthusiasts

 

<---This smiley must be chosen.

I've always loved that one too - so I suggest it too.

Edited April 17, 2008 by LadyCrimson

[Fionavar]

I've always loved that one too - so I suggest it too.

 

Silly rabbit - you know you can't poach someone else's already suggested smiley

[LadyCrimson]

so I suggest support it too

Fixed?

[Gorth]

Hmm... imageshack seems to be going down the toilet. I'll have to find another place to host my suggestions

[Humodour]

Hmm... imageshack seems to be going down the toilet. I'll have to find another place to host my suggestions

 

What do you mean?

[Deadly_Nightshade]

Hmm... imageshack seems to be going down the toilet. I'll have to find another place to host my suggestions

 

If you want to, just PM me the links and I'll host them on a forum I admin and send you the hotlinks - that's what I did for most of mine.

[Gorth]

Hmm... imageshack seems to be going down the toilet. I'll have to find another place to host my suggestions

 

What do you mean?

That it has been so slow lately, that it keeps timing out, both when trying to access the site, and when finally succeeding, then when trying to upload a 7kb gif file

 

If you want to, just PM me the links and I'll host them on a forum I admin and send you the hotlinks - that's what I did for most of mine.

Thanks, but... they are all in a folder on my computer

 

Anyway, seemed like it could keep within the time-out limit tonight.

 

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• Stupid move -
  
• Alt account -
  
• PC gamer - :pcgamer:
  
• Come here and let me maul you - :ihateyou:
  
• Thread hijack in progress - :hijack:
  
• Uncontrollable joy - :ecstatic:
  
• Oh noes... - :nonono:
  

[Fionavar]

We'll give it a few more days since their is so much enthusiasm