Sweeet!

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Maybe this is a bit short notice, but a hurl icon would be cool too, to show distate for something.

Are you testing if the wall is hard enough?

to Jeremy

Thanks, Jeremy.

Why does the embarrassed emoticon look like it's making out?

I feel like it wants me to kiss it ...

I've found that the one you refer to looks more like it's saying 'ho-hum..' or 'I'm sleepy' but maybe you will prefer the 'redface' icon:

Sasha

Yeah, that one ( ) would be OK for expressing boredom (for instance when reading LQ blog entries by Sh******i )

The embarrassed emoticon to me looks more like a 'shouting' one than embarrassed, and since we now have a redfaced emoticon, maybe the embarrassed one should just be changed to a shouting emoticon.

It's a nice emoticon ... it does look embarassed. It's just that at the same time, I get ideas of it kissing (and being embarrassed), yawning, embarassed or sick at the doctor's office (open wide and say ahh).
Maybe it's humble at a Catholic church, receiving the Eucharist.

I think it's neat when forums have a lot of icons to choose from ... I just saw that some of Nixcraft's are good ... they even have a violin player and a drooling emoticon.

I can see that I am in the minority here, but I hate it. LQ's "professional" appearance has just dropped 20+ points. Moving smilies are an obnoxious distraction, & if you're going to have them, then it's time to bring avatars for the rest of us.

One of the reasons I have almost 3,500 posts here & less than 30 at MepisLovers is the moving smilies & avatars there.

Edit: I'm wrong to imply that moving smilies are a new thing @LQ -- I'd forgotten :newbie: -- I just see them so seldom, I'd forgotten they are here. Seeing all those hat tips really unmade my day.

I agree, I understand what you mean, it is nice having a more minimal forum ... I don't mind either, really.

We definitely try to keep LQ having a minimal and professional look. If the consensus is that one or more of the smilies added detracts from that, we'll certainly remove them.

--jeremy

I don't use emoticons at all. A few years ago I corresponded with some guy. He used a lot of emoticons. He put them in almost every sentence. Once upon a time I wrote to him:

He replied:

I replied:

It's not the smilies themselves that bother me, but the ones that move*. Is there any way a permanent "no motion" option could be added to our LQ profiles? It should include, if possible, not only LQ originated content, but also served advertising. Especially Flash.


In fact they distract me so much that I wonder if I have some kind of undiagnosed borderline epilepsy or other neurological problem.