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Maximum number of smilies?

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New member
There's a smilely limit? How draconian! I also must protest the madatory 60-second 'cooling off period'. ;)

- Gabe
 
Hear hear! <tiny tim voice> "Please sir, may I have some more!" </tim>

Brother Maynard! Three shall be the number of thy counting, and the number of thy counting shall be three. Thouest shall not count four, nor shall thou count two...unless then proceeding on to...THREE. <ahem>

- Gabe :p , :p and :p
 
:( :( We need the forth smiley.:D

Really though I think this is a good thing. This also includes photographs that people could put in there post, to cut down on bandwidth. Right?
 
It simply has to do with the "character" and "culture" of the board. Too many smilies, avatars and post icons turn it into Romper Room for Adults.

The English Language survived countless years without any of the above. However, it allowed for all of the emoticons we now seem to find "necessary" on the Web.
Rich
 
I'm going to make up little flash cards with the smilies on them and keep them in my pocket for use during face-to-face conversations. I'll make a sarcastic joke and them whip out the ;) so there'll be no confusion!

Ahhh, the miracle of modern technology. Now all we need is a TFL built in spell-checker. <not>

- Gabe
 
There's a maximum?

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Gabe, not only a spell checker, but a

brain checker...

One newbie is posting what looks like the results of my cat walking across the keyboard... most of the "words" he is using are pseudo-words made from numbers.

(puts face in hands) "What, oh what is this world coming to?"

;)


My wife is right, I'm going to be really curmudgeonly when I get older... I'm already in training...


-Jorah
 
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