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Post by Pink Betty on Mar 19, 2012 18:38:50 GMT
Please note the new thumbs up / down feature available to the bottom right of every post. Also, LMH has provided an 'i'm liking it' type pic that you can now find in the smilie section.  |
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Post by Pink Betty on Mar 19, 2012 18:53:18 GMT
....oooh! can you make it all png-y and nice? and smaller?
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Post by Pink Betty on Mar 19, 2012 20:22:49 GMT
i don't either - this is the best i can do  |
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Post by excoriator on Mar 19, 2012 22:42:09 GMT
You know, I think most of us here are perfectly capable of expressing our approval or disapproval of a post when we feel like it with out the need for emoticons or hieroglyphics which would be scorned by anyone with the possible exception of a dimwitted illiterate schoolboy.
What do you imagine is added by this footling symbol?
I'd really like to know what you imagine this sort of thing adds to communication - apart from turning the board into a kindergarten.
We have at our disposal a language used by people like Shakespeare, Milton, Chaucer, Woodhouse, and Dickens all of whom managed without the need for a single emoticon. Not one of them chose to end every sentence with a smiley face or a sad one. They made their point with the language, and brilliantly. If the 26 letters and a handful of punctuation marks was good enough for them it is sure as hell good enough for me.
I will refrain from telling you where you can stick your stupid thumb. I'm sure you get my meaning and without the need for a single emoticon.
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Post by aqua on Mar 19, 2012 23:16:35 GMT
Please note the new thumbs up / down feature available to the bottom right of every post. Also, LMH has provided an 'i'm liking it' type pic that you can now find in the smilie section. Yes, but you didn't tell us where, Bets. (For others' info - you scroll down for about 3 minutes, and it's the penultimate one as of this time.) |
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Post by aqua on Mar 20, 2012 0:13:41 GMT
You know, I think most of us here are perfectly capable of expressing our approval or disapproval of a post when we feel like it with out the need for emoticons or hieroglyphics which would be scorned by anyone with the possible exception of a dimwitted illiterate schoolboy*. Well done, exco, for managing to not quite use the term 'thumbed down', no I mean 'dumbed down'. How I hate that unthinking kneejerk expression! But why the disablist dyslexist sexism, exco? We have at our disposal a language used by people like Shakespeare, Milton, Chaucer, Woodhouse, and Dickens all of whom managed without the need for a single emoticon. Not one of them chose to end every sentence with a smiley face or a sad one. They made their point with the language, and brilliantly. If the 26 letters and a handful of punctuation marks was good enough for them it is sure as hell good enough for me. If we used the language of Shakespeare, Milton, Chaucer, Woodhouse (ie, I assume, Wodehouse), and Dickens, we'd be put in the "dunces' corner" - wrongly, of course, as "dunces"* always were. Eschew emoticons if you will, and as I do most of the time  , but allow them to be useful for the future I will refrain from telling you where you can stick your stupid thumb. Up yours? -------------------- Exco, I realise you're trying to make up for the absence of LJ (who's taking a long time to metamorphose from deepspacenine to anothergeezer) and of NickCS (who must've been livid with deepspacenine for impersonating him in the guise of astro boy); but you're not stirring the loins quite yet. |
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Post by Pink Betty on Mar 20, 2012 1:14:34 GMT
Gosh - I'm going to have to scour the web for an Exco friendly emoticon   ;D |
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, but allow them to be useful for the future 
