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forum_emoticons.html	[quote=G-MANN,16973]How do people feel about smileys? I found them good at first when I was new here, but over time I come to find them slightly inane sometimes, not all the time of course, it depends on how they are used. Sometimes I find this one a bit irksome :tongue: and sometimes when people use this one :wink: I wonder why it is being used, especially someone is disagreeing with me. To me that one means "no worries, my friend", so usually it's OK, although sometimes I think it's used a little too often, so it seems a little overfriendly. And I've never really understood this one :oh: , to me it's like that fed-up sigh people use in arguements. Although at least ones like this :angry: aren't used too often. I think the thing is text can look very stark and blank, so people might read too much into it unless you reassure someone with a happy smiley. You can't use different tones of voice over the internet, so it does affect communication, when you vocally speak to someone, it's far easier to detect their mood (even handwriting shows more human emotion). I wish I had more choice of smileys sometimes, but I can never be bothered to spend time searching for more I can use.[/quote]
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landrover1

i love smilies, but i use them only when i wanna show my emotions
i love this one :grin:

and this one :banzai:

and this one when someone post something really funny :lol:

if appears a new jurassic park tour vehicle,im sure i'll use this one :love:

by the way, everybody know the rumours about the 4th movie of jurassic park?
ok, is offtopic,i'll check if there's already a thread about it :liplick:

CrazyCars

This is a bit wierd :007:

I don't see where this would be needed

G-MANN

I never use this one :cry:

because I think it looks stupid.

As for all these smileys available here on the message board, there are so many of them over 30-odd pages I've never bothered looking through at all (most of them I'd never want to use anyway).

wrenchhead

Funny, I never looked at it that way but agree I don't like it much. If I want to admonish someone I can generally find better ways than a smiley.

Neptune

Quote From: 58_Roadmaster

... but the one I can't stand is the :nono:

...

For some reason I always thought it looked like it was giving the "middle finger" ... :grin:

58_Roadmaster

I like the :beer:

, on some occasions, whenever high praise is deserved, but the one I can't stand is the :nono:

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02Silverado4x4

I used to always use smiley's (not just on IMCDb). Sort of grown out of using them often though. I still will use them when I deem it necessary however.

ford_guy

I like using smileys so that sometimes I don't sound too serious or too "anal." For example, when I'm correcting someone, I tend to use smileys so that I won't come off too strong...just like you said G-MANN, it's sort of a way of saying "no big worry."

antp

Quote From: Wampa-One

Also, I noticed there are many more available to use on the forum, but if you try to use them on the IMCDb comments they only show up as text.

You can use the forum's smileys on imcdb, it is just the syntax that differs:
you have to put the code of the smiley between [: and ] rather than : and :
e.g.

Code:

:007:

becomes

Code:

[:007]

(actually the second one works on the forum too)
This may not work for a small amount of smileys, when the code is different from the filename (forum uses code, site uses filename).

G-MANN

Well, you can find other smileys to use from other sites, but I've never spent any real time looking.