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tofucake
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Hyrule19215 Posts
April 20 2011 15:31 GMT
#1
It's annoying, especially in Tech Support where people discuss, in particular, streaming and resolutions. :d is a much better option in my opinion. Optionally, allow disabling of smilies completely in a post.
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Chill
Profile Blog Joined January 2005
Calgary25998 Posts
April 20 2011 15:57 GMT
#2
AGREED! Get ride of this abomination.
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Empyrean
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
17065 Posts
April 20 2011 16:46 GMT
#3
I know you used to be able to insert a \ between elements of a smiley to cancel it out.

Something happened to the code. Doesn't work anymore ._.
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semantics
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
10040 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-04-20 17:50:07
April 20 2011 17:26 GMT
#4
16 16:/9 16:\9 :cheeky:
Torte de Lini
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Germany38463 Posts
April 20 2011 17:42 GMT
#5
What is colon nine trying to do?
https://twitter.com/#!/TorteDeLini (@TorteDeLini)
Durak
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
Canada3685 Posts
April 20 2011 18:04 GMT
#6
Posting to display my agreement
tofucake
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Hyrule19215 Posts
April 20 2011 19:18 GMT
#7
On April 21 2011 02:42 Torte de Lini wrote:
What is colon nine trying to do?

It's trying to anger me.
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Torte de Lini
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Germany38463 Posts
April 20 2011 19:47 GMT
#8
On April 21 2011 04:18 tofucake wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 21 2011 02:42 Torte de Lini wrote:
What is colon nine trying to do?

It's trying to anger me.


So... shouldn't we keep it? It's doing what it is intended~
Teasin', but I agree, let's sweep it away.
https://twitter.com/#!/TorteDeLini (@TorteDeLini)
Craton
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States17284 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-04-20 20:28:19
April 20 2011 20:27 GMT
#9
Well, the number 7 already did half the job for you.

+ Show Spoiler +
And if you failed to get the 7 ate 9 reference here, SHAME ON YOU
+ Show Spoiler +
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Carnac
Profile Blog Joined December 2003
Germany / USA16648 Posts
April 20 2011 21:43 GMT
#10
ModeratorHi! I'm a .signature *virus*! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!
Kiante
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Australia7069 Posts
April 20 2011 22:09 GMT
#11
the question is. If they change it, people are gonna start looking crazy in the tech forums having to escape out every : 9. Someone reading this in 100 years time will be looking through these threads and have literally NO IDEA why all the people are avoiding : 9 when it doesn't actually do anything.
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tofucake
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Hyrule19215 Posts
April 20 2011 22:51 GMT
#12
On April 21 2011 07:09 Kiante wrote:
the question is. If they change it, people are gonna start looking crazy in the tech forums having to escape out every : 9. Someone reading this in 100 years time will be looking through these threads and have literally NO IDEA why all the people are avoiding : 9 when it doesn't actually do anything.

I'm 100% sure you're the only one who cares about how people will perceive 2 characters 100 years from now.

Colon Nine Must Die.
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Torte de Lini
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Germany38463 Posts
April 20 2011 23:13 GMT
#13
On April 21 2011 07:51 tofucake wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 21 2011 07:09 Kiante wrote:
the question is. If they change it, people are gonna start looking crazy in the tech forums having to escape out every : 9. Someone reading this in 100 years time will be looking through these threads and have literally NO IDEA why all the people are avoiding : 9 when it doesn't actually do anything.

I'm 100% sure you're the only one who cares about how people will perceive 2 characters 100 years from now.

Colon Nine Must Die.


No, he's right. Historians will be forever baffled!
https://twitter.com/#!/TorteDeLini (@TorteDeLini)
Craton
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States17284 Posts
April 21 2011 00:13 GMT
#14
World ends in 2012, so we've got nothing to worry about.
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Probulous
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Australia3894 Posts
April 21 2011 01:51 GMT
#15
He looks like he has been shot anyway, another one to finish him off?

"Dude has some really interesting midgame switches that I wouldn't have expected. "I violated your house" into "HIHO THE DAIRY OH!" really threw me. You don't usually expect children's poetry harass as a follow up " - AmericanUmlaut
Mortician
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Bulgaria2332 Posts
April 21 2011 03:52 GMT
#16
"If anything, the skill cap in sc2 is higher [than sc1] because there are a lot more things you can do at one given time. " darmousseh
Torte de Lini
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Germany38463 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-04-21 06:11:47
April 21 2011 06:10 GMT
#17
The real issue is ": + 9" is actually an inaccurate representation of the emoticon .

If you rotate the basic layout of the emoticon, you can see that it doesn't match the representative form of : + 9.

In reality...
Bear with me...

is really ": + with 6 flipped"
https://twitter.com/#!/TorteDeLini (@TorteDeLini)
Kyuukyuu
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Canada6263 Posts
April 21 2011 07:55 GMT
#18
On April 21 2011 15:10 Torte de Lini wrote:
The real issue is ": + 9" is actually an inaccurate representation of the emoticon .

If you rotate the basic layout of the emoticon, you can see that it doesn't match the representative form of : + 9.

In reality...
Bear with me...

is really ": + with 6 flipped"


But what if it's actually... : + 9 rotated and then flipped??

+ Show Spoiler +
[image loading]

Wolf
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Korea (South)3290 Posts
April 21 2011 15:42 GMT
#19
Yeah, it gets frustrating when these emoticons pop up in our posts.
Commentatorhttp://twitter.com/proxywolf
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BadWolf0
Profile Joined September 2010
United States300 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-04-22 18:16:08
April 22 2011 18:14 GMT
#20
I move that all smileys be replaced with little animated jpgs of artosis waving at you with a big smile and a stalk of celery in one hand. and :\9 shouldn't be changed... as has been pointed out future psychological cultural anthropoligists will think the entire community suffered from bad obsessive compulsive disorder relating to the number 9
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