Smilies

[MikeRocor]

I'm just curious as to who here in the forum uses the old time emoticons directly from the keyboard and who selects smilies from the menu. These four, I typed at the keyboard just to see if they all show up as graphical smilies:



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This was supposed to show up as a "poll", with possible answers being "keyboard", "menu", "both" or "neither" but apparently I did something wrong.

 

[KGIII]

I seldom use them, so I just use the menu.



I do know that you can do them with the keyboard, but I use that so seldom that I'm never quite sure.



I suppose I could also form a frowning face.

That should work.

 

[wizardfromoz]

This was supposed to show up as a "poll", with possible answers being "keyboard", "menu", "both" or "neither" but apparently I did something wrong.

You appear to have it right now, Mike.

These four, I typed at the keyboard just to see if they all show up as graphical smilies:

Top 3 worked, 4th didn't.

Wiz

 

[bob466]

Sometimes I'll copy from sites like this...https://yoursmiles.org/m-pozitive.php or others but sometimes from the menu.
Some examples...

 

[MikeRocor]

Sometimes I'll copy from sites like this...https://yoursmiles.org/m-pozitive.php or others but sometimes from the menu.
Some examples...

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I wondered where some of those came from. Thanks for the tip.

 

[MikeRocor]

You appear to have it right now, Mike.



Top 3 worked, 4th didn't.

Wiz

I had gone back and edited the poll to get it right and though I had fixed the description, too.

I don't really mind if the 2-character smilies don't translate to graphical smilies - in fact, I used to always "turn off graphical smilies" on systems (including phones) that had that option. Call me "old school" but I always felt that text should be... you know... text. Of course, that precludes many of the truly ingenious ones and all of the moving ones.

 

[Terminal Velocity]

My favorite faces from the old times are χD and -.-

I use the Greek χ in order not to replace it with modern emoticon. I like the ASCII style, I rarely use them anyway