Comments on: Say NO to winky smilies http://www.jonobacon.org/2006/10/16/say-no-to-winky-smilies/ At home with Jono Bacon, Community Manager and Author Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:46:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ubuntu | Dave Murphy: The job is dead! Long live the job! http://www.jonobacon.org/2006/10/16/say-no-to-winky-smilies/comment-page-1/#comment-46089 Ubuntu | Dave Murphy: The job is dead! Long live the job! Fri, 20 Apr 2007 08:36:42 +0000 http://www.jonobacon.org/?p=787#comment-46089 <p>[...] Of course every silver lining has a cloud, but you have to take the (dog) rough with the smooth. (I’d put a in here, but you know how much he likes those…) Previous Post: Daniel Robitaille: Ubuntu in the News » Next Post: Jerome S. Gotangco: Take that Network-Manager! » Related Reading: [...]</p> [...] Of course every silver lining has a cloud, but you have to take the (dog) rough with the smooth. (I’d put a in here, but you know how much he likes those…) Previous Post: Daniel Robitaille: Ubuntu in the News » Next Post: Jerome S. Gotangco: Take that Network-Manager! » Related Reading: [...]

]]> By: jono http://www.jonobacon.org/2006/10/16/say-no-to-winky-smilies/comment-page-1/#comment-4261 jono Thu, 19 Oct 2006 07:35:37 +0000 http://www.jonobacon.org/?p=787#comment-4261 <p>neuro - wise point, but I still hate the damn things. :P</p> neuro – wise point, but I still hate the damn things. :P

]]> By: neuro http://www.jonobacon.org/2006/10/16/say-no-to-winky-smilies/comment-page-1/#comment-4246 neuro Thu, 19 Oct 2006 00:02:48 +0000 http://www.jonobacon.org/?p=787#comment-4246 <p>jono says: <blockquote> <p>My objection is not so much that all winky smilies are bad - just that people who use them all the time are. :P</p> </blockquote></p> <p>So your problem isn't the winky smiley per se, just the people who (over)use them, as you've said, and as I alluded to in my first comment. Why persecute the innocent medium of mood communication because of arseholes? Your campaign to "say no to winky smileys" is therefore inherently flawed - it should be "say no to overuse or unnecssary use of emoticons" :wink:</p> jono says:

My objection is not so much that all winky smilies are bad – just that people who use them all the time are. :P

So your problem isn’t the winky smiley per se, just the people who (over)use them, as you’ve said, and as I alluded to in my first comment. Why persecute the innocent medium of mood communication because of arseholes? Your campaign to “say no to winky smileys” is therefore inherently flawed – it should be “say no to overuse or unnecssary use of emoticons” :wink:

]]> By: neuro http://www.jonobacon.org/2006/10/16/say-no-to-winky-smilies/comment-page-1/#comment-4245 neuro Wed, 18 Oct 2006 23:58:53 +0000 http://www.jonobacon.org/?p=787#comment-4245 <p>the truth will out:</p> <p>[neuro@intrepid Freenode]$ grep ";)" #lugradio.log | cut -d"<" -f2- | cut -d">" -f1 | sed 's/@/ /ig' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -10 794 Xalior 721 Phated 592 mrben 303 Treenaks 297 resiak 222 dotwaffle 213 SlimeyPete 193 TMM 152 Ng 151 VooDoo [neuro@intrepid Freenode]$ grep ";)" #lugradio.log | cut -d"<" -f2- | cut -d">" -f1 | sed 's/@/ /ig' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | grep -i jono 26 jono 1 jonobacon</p> <p>;)</p> the truth will out:

[neuro@intrepid Freenode]$ grep “;)” #lugradio.log | cut -d”<” -f2- | cut -d”>” -f1 | sed ‘s/@/ /ig’ | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -10 794 Xalior 721 Phated 592 mrben 303 Treenaks 297 resiak 222 dotwaffle 213 SlimeyPete 193 TMM 152 Ng 151 VooDoo [neuro@intrepid Freenode]$ grep “;)” #lugradio.log | cut -d”<” -f2- | cut -d”>” -f1 | sed ‘s/@/ /ig’ | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | grep -i jono 26 jono 1 jonobacon

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]]> By: Nick Moffitt http://www.jonobacon.org/2006/10/16/say-no-to-winky-smilies/comment-page-1/#comment-4172 Nick Moffitt Wed, 18 Oct 2006 10:03:12 +0000 http://www.jonobacon.org/?p=787#comment-4172 <p>☻ is the one true smiley.</p> ☻ is the one true smiley.

]]> By: Andrew Smith http://www.jonobacon.org/2006/10/16/say-no-to-winky-smilies/comment-page-1/#comment-4146 Andrew Smith Tue, 17 Oct 2006 20:54:58 +0000 http://www.jonobacon.org/?p=787#comment-4146 <p>People will just think you're Anne Robinson. ;-)</p> People will just think you’re Anne Robinson. ;-)

]]> By: Jono http://www.jonobacon.org/2006/10/16/say-no-to-winky-smilies/comment-page-1/#comment-4145 Jono Tue, 17 Oct 2006 20:46:50 +0000 http://www.jonobacon.org/?p=787#comment-4145 <p>Once again, my issue is not with the winky smiley per say, just its overuse. :)</p> Once again, my issue is not with the winky smiley per say, just its overuse. :)

]]> By: Kat (ChairmanMiaow) http://www.jonobacon.org/2006/10/16/say-no-to-winky-smilies/comment-page-1/#comment-4132 Kat (ChairmanMiaow) Tue, 17 Oct 2006 17:42:22 +0000 http://www.jonobacon.org/?p=787#comment-4132 <p>Some of us communicate a lot of what we say in sarcasm, and using it on irc without a tool to indicate what you've just typed is somewhat hard! I think marking up text to indicate tone would be rather more annoying. Any other suggestions about how to indicate that, or should we be ambiguous? (And how here to I indicate that I'm being slightly tongue in cheek?)</p> Some of us communicate a lot of what we say in sarcasm, and using it on irc without a tool to indicate what you’ve just typed is somewhat hard! I think marking up text to indicate tone would be rather more annoying. Any other suggestions about how to indicate that, or should we be ambiguous? (And how here to I indicate that I’m being slightly tongue in cheek?)

]]> By: Jim http://www.jonobacon.org/2006/10/16/say-no-to-winky-smilies/comment-page-1/#comment-4109 Jim Tue, 17 Oct 2006 10:12:20 +0000 http://www.jonobacon.org/?p=787#comment-4109 <p>:E</p> :E

]]> By: Tyler http://www.jonobacon.org/2006/10/16/say-no-to-winky-smilies/comment-page-1/#comment-4079 Tyler Mon, 16 Oct 2006 22:15:26 +0000 http://www.jonobacon.org/?p=787#comment-4079 <p>OK ;)</p> OK ;)

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