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Old 03-27-2007, 10:40 AM   #1
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I am informed that there are a minimum of smileys available on this site, and there is a reason: this is a forum that encourages both reading and creative thought expressed verbally. Smileys are shortcuts (after a fashion) that short-circuit the communication process. In moderation they can be fun, but I understand not multiplying them excessively. (One of the reasons this thread was started was to try to decipher what certain smileys mean, and the variety of comments shows that smileys can be easily misunderstood or used in various contexts to mean different things.)

You could petition the Wight to add these new smileys, but I don't expect he'll receive them gladly. Estelyn is a bit of an exception, deserving of the honor. And the new smiley can be used in various contexts, but the one that occurs to me is sort of an "aw shucks, you mean li'l ol' me?"
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Old 03-27-2007, 11:36 AM   #2
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You could petition the Wight to add these new smileys, but I don't expect he'll receive them gladly. Estelyn is a bit of an exception, deserving of the honor.
Hm, I think it's quite good for this site not to have too many smileys, as Thenamir said. And if the "bonus" smileys are reserved only really as great praise, then it would be really silly to degradate this praise by making the "extra" smileys as something common (even though I like Phantom and Alien ).
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Old 03-27-2007, 02:31 PM   #3
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"Aw shucks, you mean li'l ol' me?"

After those compliments, I now need a blushing smiley - thag you very buch!
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Old 03-27-2007, 01:47 PM   #4
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this is a forum that encourages both reading and creative thought expressed verbally. Smileys are shortcuts (after a fashion) that short-circuit the communication process.
But are not individual letters nothing more than signifiers for certain ideas? And different cultures pronounce letters differently, just as different individuals interpret images differently given different 'baggage' that they bring to the interaction between self and thought.

Smilies are just slightly more complex symbols, and surely a forum based so much on intelligent communication prizes the artful complexitiy of message?

And as we've all heard, a picture is worth a thousand words. And even Tolkien included illustrations.

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