Smileys / Emoticon question

[mrp-admin]

Hi-

I'd like to know exactly what problems people are having with emoticons; we enabled them due to popular request and there are frequent complaints about them interfering with text. If there is a specific one that is causing a problem we CAN either agree to remove it entirely, or change it's coding to display it.

Please reply with what your specific issues have been, and if possible, screenshot the exact text before and after to fix these all here and now.

(Or, if you all want, we CAN disable them entirely again).

Thank you!
MRF-Admin

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[M A V I C]

I'd be interested in hearing what people's complaints are (specifically.) I know that there's some (?) that are close to punctuation we might use. I usually just work around those.

[Paul F.]

The usual problem complained about is the smiley...
When using a comma and parenthesis (I think), which is not uncommon in plain typing, the Phorum turns that into a smiley.

Aside from that one, I like having them available.

[deckeda]

And it's my understanding that mrp-admin is asking so that we no longer have to DO workarounds.

A quote mark followed by a close parenthesis erroneously creates a winking smiley. ") isn't considered a proper code substitute for

Hit the quote reply to see exactly what I typed above.

[freeradical]

They're all fine as they are now.

[haikuman]

deckeda wrote:
And it's my understanding that mrp-admin is asking so that we no longer have to DO workarounds.

A quote mark followed by a close parenthesis erroneously creates a winking smiley. ") isn't considered a proper code substitute for

Hit the quote reply to see exactly what I typed above.

I could see tendencies for seppku being stimulated and developed by such horrific
consequences :banghead:

[SDGuy]

I've got no problem with them - just have to remember to use the "Preview" feature, in case something I type in inadvertently gets turned into a smiley - usually happens when using parantheses and quotes
("this is a test")

yep - just throw a space in there, and it turns into
("this is a test" )

[mrlynn]

Please keep smileys (smilies?), but change the coding for those few that pop up inadvertently as a result of normal punctuation, specifically deckeda's example: quote + close paren = ")

Thanks,

/Mr Lynn

[michaelb]

I never use them and voted no. but it doesn't bother me either that others want to keep them. I just don't want my typing to be changed into smileys. I usually have trouble with paratheses, but I have never complained about that. I would have put a parathesis into that previous sentence, but was afraid of the smilie. I thought this was fixed though, wasn't there an option or a checkbox somewhere to disable auto putting them in?

[cbelt3]

The only comment I would have is the b-o-o-t-y smiley gets edited out by the 'cussing' filter. Beyond that, the occasional smiley that pops up in posts from perspicacious punctuation proximity is not perplexing. Preview prevents it.