Mat99 on 26/9/2019 at 15:36

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Ahh yes, my stupid habit. I have a bad tendency to spam the emots too much and sometimes even use them as a DOT, but...




..."egregious" You say. My text counter says: above 4000 bytes in last post and 13 of emots... It don't looks egregious for me as emots are 0,325% of 4KB text, but OK. It may be too much for You, and furthermore You are not first person who told me about it. Why You guys just don't use the browser plugins to deal with that? It still remains a deep secret to me... That's why I always put them as a PLAIN-TXT emots, so everyone can easily seek&destroy them by the simlple option and they will be 'removed' be switching on-the-fly. The specific "string-chain" may be changed to the {SPACE}, hug-dot or whatever else You want including colour (hint: user's forum background-colour).

However, it still doesn't solve my "emot-spam" problem, so I'll set the red-alert on 0,1% of emots in the text and there will be no more than very few or none of them :P

Mat99 on 26/9/2019 at 16:26

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"Use plugins Luke" :P

Mat99 on 26/9/2019 at 20:54

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Looks like the discussion has turned into a different direction than expected and not where we wanted. [there should be a smile here, but I'm not allowed to. They don't let me].
Well, where then is the 'Sewer' potcast episode? or, should I asked, when? [said with a look of reverie and a pinch of curiosity].

gamophyte on 27/9/2019 at 06:21

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Psych0sis yes, the bank is actually pretty good. I want to say it was kind of ahead of its time.

Mat99 on 30/9/2019 at 15:06

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You should see Chinese forums with their additional tamagotchi icon-emots... If You think what I've done is rude, then You should put 1/5 their population strict in to the jail immediately. "condescending and rude" - I just can't imagine Zacharias who receives it that way, but OK, there are THE others...



I thought my very first and very last sentences in post #92 was my calming down, but apparently not... Considering a plugin: That was AFTER my post #92, so if very few or none of emots are STILL too much for someone, (and moreover the 'comment' suggested strict zero as best), I found plugin as an extremely good advice, as I can NOT promise none of them in the future... (always).

Furthermore, he would have no longer experienced frustration if another user accidentally used an emote. And imagine that my tongue at the end was very telling too, as well as the quote he trimmed just right before two important words I said.

As Alex pointed very well - emots should be used for a special occasions and not as dots or commas, as it was in my case. 8 of 13 (AT LEAST) unnecessary and used without need. Let's learn something from it and draw conclusions for the future. I can't imagine a repeat of such an offtop just because some new registered person/user will do the same, so I would love to see something like that after clicking "Preview" or "Send" button always when there are more than 5 or 6 emots:

(https://www.dropbox.com/s/v0x2ylt9mpdibit/sl.png)

Clearly visible warning, so the user can think about what he just did and make a decision: Send it? or Edit? He could also reread the Smiles-Section again by simple clicking. And there should be - no more than 2, 3 - additional sentences (bolded) about WHY overuse is bad and what exactly is suggested as the correct use, so every new user will know at the beginning.

If the user will click "Send", then he's aware of what he is doing, and already knows that it can cause dissatisfaction with the others. Also it may be a situation where user is in need to send many of emots for purpose or other special reason.

Moreover, if there will be more than 8, 9 in the text, it would be nice they will be converted to a less invasive text versions automatically when they are icon-ones (at least all those simple as in the image).