Disable Smileys?

Is there a way to generally disable the little graphic smileys? I have looked all over, and have failed to find a box to check. I hate little graphic smileys. A lot. And whenever I type : - ), but without the extra spaces, I get a stupid little yellow smiley face. When I just want a : - ). But without the spaces. And just now I was writing a list, and foolishly used "B )" but without the extra space. And got a stupid little yellow smiley face. But with sunglasses. Which made me want to punch something. I realize that some folks *really* like animated smiley faces in their web forums, with little mowhawks and throwing little animated secret devil signs and disintigrating things with little animated laser beams and whatever. But I'm really not one of those people. And while I'd never tell someone that they shouldn't have stupid little animated smileys in their posts (although it does always make me think a little less of them...), I would really like the option to click a little box and have them all just not ever show up by accident in the stuff I post. Sorry for the foaming rant. I miss usenet.

Seconded. They're a real pain in the ass on a forum like this where (8) (eight in parentheses) is common in deck lists. Kind of glad to see it's a B instead of 8. <-- I hope you love that one, Peter.

I don't think that's possible with the current forum software. I understand the need for text without smilies. If some smily codes interfere with the VTES stuff, let me know, and I'll see if those smilie codes could be changed. Jussi Hattara Webmaster Extraordinaire Finnish Politics!

On "classical" php forums, you have a checkbox to deactivate the use of smilies in your message (it doesn't apply to the messages of others). The other feature that is lacking is the "preview" button that I use a lot before posting. Prince of Paris, France Ratings Coordinator, Rules Director

There is a preview button that opens a preview frame either next to or under the textarea that updates constantly. Jussi Hattara Webmaster Extraordinaire Finnish Politics!

> jhattara wrote: > I don't think that's possible with the current forum software. > Bummer. As noted, a lot of other forums have a check box in your profile that is just a blanket "disable smileys" command. That doesn't make them disappear from the forum, it just makes it so when you accidentally (see: B) ) or purposefully (see: ) put smiley code in your message, the system ignores it and just leaves you with the symbols you typed, and doesn't auto-replace them with little yellow smiley face cartoons. The BGG site, for example, has this option.

How do modern smileys hurt, other than accidentically typing one? I think they look nice. <-- see? pckvtes.wordpress.com

> Amenophobis wrote: > How do modern smileys hurt, other than accidentically typing one? > I think they look nice. <-- see? > They don't hurt. I just think they are incredibly stupid and annoying. I realize that this is completely irrational of me, but it is how I operate. A great deal of my endless resistance to moving from usenet to a web forum is based completely in things like graphic smileys and automatically being subscribed to threads and the like. I just don't like them. I don't like looking at them. I don't like when they show up in my posts. I'm not insane enough to want to demand that *other* people don't use them (although I'd like to think that people have enough good sense on their own to avoid them...), but as other web forums have a way to set your preferences such that graphic smileys don't show up in the posts that you make, I figured it was worth checking to see if that option was available to this forum.

> bakija wrote: > > > Amenophobis wrote: > > How do modern smileys hurt, other than accidentically typing one? > > I think they look nice. <-- see? > > > They don't hurt. I just think they are incredibly stupid and annoying. I realize that this is completely irrational of me, but it is how I operate. A great deal of my endless resistance to moving from usenet to a web forum is based completely in things like graphic smileys and automatically being subscribed to threads and the like. > > I just don't like them. I don't like looking at them. I don't like when they show up in my posts. I'm not insane enough to want to demand that *other* people don't use them (although I'd like to think that people have enough good sense on their own to avoid them...), but as other web forums have a way to set your preferences such that graphic smileys don't show up in the posts that you make, I figured it was worth checking to see if that option was available to this forum. > I see. I do not like those largish animated smileys (with guns, pac man, etc.). Thankfully we don't have them here. : ) pckvtes.wordpress.com

> bakija wrote: > Sorry for the foaming rant. > > I miss usenet. > I like. Oh, this isn't facebook, right? Sorry. -alf <INSERT CLEVER QUOTATION HERE>

> bakija wrote: > automatically being subscribed to threads and the like. > Indeed so. Then again, it is not that difficult to unsubcribe immediately after posting. Granted it would be nicer if you weren't forced to do that, but it ain't that big a deal. I'm not sure but when you do a "quick reply" the automatic subrscription doesn't necessarily work. EDIT: Posting this mail didn't subscribe me to this thread. It would seem that nowadays you'd have to check the "subscribe" box in order to subscribe to a tread. Which is good! Finnish Politics!

I indeed disabled subscription as default, according to the poll results. See www.vekn.net/index.php/forum/17-site-a-forum-feedback/792-poll--default-topic-subscription-behaviour#815 . Jussi Hattara Webmaster Extraordinaire Finnish Politics!