LOL

Did I miss the announcement where the LOL smiley code was changed from lol to : lol : (without the spaces)?

I, for one, found it somewhat confusing when one day, my lol became a . smiley, and the next just showed up as a text lol.


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Same thing happened to me DD...

But I recall there being a conversation awhile back about the word "lollipop" looking like ".lipop" so I imagine that's why it changed.

I don't think there was any announcement, and I had to look in the smiley menu to figure out what was going on.

 

Yes it's been changed. .

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Well thanks for announcing it Alien...geesh
I missed it too.

I never even do : lol : cuz I'm so used to just lol
*shrugs*

Is rotflmao and rofl changed?\

Woah woah Alien, slow down. Announce things please...lol All three changed

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Yes I missed this too. I honestly prefered lol without the :'s cause it's just normal. Maybe change lollipop then? And why change the rotflmao and rofl? Some of these are just normal for us to write and not because you wrote them that way but rofl and lol are something that everyone types, and I think it would be nice to keep them without the :'s as part of the code. . ...but that's my opinion .

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heh, honestly I probably won't go to the trouble to add the :'s and I'll just leave the text as lol.


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"It's always funny until someone gets hurt, and then it's just hilarious."

 

Quick question: Can the smiley code include spaces?
If yes, then having the code be _lol_ (where the underscores are spaces), would probably work decently. It would certainly solve the "lollipop" issue, and would be much easier to adapt to than : lol :, IMHO.

Just a thought...


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"It's always funny until someone gets hurt, and then it's just hilarious."

 

Yes.

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"I'd like an order of fries, a quarter pounder with cheese, I love the light in your eyes, would you go out with me please? I am in love with a McDonald's Girl, she has a smile of innocence so tender and warm, she is an angel in a polyester uniform."

 

There is no 'lollipop' to change. It's not an action, just a word that gets screwed up when you type lol.

As for changing rofl etc, it's because honestly most smilies should be contained within *something* unless I have an ascii smiley code for them. If someone wants to make ascii for every smiley we have, go right ahead so we don't have to use any symbols surrounding a word.

Several people have also messaged me asking that I don't make the majority of smilies just open because lol or rofl is almost part of their vocabulary and they type it on irc/icq and stuff all the time. Difficult finding a happy medium here, and of course we have to work within the confines of the software coding. We can't really adjust how it all works from a 'coding' point of view most of the time. That goes for alot of suggestions that we unfortunately can't get done.

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"I'd like an order of fries, a quarter pounder with cheese, I love the light in your eyes, would you go out with me please? I am in love with a McDonald's Girl, she has a smile of innocence so tender and warm, she is an angel in a polyester uniform."

 

Nope, spaces won't be processed properly. .

I don't see much of an issue with using :'s? Seems extremely easy to me, and even easier is the popup.

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"I'd like an order of fries, a quarter pounder with cheese, I love the light in your eyes, would you go out with me please? I am in love with a McDonald's Girl, she has a smile of innocence so tender and warm, she is an angel in a polyester uniform."

 

I think the :s are a good idea too

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I think the :'s are a good idea, but I probably won't ever use the smiley again...too lazy to go . too much work...yet I do it for the others, but I like just plain 'ol lol better...
Cuz you can specify lol, Lol, or LOL, for different volumes of laughing...

And there was a word I used in the story section that had rofl in it, so I think the changes are pretty good.

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So if I understand you, properly, the UBB string parsing algorithms search for tokens seperated by white space and also subtokens with tokens? This is why : lol :, :l o l:, and other variations with spaces won't work...yet ., .!!!, and big.! all work?

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*gives Nap a pianissimo lollie and then a fortissimo LOL!* Personally I prefer that my LOL's remain just that - three alphabetic letters. Smileys to me must be an "insert" thingy where you go to the trouble to do so. I guess I use LOL a LOT
and one is only allowed so many smiley faceys...ROTFL is not something I do...I hate getting dirty .

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I too thought it was really nice to have lol appear in the text as a .