Disable Smileys?

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

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. : )

bakija wrote:

Sorry for the foaming rant.

I miss usenet.

I like.
Oh, this isn't facebook, right? Sorry.
-alf

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!