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Something like the 8 smilie max limit that UBB provided?  I dunno but I agree.  Hey Goo!

That's Gooey (the official pronunciation of GUI), and it should be an option in the profile if you do that. Some people like looking at other people's smilie art!

Goo = Gooey shortened.

And if we wanted to get really fancy and implement it in the display preferences we could even allow each user to choose their own smilie limit.. Hmm.. But it might be more efficient to just check for the smilies upon submital instead of checking each time its displayed.. Hmm...

I think an 8 smilie limit would be better than 15 (I mean, come on, who really needs 15 smilies), but any kind of limit would be an improvment.

Oh come on! It's not like they take that long to download or can mess up the layout. I've only seen (and done. heh heh.) an abuse of the smilies one or two times. If there really is a gross abuse then a mod can just edit the post. I think it's more likely that you'd have a very long and inciteful post that needed more than eight smilies than any real serious abuse of the smilies would occur.

Oh come on! It's not like they take that long to download or can mess up the layout. I've only seen (and done. heh heh.) an abuse of the smilies one or two times. If there really is a gross abuse then a mod can just edit the post. I think it's more likely that you'd have a very long and inciteful post that needed more than eight smilies than any real serious abuse of the smilies would occur.

I used to feel that way, and I argued in favor allowing unlimited smilies.  But after some thought, I can't think of any legitimate reason why you'd need that many smilies in one post.  It's uninspired artisitically, the joke's been done already so it isn't funny, and if they happen to all be animated, it's just creepy.

how 'bout a mod to allow us to select whether smilies show up?  If they don't we'd just see the tags like :blah: or : )
then there's the problem with the img tag to get around it but I guess it goes back to trusting the forum users to be responsible...

Hmm I remember saying this a while back and everyone was just "meh"

I was one of the people who was just meh.  I've had a change of heart.  I'm not asking that they bend over backwards tweaking lines and lines of php, I was just saying that it might be a good idea if it is something that is quick and easy.

In other words, on a 10 scale, I'd rate it at about 2 in priority.

Hey, I think all threads in Forum Suggestions should be a poll from 1-10 so users can vote on how big the issue is.  OK, I rate that suggestion at around 1.

dont limit the smilies... theres really no point because you could easily just use the img tags to add more smilies to your post.... and it dosnt take any more time to download 20 smilies than it takes to download 2... if they are all the same image, it gets downloaded once.. after that its in your cache... if you're going to limit it, make the limit like 30 or something.... otherwise with the embedded quotes, if the person you are quoting has 6 smilies in their post and the limit is 8, then you can only put 2 in

This is starting to sound like more work then it's worth. If it would be rather easy to add a smiley limit to the display preferences (italics to emphasize the needed optional-ness of it) do it, otherwise don't bother.

note the use of 9 smileys



 

Now tell me, what was the point of doing that? You seem like the kind of person who wouldn't want a smilie limit, but doing stuff like that is what would make the admins impose one.

Sense of humor and/or irony, anyone?