I would like a selection of smilies available from the quick response box. This is how I normally respond to posts and it would be nice to add the odd smiley. I know how to do :) and :( and :D but not much else!
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I would like a selection of smilies available from the quick response box. This is how I normally respond to posts and it would be nice to add the odd smiley. I know how to do :) and :( and :D but not much else!
Well the problem would be where to put em. The nature of the QR is that it's a bare bones reply designed for expediency, rather than full features.
Smilies?.........whaaat!........... smilies? do you think that this is a joke site my dear Moira? :D
That is why I use the full reply option. Seriously though, one of the problems with the internet (IMO) is that it is very "flat" or two dimensional?
Smilies allow a certain "animation" (?) that permits you to show a bit of "mood" or "emotion"............ you can let people know if you are joking or not? so that does help to stop flame wars and such?
Just my thoughts...........and I would like to see a greater choice, but as the additions I would like would be neither family nor work friendly, I don't hold out much hope:eek:
LOL, yes Nih, I think that would be a fair wager. :D
OK to give an example of a forum where it doesn't seem to be rocket science, I've taken a screen shot of pcpartsreview with the quick reply box and you can see a link to open a window of smilies.
http://www.moiraatkinson.co.uk/quickreply.JPG
That's invision power board, and probably a native feature of that software. Unfortunately it's not the least bit secure, so we don't use it.
Invision isn't secure, or adding a window of smilies? This is hosted by a guy that keeps it pretty well secured and patched actually. But OK if smilies are not an easy of secure feature to add then fair enough. It was just a suggestion. Do you know how to do the confused or questioning smily manually? I'd often quite like to add that but don't know how.
No, not the smileys, invision. They've had a ton of vulnerabilities. I visit one forum that uses it and it was hacked and impregnated with a virus that most of the members picked up (not me, thankfully)>
Must off been using a pretty outdated version of IPB for that exploit to work. there new version of IPB already has a few security problems yet to be plugged..Quote:
Originally Posted by JPnyc
I don't know which exploit allowed them to be hacked, though.
it's not a matter of what was used, it's more the fact that the admin was obviously to slack to keep the site updated, i mean for that exploit to work he would of had to be using a really old version of IPB and or hadn't bothered updating the security patches. thus some skiddie would of came along with he's point and click app, and pwned the site..Quote:
Originally Posted by JPnyc
well that's how i see it, i guess others will have there own opinion, maybe a thread should be started on this or something..:confused:
http://antionline.com/misc.php?do=showsmilies - this should help you out.Quote:
Originally Posted by Moira
westin
This is just a test :)
:confused:
OK it worked! I used the quick reply thingy for that.
You need to type "confused" but replace the inverted commas with colons
:drink:
Hah! I have cracked it!
That one is *drink* where "*" is a colon :D