More emoji for LL?

[zzz72w3r]

I used to hate emoji because I thought it is lazy communication.  For business correspondences I still hold that opinion but I am changing my mind socially. 

 

LL is the only forum I make active posts after lurking for months as learning about modding is now becoming a hobby but more often than not reading my own posts, especially those trying to be funny, to me at least I came across like a jackass.  Obviously the line between humor and insult has been a general problem with faceless communication since modem was invented but I do see the benefit of having a good selection of emoji in smoothing out the rough edges.  In watching online interactions sites with tons of fancy emojis are definitely more civilized and welcoming than those do not even if the quality of discussion is no better

[Storms of Superior]

[zzz72w3r]

 

You just made my point.  I can interpret your post as either amusing, ironic, sarcastic, personal slight or even insulting.  I have no idea of your intent and you have no idea how I'd take the message, maybe you care what I think even just a little bit and maybe you don't give a slightest concern after you hit reply.  Hence the problem. 

 

If we cannot reverse the tide that we are now all faceless and use ever fewer words to communicate socially, at least we can supplement it with more and better emoji.  Like I said, emoji has no place in business communiques but it does improve online social interaction.

 

[windpl]

Quality doesn't go well with quantity.

[zzz72w3r]

Quality doesn't go well with quantity.

 

Certainly but I am surprised by the quality of stuff out nowadays.  A popular site I visited temper used to flare out fast and heavy but all of a sudden got much more civilized.  The only difference was a new set of emoji.  The old set was identical to the one here but the new set has about four times more icons but more important the emoji are animated and, for lack of a better term, more emotive.  How often do you appreciate a post far more because the author included a gif?  It's the same idea.  It reinforces the posters' intent which reduces misunderstanding.

 

[Kaz Aanh]

 

You can do it already by using external links.

Here is my favorite set

Just copy a direct link and post as a image in your post

I never posted so many emoticons in one post

I feel like a facebook user now

 

What I would like to see is a support for .webms. Its a way better than .gif.

[LordJerle]

They're overused as it is.  I miss the days when I could make dorky smilies without having a completely different one breaking up the one I'm making.  More emojis?  There needs to be less.

[fizzybutt]

I'm getting old... I'm still calling the silly things emoticons. Who decided these things needed a new name anyway?

 

*edit:

 

Reading back through the few posts I missed I see someone else still does too!

[myuhinny]

Probably someone that couldn't spell emoticons. I generally stay away from gif threads and if I run across one that prevents me from scrolling the page/clicking on stuff and what not I add the uploader to my blocked list. Animated smiley's would just be another resource using thing that the site really doesn't need. Imagine 1000+ pages and threads everywhere with animated crap in it pages and the site would start to crawl. It is why threads once they hit a certain size they get archived because they started becoming a resource using whore when someone loaded up a huge sized thread because it loads everything and when many people do it at the same time it would cause the site would lag like crazy among other thing.