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Post#1 » by smith2373 » Sun Jul 1, 2012 8:27 pm

What do you guys think about having smilies like the ones in my avatar and signature? Just a suggestion, thought it would be something different.
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Re: Smilie suggestion? 

Post#2 » by Bertrob » Sun Jul 1, 2012 8:53 pm

I think this is a great idea
I've been on several forums that have unique smilies to match the topic of interest and would love to see a basketball forum incorporate unique basketball smilies
think it would make for a more fun enviroment
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Post#3 » by smith2373 » Sun Jul 1, 2012 9:00 pm

Exactly, this would make the smilies interesting. Tbh the smilies are kind of boring now.

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Post#4 » by retrospect24 » Sun Jul 1, 2012 11:26 pm

Wow, that's a great idea. I would love to see that here.
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Post#5 » by SheedsWeed » Mon Jul 2, 2012 12:54 am

I actually really like this idea.
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Post#6 » by ReturnofMVP3 » Mon Jul 2, 2012 12:14 pm

Me too. Get it done Howard and Co!
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Post#7 » by MalikJoakim24 » Mon Jul 2, 2012 3:13 pm

Like the idea
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Post#8 » by smith2373 » Mon Jul 2, 2012 3:21 pm

If the admins choose to do on it, if you guys don't know what to add, on a site I post on there was a thread where users would submit smilies and if the admins liked them, they would add them.

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Post#9 » by Howard Mass » Tue Jul 3, 2012 3:27 am

I'll pass this suggestion on to our Programmer but they are on vacation till next week.
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Post#10 » by HMFFL » Tue Jul 3, 2012 1:42 pm

Good idea, but I hope it won't happen. The reason is, the smiles are not used often now, I prefer not to see them, and I would really prefer not to see different NBA faces in messages all the time.
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Post#11 » by kyphi » Tue Jul 3, 2012 3:36 pm

HMFFL wrote:Good idea, but I hope it won't happen. The reason is, the smiles are not used often now, I prefer not to see them, and I would really prefer not to see different NBA faces in messages all the time.


yeah, I can see the posters on the GB misusing them to the point of trolling
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Post#12 » by Howard Mass » Thu Jul 5, 2012 7:12 am

I doubt we do it as well.

It would probably do more harm than good.
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Post#13 » by blkout » Thu Jul 5, 2012 9:42 am

Another board I'm on introduced a bunch of these kind of smileys, people pretty much communicate entirely in smileys now lol post quality went down the drain.
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Post#14 » by Howard Mass » Thu Jul 5, 2012 11:24 am

It's not happening.

The GB is actually going to be changing soon.

Last year's policy did not go far enough and sometime during this offseason, I will be implementing something that will be totally different from any forum on RealGM.
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Post#15 » by smith2373 » Thu Jul 5, 2012 3:18 pm

blkout wrote:Another board I'm on introduced a bunch of these kind of smileys, people pretty much communicate entirely in smileys now lol post quality went down the drain.


I post on another forum that introduced these types of smilies and the post quality did not go down the drain.

But oh well I respect your decision HowardMass, at least I tried.
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Post#16 » by Howard Mass » Thu Jul 5, 2012 5:14 pm

We are always open to suggestion but do not think this would be right for the forum.

Thank you for the suggestion though.
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Re: Smilie suggestion? 

Post#17 » by Bertrob » Fri Jul 6, 2012 1:22 am

Howard Mass wrote:It's not happening.

The GB is actually going to be changing soon.

Last year's policy did not go far enough and sometime during this offseason, I will be implementing something that will be totally different from any forum on RealGM.


Just asking- You mean you're trying to cut down on the pointless threads/meme posts more than the last "rule changes" right?
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Post#18 » by Howard Mass » Fri Jul 6, 2012 3:51 am

beryrob,

That is among the things we are going to cut down on.
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Post#19 » by Butterss » Sat Jul 7, 2012 1:46 pm

Thank god your not going to implement this, and i actually would actually like you to go a step farther and start issuing people warnings for just posting those stupid faces. If you look at the Ray allen to Heat thread on the GB smith2373 and Izzo spammed those faces without saying a word in their post.
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Post#20 » by smith2373 » Sat Jul 7, 2012 4:47 pm

If we should get warnings for posting smilies, then anyone who posts smilies, gifs, memes, etc. should all get warnings too.

Hell, let's take it the high school direction, if you don't make a post that is at the minimum 5 sentences, you should get a warning.

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