I was referring to the posts above yours.

The one from July 2020?

I didn't want people to feel their suggestions had been ignored.

PR is a major strategy of this forum and the reason it's grown so big.

The emoji smileys are too small.

I really dislike modern emojis.

Hate them in fact.

Nightjar wrote:

I really dislike modern emojis.

Hate them in fact.

I don't mind the emojis, what I do mind is people who decorate their tweets with them unnecessarily.

And even worse, people who substitute them for words in their tweets, unnecessarily.

We moved on from pictograms for a reason

These emojis aren't too bad admittedly.

It's the smartphone ones I detest.

There may be a squillion of them for every occasion but to me they're aesthetically ugly, soulless, naff and lazy beyond, literally, yes.. WURDZ!

Old school smileys are genius by comparison.

I've argued with people at bus stops that smileys like are sublimely realised representations of, yes, actual E-MOTIONZ.

:wolno:

:sigh2:

Does anyone want to second it? Remember, smileys need to be seconded to be adopted.

The 'sigh' one was just an afterthought BTW.

Although, the kitten one (that Butterpops scolded me for including text when I first suggested it) has come in very useful for me recently.

IMO, the only 'smiley' that captures genuine down-cast self-pity is 'sighkitten'.

However, 'sighkitten' is, IMO, a profoundly introspective and truly self-pitying expression, whereas has an outwardly pleading quality akin to .

Smileys on this forum are all about subtly sophisticated interpretations.

For me, captures a sentiment somewhere between Golirrano and Kittensigh.

Basically, it's even more pathetic and contemptible.

Like if Oliver Twist was too scared to say "more?" to the gruel-meister.

:merman:

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Is anyone going to second it?