Now that BeoWorld is starting to settle down a little, and we have experienced very few gremlins for such a complex and new site - i thought it time to address an issue that has been mentioned before..

Although you may think you don't care, smileys/emoticons can be great fun to use, and express feelings often words cannot on a thread. They can also help a lot with things that can be misconstrued, and a smiley has got me out of trouble a few times!

So, what are your favourites?  I think we should stick to one "theme" of them, as opposed to taking them from here, there and everywhere. Plus, we need to keep them a little more sensible than some forums!

My favourite at the moment is this one. If you watch them, they are really very funny! 

We will only have a maximum of say 15 though, as they can take forever to load up if you have a whole rack of them! 

Open to suggestions as ever... it's your site!

Lee 

The smileys were one the first thing I disliked on the new forum, but as time went by, I got used to them. I still prefer the more basic one from the old forum. The ones you propose are not bad, but they are some kind of very small and difficult to distinguish IMO, but I have nothing better to suggest.

I think the basic ones are better too, as Tom has said.

I like your suggestion Lee, funny and express the meaning or emotion well.

If you want to exaggerate, simply put more of the same emoticons in your post...

LEE's proposed smileys do include a Cowboy though - should be handy in the Sales/Wanted forums

p.s. Coolskin - I've told you a million times not to exagerate!

Puncher:

p.s. Coolskin - I've told you a million times not to exagerate!

You did?

I know that everyone uses smileys; i just don't use them so much, we can always write our state of mind and sometimes too much smileys could be like a plague.

IMO just a few will keep all happy... the 'smileyers' and the 'non smileyers'

Nice one. If you do use some from that set, Lee, you must include 'rolling on floor'. It makes me laugh just looking at it!

Andy T.

i think the current smileys are but use them less than id like as they take so long to use, i also prefered on the old forum when you could see them as you were typing

i also think the linked ones are a little small

are we going to have a poll to choose the top 15  

it would be nice to have one for silly

 

 

I have to admit to not really being a fan of the present emoticons - they seem to be trying too hard!

The Yahoo ones are better (except the totally annoying Americanism "Talk to the hand & Loser" ones)  I especially like the rolling around one- gotta have that! But being the old fogey that I am I still prefer the "Tom & Jerry" ones from the old site to the "Shrek" ones available now.

Chris.

I preferred the ones from the old site too. Don't really care that much for these MSN ones.