Enough

[bolverk]

PWNED!!!

[JustMyOpinion]

Nov 4, 2008 15:49:46 GMT -5 @bolverk said:

Since the topic is "Enough" then explain how I am off topic. Your trite little comments and stupid little ;D emoticons you include do not endear you with anyone, in fact they helped to irritate a member off of this board who took the time to review his facts. So STFU. I don't really care what you have to say about my posts and I am going to smite you until the cows come home.

Bolverk, I've always thought the use of emoticons are useful since we are at a disadvantage when posting. Verbal language is easier to interpret because we use cadence, rhythm, volume, and body language just to name a few. It is also easier in person to get the other party to realize they are saying something different than the preconceived ideas, or stereotyping the listener may of had initially entering into the conversation. It has happened in this forum several times, and even more so recently with the election debates.

I read this piece this morning:

Use Emoticons or Suffer the Consequences
By Rick Broida, PC World

Late last month, Google trotted out a big ol' batch of emoticons for Gmail users. PC World's Ian Paul has that story, but it got me thinking: How much pain and suffering could have been avoided if Gmail had done this sooner?

Hear me out. I know plenty of people despise emoticons, and some flat-out refuse to use them. But, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I submit to you that emoticons are not only useful, they're often vital.

Consider: How many times have you been sucked into an e-mail or message-board argument over some misinterpreted comment? It happens, and happens often, because written words don't always convey the intent of the writer.

Consequently, an otherwise genial and spirited online discussion can quickly turn ugly, or an e-mail intended as a joke can genuinely hurt someone's feelings. Like when I told Digital Focus blogger Dave Johnson that some band he recommended made my ears bleed, he got all bent out of shape. True, he's a big baby, but I'd neglected to cap my comments with that familiar wink-smile emoticon so he'd know I was joking.

Obviously this is a different kind of "hassle" than I normally address, but the Gmail announcement reminded me how valuable those little emoticons can be. And, hey, if you're not one for smileys, there's always the dancing lobster. Nothing says "I'm kidding" like a dancing lobster.

~Just something to consider...

[bolverk]

JMO, I have been surfing longer then the World Wide Web has been in existence. I began in the days of the Bulletin Boards. Minks use of emoticons is not to convey humor. And neither are her trite little comments. I have no place in my life for socialists, Mink is clearly a socialist in my eyes.

[ferrous]

Nov 3, 2008 19:43:11 GMT -5 Mink said:

Not only are you pompous and arrogant, you can't admit that you are off topic too! Smiting me won't change that fact!

Funny, I haven't been paying much attention to this in house bickering, but Mink's note on being smited caused me stop and stare.

-9, now that's funny.

BTW bolverk, I found it a complete waste of time arguing with progressives. Their circular logic is much like the ploy bible pounders use. Around and around it goes and then when you think you have them on the ropes, they come back with: "the harder it is to believe, the more faith you must have."

If you are encouraged by the act of the hunt rather that the kill, then I wish you good hunting.

[ferrous]

I find the use of emotioncons childish at best lazy at worst.

The English language is one of the fullest and most expressive in conveying thoughts and emotions. Those that are either too lazy or childish to use it properly when exchanging thoughts and ideas should stick with maybe text messaging.

[subdjoe]

Sparing use of emoticons has its place. Think of them as enhanced punctuation. The problem comes when someone uses them in place of words rather than as non-verbal enhancements or uses them in evey other post.

[bolverk]

Yep -9, and I will keep going, as I said, until the cows come home. That will be an awful long time since they passed proposition two. They are all out stretching their legs...