Do you think Mylot should have Smileys

smileys?? a BIG NO for mylot. i, being, a person who never misses out any chance to flaunt her smiley treasure, is more likely to accept your proposition. on the contrary, i would not want it in myLot. there are a few causes: 1. digression: we would be digressed from the main discussion and spend out time figuring out the meaning of the emoticons 2. supposing that you are a smiley freak aswell, you should agree on the hoardes of NEW emoticons being used each day, this would definitely perplex the users. 3. many a times we could possibly get misinterpreted and this could well become a place of vengeance 4. most importantly, quality and content would going to suffer a lot. however, they could be a check on usage of emoticons. like, one user could use 1-5 every fortnightly and he would have to choose from definitive emoticons fixed by the moderators. lastly, i don't want to see out myLot at any cost and i bet you don't aswell.

I actually think its refreshing for people to have to use words to express themselves. It makes you think harder about what you are going to say. There are words to represent everything a smiley does so why bother? Especially when on this site the more words you write the more you get paid.

I was just thinking that last night, I'd also like to be able to use HTML tags for bold and italics. Now about all we have to add any jazz to our posts is using ALL CAPS and that can be a little annoying. Let's hear it for some smilies!!!

Smileys..oh no. It is better we dont have them here. Smileys are all over the internet and i dont want to see them here also. If mylot introduces the option of using smileys, then there will be very formal smileys in the first place(like we have in the yahoo messenger)..but then slowly there will be bigger size smileys. And then.. there will be talking smileys. And then.. there will be jumping smileys. And then.. the dancing smileys. And then....there will be sorts of wicked and demon smileys. I think there is a greater chance that they are misused. Actually i love smileys a lot, and i am afraid i will get carried away with these smileys and waste my time in trying to use them in places where it is unnecessary. I think we are better off with the text. Smileys are effective than words, but then they tend to magnify the expression both ways. Positively and negatively. Some people are quite rude and if they start using the smileys it will only get more worse.But the idea of smileys is really good.

It would be a great idea if mylot can add this function. But it is not so important at all. You can always use your text to express your ideas well, right? =)

I think smileys are a good way to add more expression to what we discuss on here, the only thing is that in some other chat rooms people can go a bit overboard when using them, but overall I think they are a pretty good way of helping to express oneself especially if there is a bit of a language barrier.

yes, that would brighten people up when they see they have a great responce

I feel smileys look really cute, but then in some responses you will see only smileys and no words in your response as some people do think that by sending smiley they have said all. This is what my cousins does when I chat with him.

Well smilies would be nice. Though since I'm so used to my Japanese text smilies, i.e. ^_^ ^_^' O_O V_V ^_~ -_- etc. I don't know how much I'd use them. So whereas it'd be cool, I think it'd be more important for them to get an edit button for postd (they can limit how many times you edit if they;d like..as long as there WAS one) or a spellcheck..something I know I'd USE.

Hello,bluewings,I think it is a good idea for mylot to have smileys so that we can use them for our discussions and replies,I notice that this feature is available in most other forums,we can make our replies more fun with the smileys,but may be there are some technical problems for adding the new feature though.

I really think having smileys for a mylot discussion is one brilliant idea. It is true indeed that there are times that we want to express how delighted we are about certain posts. Smileys are a perfect way to express these feelings, considering the fact that tags like LOL and Thank you really wouldnt be enough. Happy posting!

Well if there will be smileys then some user will respond to the discussion with simply smileys so it's good that there are no smileys .. We can't stop that user and all because of this the quality of posts will simply vanish which I don't want.. However I truely support smiley thingie :) .. but there should be some rules also which everyone have to follow

Sounds great yes they should have it on mylot

yup, smileys are great, i love to use 'em! hehe..it would be nice if mylot has smileys like msn/ym :D

I think it would be absolutely wonderful to have some little pictures similar to Smileys, but I think it would be the very best idea if mylot were to invite mylotters to submit smiley type icons of their own creation, then the icons on mylot would be truly original and different, and a reflection on the mylot factor.

i think they should, i use smileys in other forums as well and it would be great if mylot has them. i put them a lot in my responses.

Wake up lazy bones. Can't you see Mylot has listened and fufilled your wish since long. Lol

I have often thought that it would be nice to be able to use smileys in a discussion, as long as users didn't get carried away with them. I do think that if MyLot added them, they should be limited to just a basic few though. I would also like to see basic html tags allowed. There have been several times when I would have liked to express myself with either a smiley or the use of bolding or italics. It really isn't a necessity, but would be nice.

i forget if i responded this before,lol,yes,smiles are more direct and strong feelings than words,and topics with smiles or other expressions will be more colorful,and interesting.but i don't know if it will influence the speed of viewing the topic,or take more space,:) i just guess,coz i don't know about internet.

hi bluewings, i don't think that smileys or emoticon are really necessary here in mylot. i quite agree with the response above that we already use words to describe our thoughts and feelings about subject matters. But i do want mylot to have this feature since, it is kind of cute to see an image/icons that represents whatever you are feeling. Smileys are a nice visual graphics.