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Comment author: [deleted] 15 February 2013 07:07:12AM 3 points [-]

I was once told that someone would upvote me iff I got rid of the smiley in my comment. (or perhaps it was an "lol")

Comment author: [deleted] 15 February 2013 01:27:22PM *  6 points [-]

I think I once saw a comment by someone stating that they had a policy of systematically downvoting all comments containing an emoticon, except exceptionally good ones.

Comment author: prase 15 February 2013 07:32:44PM 3 points [-]

Hope that wasn't me. My dislike for emoticons has somehow waned during recent years and sometimes I even use them myself when I want to be really sure that my interlocutor doesn't misinterpret me as being serious when I am not, but I am the sort of person that has commenting policies and it's not that improbable that this was one of them.

I still hate "lol" pretty passionately, however.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 15 February 2013 07:37:11PM 1 point [-]

I'm ok with LOL, unless it's someone LOLing at their own jokes.

Comment author: Desrtopa 20 February 2013 02:08:38PM 2 points [-]

I don't like lol, but I don't mind it too badly when it's being used where the person would genuinely be laughing out loud. When people use it as a placeholder or punctuation, which is often the case, I regard it as I would someone who actually laughs at inappropriate points in a conversation. Not positively to say the least.

Comment author: [deleted] 16 February 2013 02:15:01PM *  2 points [-]

I'm noticing that I like capital LOL more than lowercase lol: this is either because LOL is an acronym, or because I've just been primed by the two of you.

Comment author: Nisan 16 February 2013 07:36:23AM 1 point [-]

I heard that there's a user who downvotes all comments that don't have emoticons.

Comment author: [deleted] 16 February 2013 11:32:31AM 3 points [-]

o.O

(No, the point of this comment is not to test hypotheses about karma.)

Comment author: [deleted] 16 February 2013 02:17:50PM *  2 points [-]

Oh, and I've just remembered this:

In Web forums, do not abuse “smiley” and “HTML” features (when they are present). A smiley or two is usually OK, but colored fancy text tends to make people think you are lame. Seriously overusing smileys and color and fonts will make you come off like a giggly teenage girl, which is not generally a good idea unless you are more interested in sex than answers.

-- Eric S. Raymond and Rick Moen

(I won't comment about that.)

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 16 February 2013 02:21:03PM 0 points [-]

So, how do people feel about animated emoticons?

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 17 February 2013 02:50:48AM 10 points [-]

They have their place in certain forums, LW isn't one of those forums.

Comment author: jooyous 15 February 2013 07:10:04AM *  0 points [-]

That ... confuses me so much. Did you do it?

Comment author: [deleted] 15 February 2013 07:43:57AM 15 points [-]

Did you do it?

Yes.

I will openly second that the LW style feels rude to me, and the style that I've learned to write in while posting on here also feels rude.

For the person who asked for an example of a "nice" forum: The comments on TED talks always struck me as nice but instructive.

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