Let's get a 'happy' rep icon along with the sad. When Dicky tells us that Squirrel Girl is coming to TV, I don't just agree, nor am I laughing, he hasn't won anything, and my love for him is insufficiently specific. Instead, it makes me happy. Let me show that, and do so without words as nature intended. Besides, if we only have 'sad', Trump wins.
We need a snowflake rep Git 'er done, it'd be awesome and you know it Take the Baba tomato out, that's just stupid
Yeah, our rep icon choices are crap. I know you can't please everyone, but come on. We don't need the fantasy rainbow one AND the facepalm. And how often does the tldr one get used? Yet we don't have happy or mad?!?!?
We've got the 'love' one. Although I demand that when every time that someone clicks it, there appears an animated disco ball and the sweet, sweet voice of Barry White bellows out of the speakers.
Edit: to Captain X I get that, but we have limited space. We should have the most used ones available. Happy, sad, mad, and lol at a minimum. I'd like a more than baba, go fuck your self, etc. but that's a personal choice and like I said...ya can't please everyone. But our selection is terrible.
Seriously, though, when I made the selections, I tried to keep them all relevant. Agree and Disagree make complete sense, and should remain. I love the "Thank You" gold coin, and think it should stay. That one comes in handy quite often. The laugh smiley I think is perfect, because everyone on this board thinks they're a comedian. The Winner emoticon makes sense to me, though I guess some might not like it. Popcorn? Hell no that shouldn't go anywhere. We needed that one from day one, but when I saw people always using the popcorn emoticon, I figured we needed a popcorn comment option, and it gets used a lot. The love heart needs to stay, IMO. The sad emoticon, I think is good. It works particularly well for remembrance threads, or personal threads. The "Go Fuck Yourself" smiley is fine, but if we lost that it wouldn't bother me. The last 5 are redundant and all say the same thing, basically, but in all honesty, each had a reason to exist. The rainbow "Fantasy World" comment I like, because I like rainbows, but otherwise it's probably outlived its usefulness. I have a teh baba option, because it is teh baba, and that should stay. The TL;DR comment is a fun comment, and gets used often. It could go, though. Dumb can go. It is probably the most redundant option there. Facepalm says the same thing as "dumb" and "teh baba," but it does give the extra benefit of showing the utter amazement at the poster's apparent stupidity. Again, though, it could go. If we had to pick, I'd say "Go Fuck Yourself," "Fantasy World," "Dumb," and "TL;DR" could go, giving room for four new options.
Ones I'd like to see: or or or There's a ton of fun ones I like, but I know it'll be annoying if it gets super crowded.
I have a hard time giving up on any of these. Do we absolutely have to sacrifice one in order to just add a to the ?
That is probably the way to go. How can we communicate clearly if we only have one kind of exploding irony meter?
or or should replace The happy one should be The funny one should be replaced with should replace TL;DR as TL;DR is used in a lot of situations where it makes no sense or should be added. "That's a Wordforge post there."
It should be. You'd just iterate over each poster's stats of how many they've given out. Oh, three months? Maybe not over a constrained time period. I think the sense often intended is "shut up and go away", but you might be on to something there Anyway, I agree with John's revised list of which three are most expendable, but I don't feel the need to add any to the list of what we have. And I'm quite happy with how the "funny" looks.
I think if you queried on the date of the post they are attached to. Most people who aren't Flashy don't go back in time and rep old posts.