[Demonskid]

that one looks like a creeper too xD

[Lucid:]

:awesome:
I want my sinopa awesome face! ;U;

[Demonskid]

itd be :sawesome: OnO s for sinopa!

remember we has 3 winners :p gotta make it so we can use all 3 sets!

[Arikana]

Originally Posted by Ultima

Woooooo! >w< And thankies, Ari =D

You're welcome~ <3

[Lucid:]

What about.... :awesomes: ! :D

[Arikana]

I don't really care as long as my text emoticons won't be hindered with these image emoticons. XP

*hugs my text emoticons* >.>

[Lucid:]

That's the plan. Sometimes I just need a plain ol' :D to express my feelings.
Hot tip: using BB tags in the middle of your emote, for example, :[I][ /I]D, will cancel the image emote. I did that a lot before we disabled the old ugly image emotes.

[Arikana]

Eh, I use text emoticons all the time. I generally dislike image emoticons. XD
And I already knew that...trick...since I have to use it on other forums. >.> But thank goodness those will still be available here even after the winning emoticons are uploaded into the system.

[Lucid:]

I'm pretty sure it won't be necessary to use the trick, since most of us agree that we don't want to override text emotes. But it's good to know just in case. >.>

[Arikana]

Yeah, well other forums don't know that. So it's good that Tris at least knows.

*hugs my text emoticons once more* <3

[Demonskid]

yea every emote even the :D ones will be like :s:D: = that way nothing will interfere with just regular :D

[Arikana]

Why not cut out either the first and last colons or the middle and last colons for those ones so there's less to type for users who wish to use them. So instead of ':s:D', it'd be either 's:D' or ':sD' for the example you posted in your previous post.

[Coda]

Answer: For consistency. All emotes should start and end with matching characters (and it seems :: is the popular choice although I would have chosen [] or {} myself) in part to avoid accidentally matching real text, we've elected to use a prefix system for choosing an emote set, and then ":D" is the name of the emote.

That said, I would have probably leaned toward ":sgrin:" than ":s:D:". I'm not particularly worried about how long it is to type because I assume most users are going to end up clicking in the emoticon palette for all but the most common choices.

[Demonskid]

that one is more of a :sexcited: sinopa excited then a grin.. tho.. grin would be less funny to type x3

[Arikana]

*shrugs* Ah, I see. Okay, whatever. S'all fine with me.

[Ultima]

Yeah, I wasn't sure what to write for some of them =/
Like, is it better to have :8D: or :excited: ? ::): or :smile: ?
Idk, I just put whatever, you can fix them up if you guys want x.x