Get rid of emoticons....

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at least the ones that are, basically, ‘you are an idiot’.

The discontribute to civility.

Feel free to use that verb without citing me.

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I’ll take that as ill thought out support for my proposal.

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Let’s be honest… this is a good idea and it’ll never be taken seriously.

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Agreed.

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nah, if you can’t handle emoticons just stop looking at posts

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Which ones did you have in mind?

I’m not sure how editable the list is; there are hundreds in the extended list that I’ve never seen, nor do I expect to. I’d be in favour of a trimmed-down list.

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This is how Humean deals with things… he just says, “yeees, I’d be in favor of something like that”. And then you don’t hear from him again. It’s the same when you levy a pressing objection to something he has said… it’s like in those cartoons, you know, when the door slams, the car screeches out and you hear crickets chirping.

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My guess is that Humean doesn’t think that every perceived comfort and convenience, or lack thereof, of every whiner on this site, requires a call to battle stations, a state of emergency and a task force charged with avoiding disaster.

That’s just a guess, though.

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The rolleyes one is nice, if you don’t have it people will probably make their words more acidic to convey the same feeling. Also rolling eyes are more meant to say “Not this again” rather than “you are an idiot”.

Here are some ones I think he might mean.

:angry-banghead:

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Nor should he. That’d be an extreme on one side.

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Some threads I drop out of due to real-world interruptions, but I usually send a PM to the people involved. My apologies if that’s happened and I’ve missed you out.

Some just go round and round and round, with people using slippery definitions or repeatedly ignoring points and using repetitive cycles of argument, and I get bored. You’re not the worst offender here.

I don’t have any editing privileges on the forum software, but I do raise potential improvements with Carleas. I am not particularly good at reporting back, though, I’ll grant you that. I’m not a customer service kind of guy. Regarding the Academy, for example, I talked about it with Carleas, and he eventually came back directly to the thread with his comments.

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If I do that at all, you should point it out. Otherwise, don’t imply it by calling me “not the worst”.

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My thoughts exactly.

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]Some can be used also in non-toxic ways, however… :icon-rolleyes: :eusa-violin: :laughing: =; :open_mouth: ](*,) :banana-dance: are the ones I would eliminate first. Actually laughing in the middle is often used fine, but hey, I’ll leave it in - it can be used to mock.

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I suppose they could be against forum rules if they are misused. Or treated as what they often are - implicit insults or ad homs.

I mention them because in one thread it seemed like first there was emoticon jabbing, then came the language based insults. As it is now it’s like you are allowed to poke the other person in the side and when they blurt out something, they get teacher’s attention.

And even though I have used them sometimes - I don’t think in the ad hom insult way - I think they are aesthetically repulsive. I know they are standard forum fare, but really, how well do they fit in a philosophy forum. All these discusssions of quality show some community interest in raising the quality and reducing the chat room vibe. One way to do that is to take away these ugly little communication short cuts.

If people want to be cute, funny, ironic, cutting, etc…

make them do it in words.

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Who said anything about not being able to handle them? Please read and respond to what I write.

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so you’d prefer I mock you with words, Tipper?

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Well, that should be clear from my previous posts. If someone would rather not post with substance, mocking with words might actually show a little skill and even better avoids the little repulsive figures. And then perhaps the mods or even the mocker him or herself will find it hard not to notice what the mocker is doing.

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If my intention is to mock you, I’d hope you’d notice the mocking. If your claim is that emoticons somehow sap the substance away from a post, then it’s quite literally an impossible claim as they can only add to it. :smiley: