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OK, so who broke the board while I was gone?
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Green toothy smiley face not worky.
Manually typed:
Clicked on icon to insert:
Seems like the board is trying to compensate for the capital D.
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Been inclined to wander... off the beaten track.
That's where there's thunder... and the wind shouts back.
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OK, right, so it works when there's more text. Let's try below with a ". "
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Been inclined to wander... off the beaten track.
That's where there's thunder... and the wind shouts back.
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Been inclined to wander... off the beaten track.
That's where there's thunder... and the wind shouts back.
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Huh ?
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Originally Posted by turtle777 
Huh ?
Try it on it's own with just a period (to get around the three-character minimum).
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Capital D
Lower Case d :d :d :d
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It’s not really ‘broken’, per se.
The problem is that lowercase “:d” is not converted to a smiley. At the same time, if you only include the smiley, manually typed out, and a period, your post consists of only uppercase letters, which the Auto-Policing Unit (APU) doesn’t like, so it turns everything into lowercase. Try making a post with only “ALL-UPPERCASE LETTERS IN IT”—it will be turned into “all-uppercase letters in it” automagically; and since that happens, smiley won’t convertey.
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Broken. I typed " . " and it made the capital "D" into a lowercase "d".
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Originally Posted by Railroader
Broken. I typed " . " and it made the capital "D" into a lowercase "d".
Not broken, just an unfortunate combination of rules.
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Can someone tell me whast the problem is / was ?
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Originally Posted by Laminar
Not broken, just an unfortunate combination of rules.
I don't think it was always that way though.
Seems like a recent change.
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Originally Posted by turtle777
Can someone tell me whast the problem is / was ?
Let's suppose that someone types something funny and you want to reply with just a green toothy smiley (rather than a lol). You have to do a period to get above the 3 character limit.
But then the software changes the capital D...
:D
...to a lower case d...
:d
...thus rendering the code needed for the smiley invalid.
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Originally Posted by Railroader
I don't think it was always that way though.
Seems like a recent change.
Yep, I'm pretty sure it's a recent change (hence the thread title!).
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I thought you just broke records.
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You didn't think it was that hard did you?
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The no-shouting rule has been around for quite a whle...
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It's the anti-caps rule, and i've found it works intermittently on emoticons.
In a show of maturity, I make sure to add the word **** to all my posts where the no caps screws me over.
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Originally Posted by subego
You didn't think it was that hard did you?
Now there's a solution.
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Originally Posted by Doofy
Now there's a solution.
Glad to help.
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Originally Posted by Doofy
Let's suppose that someone types something funny and you want to reply with just a green toothy smiley (rather than a lol). You have to do a period to get above the 3 character limit.
But then the software changes the capital D...
...to a lower case d...
:d
...thus rendering the code needed for the smiley invalid.
I guess I never noticed because my "-t" takes care of two characters, leaving me with plentiful options to post smileys and +1's
-t
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w_t_h?
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Originally Posted by turtle777
I guess I never noticed because my "-t" takes care of two characters, leaving me with plentiful options to post smileys and +1's
-t
No, not because your “-t” provides you with extra characters, but because your “-t” is a lowercase “-t”, not an uppercase “-T”. That way, your post contains both upper- and lowercase letters (the uppercase D and the lowercase t), and the shouting filter doesn’t do its thing. If you did just
“: D
-T”
instead, it would uncapitalise the d—and, ironically, the t as well, so you’d end up with the same lowercase “-t” that you need to make the smiley, but no smiley.
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^ See? No t, no smiley.
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Originally Posted by Oisín
^ See? No t, no smiley.
Ok, so WTF is that darn filter doing that ?
Just get rid of it altogether.
But at any rate, I *NEVR* had problems, so I guess MacNN likes me
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It’s there to get rid of annoying all-caps posts. Newbies who don’t know what a caps lock key is, or how to disable it (or just simply like the look of EVERY SINGLE POST WRITTEN LIKE THIS FROM START TO STOP).
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Lowercase: .:d
Uppercase:
edit- holy crap, it is broken!
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