I only saw it for the first time a few weeks back, but goddamn. Alex might be an incredibly absent admin, but I'd take that over the complete desecration that MG was subjected to.
Emojis of the forum
- Thread starter Velokki
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stevexc
Well-Known Member
Last post in the book of fail? 7 months ago. Last post by Rocka Rollas? 7 months ago. Last time MG.org was worth visiting? 7 months ago, I assume.
Drew
Forum MVP
I can assure you, as someone in (admittedly, small) part responsible for the selection and arrangement of emojis, they're arranged in the highly scientific manner of order they were added, and selected based on the all-important criteria of what at the time struck us as funny.
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wheresthefbomb
Well-Known Member
Okay but don't get rid of the spongebob emoji I use that one!
There's always one!
When the first person came up with writing I bet there was some guy in the back like "some of us made it over a decade and a half without making funny shapes in the sand to communicate and could tell what we meant just fine!"
There's always one!
When the first person came up with writing I bet there was some guy in the back like "some of us made it over a decade and a half without making funny shapes in the sand to communicate and could tell what we meant just fine!"
Some of us still think that. Unga bunga!Okay but don't get rid of the spongebob emoji I use that one!
There's always one!
When the first person came up with writing I bet there was some guy in the back like "some of us made it over a decade and a half without making funny shapes in the sand to communicate and could tell what we meant just fine!"
Drew
Forum MVP
Wait, you mean you were being sarcastic?
Vince
Contributor
Clearly anyone complaining about 
doesn't get the joke.
doesn't get the joke.
Well, yeah. That's like asking anyone who registered in the past five years about "Hey Donnie" or the constant reposting of Firesoul.Clearly anyone complaining about
(Hardly grounds for getting rid of the
emoji though, of course. That shit stays.)
LostTheTone
Elegant Djentleman
If y'all want to keep the terrible emojis then fine, but could we at least get the actually usable ones moved from the very last row to the top row?
I'm just saying, it is unreasonably frustrating to scroll through acres of nonsense to find "smile" and "stick out tongue".
Honestly, I would respect you old timers a whole lot more if you had just said "Yeah, we purposely made them shit so people wouldn't use them". Discovering that behind each and every one of them is a story that concludes with someone deciding that they absolutely had to add this hilarious icon paints a bleak and, frankly, distressing picture of the history of this forum. Like, these are the kind of decisions that lead you to ask a friend if things are ok at home, because he's been laughing for a full minute and no-one else is and he's kinda crying too. Except that happened ten years ago, and y'all apparently stand by those choices which is... Is there a word for the feeling you got when you were a kid and watched Challenger take off and then explode and crash? That is how this feels.
I'm just saying, it is unreasonably frustrating to scroll through acres of nonsense to find "smile" and "stick out tongue".
Honestly, I would respect you old timers a whole lot more if you had just said "Yeah, we purposely made them shit so people wouldn't use them". Discovering that behind each and every one of them is a story that concludes with someone deciding that they absolutely had to add this hilarious icon paints a bleak and, frankly, distressing picture of the history of this forum. Like, these are the kind of decisions that lead you to ask a friend if things are ok at home, because he's been laughing for a full minute and no-one else is and he's kinda crying too. Except that happened ten years ago, and y'all apparently stand by those choices which is... Is there a word for the feeling you got when you were a kid and watched Challenger take off and then explode and crash? That is how this feels.
NUDE MANWell, yeah. That's like asking anyone who registered in the past five years about "Hey Donnie" or the constant reposting of Firesoul.
(Hardly grounds for getting rid of the
But i love this one 
it is so cute. 'Frantic'/'panic' is also usable.
This forum has the most fun variety of emojis of any forum i have used.
Everyone has different tastes. The fact that we can find many seemingly unusable emojis is evidence of a large and very good variety, it therefore also means that we can find many unusual and fun emojis that we love and that are not found anywhere else.
The current variety of emojis is technically harmless. I disagree with removing any, which would break the intended expression of existing posts. Choosing which to remove would be a political nighmare and would generate pointless argument. A waste of time.
I agree that a re-ordering would be very useful.
I find it exhausting searching through them, with the large and/or animated ones making the small ones inbetween hard to see or find.
My ordering suggestion:
*First order into size divisions small -> medium -> big.
*Then within each size division order to have the non-animated ones first.
This ordering would result in more visual clarity, and the commonly used and more normal ones appearing first.
it is so cute. 'Frantic'/'panic' is also usable.This forum has the most fun variety of emojis of any forum i have used.
Here is a different way to see this:
Everyone has different tastes. The fact that we can find many seemingly unusable emojis is evidence of a large and very good variety, it therefore also means that we can find many unusual and fun emojis that we love and that are not found anywhere else.
The current variety of emojis is technically harmless. I disagree with removing any, which would break the intended expression of existing posts. Choosing which to remove would be a political nighmare and would generate pointless argument. A waste of time.
I agree that a re-ordering would be very useful.
I find it exhausting searching through them, with the large and/or animated ones making the small ones inbetween hard to see or find.
My ordering suggestion:
*First order into size divisions small -> medium -> big.
*Then within each size division order to have the non-animated ones first.
This ordering would result in more visual clarity, and the commonly used and more normal ones appearing first.
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LostTheTone
Elegant Djentleman
This man has truth coming out of his fucking face.
No matter how true or untrue any of this is, in order to make any changes to the site, the person with access to make those changes would have to be available to make the changes. You'd be just about as likely to get a good result from praying to St. Isidore (the patron saint of forum emojis) than to get this request high enough up the site's chain of command to enact anything.
LostTheTone
Elegant Djentleman
If being pointless becomes a reason not to argue then this forum has lost its way...
Nu-uh!
Bloody_Inferno
Silence is Violence
Chri
-________-
I think the emojis are ok but I do miss public hangings eg the ban hammer gallery of disgrace.
Bring back hanging, that's what I say
Fuck, I forgot how much of a goldmine that thread was. Wasn't mehtab setting a record for frequently he made it in there?
Also, for people complaining that it's hard to get to the "useable" emojis you can just type them out like you normally would (difficult, I know). They still work the old fashioned way
Drew
Forum MVP
...the number of times I've typed ": lol :" in a text...Fuck, I forgot how much of a goldmine that thread was. Wasn't mehtab setting a record for frequently he made it in there?
Also, for people complaining that it's hard to get to the "useable" emojis you can just type them out like you normally would (difficult, I know). They still work the old fashioned way
Chri
-________-
...the number of times I've typed ": lol :" in a text...
It's a hard urge to fight, and I haven't even been on here nearly as long as you.
