Grin emoticon

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Dear MNHQ,

Could we go back to the old way of doing and only have it explicitly with the old tag? A couple of times in the last few weeks I've seen people attempt to do a sad face as : o ( and accidentally been presented with a grin, often in horrifically inappropriate circumstances.

Don't know if others feel the same? I have checked before posting with the most recent OP.

omfg I had no idea that had been changed

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:o

I could be insane (quite likely) but I thought in ye oldern days you could only do by typing [ grin ] - no room for error.

Many people do type : o ( for a sad face, having it come up as a grin is a bit I would normally expect : o to default to

I would have thought : D would be more appropriate for grin

Yes, agreed, that's how it works on Communicator at work for example.

Although of course as one would only ever use that for business chat one would have no need to do

It doesn't help that on MSN : o makes a shocked face. So quite often I use the shortcut : o because I spend far too much time on MSN because that's what I'm used to.

I think Wikipedia agrees with us, although I do still recall the day in the office when our big boss phoned someone and said "why have you sent me an email with a colon, hyphen and bracket next to each other?" [pause for explanation, boss tilts his head over to one side] "Oh, I see".

I have always done the [ grin ] thing but ordinarily in "internet life" : o would be shock and : D would be wide mouth grin wold it not?

And why is it only those that are short hand?

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oooo! :) :D

oh...

Will take a look at this and see what Tech can come up with.

Will take a look at this and see what Tech can come up with.