For all of you grammar/punctuation nazis. I'm going to settle this for once and for all. I've always seen a lot of people use a smiley like it was a full stop, and other people put a full stop, and then a smiley.

Which one is correct?

Have a nice day
Have a nice day.

What about a smiley and then a full stop?

Have a nice day .

I like the no-full-stop version, as if the smiley was the full stop.

I think Matthew needs to implement garbage collection for all these useless threads.

It's not useless to me
(And here it happens again).

I guess you could add an exclamation mark too; like...

Have a nice day !

Those people are stupid.

^ This. Smileys are meant to add an emotional hint towards the tone of the preceding sentence(s). They aren't punctuation themselves.

Thanks, now my mind is settled. I find it weird to use a smiley like a full stop, maybe just because it resemebles a big dot.

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More annoying than people who use smileys as full stops are people who are unable to understand a written joke as such wihtout a smiley.

This post is not humorous in content.

Like people who do rude things and then try to defuse the response with "Just kidding"?

Why not just replace letters with smilies?

:o:-X???

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errr, is there a limit to how many smilies you can put in one post?

I miss the smiley face that you could see in an old telecommunication program like Procomm. Artwork produce by people in ANSI graphics was fun to look at too on an old BBS.

Before or after the punctuation; it's situational. Never in place of it.

I do hope so.

I've often wondered how big his hardrives are. Must feel quite a responsibility to have what must be one of the worlds biggest resources for game development knowledge.

Smileys adlibs!

It's not the size of your harddrives, it's the gigabits of throughput. I always thought it was smileys then sentence ending punctuation. The smileys were only used for emphasis, not punctuation.

De gustibus non est disputandum

“There is no disputing about tastes" - Arthur Kalliokoski.

I guess not, but some foods are tasty!

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Gosh, guess I could use that.

Ignore bamccaig, and just put quote tags around the post. 99% of the time, a.cc will find the right post to link to. He just likes to be approximately 8 times as verbose as he has to be.

8 is a good 2-to-the-n^th...

I'm going to start taxing smileys, and internet acronyms such as "WTF", "L O L", and "RTFM".

p.s. why does {'L', 'O', 'L'} automagically turn into a smiley face? You are creative, sir Matthew.

I'm stupid! It does not.

It doesn't turn into, "I'm dumb!" anymore?

The other way was funnier though. >:) Also, why has the evil grin smiley that somebody created a couple of years ago not been adopted? It's just so perfectly awesome.

Thank you, thank you.

Err, is it random?

I've come to like >:-E~~~ as a good smiley for many rage-ful situations.

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BTW a true grammar Nazi doesn't use smiley's.

I belive l o l () and R O F L () are different.

2:)GC

Conan O'brien wanking.

Undefined reference to 'wanking'.

Wanking? Some American you are.

We really need the evil grin smiley. It's too convenient for some situations.

Sorry, just gotta try this random smiley stuff, (lol), (rofl). Come on, these should be replaced by I'm dumb! (I fell for that one in my first posts).

Also, I've seen in another forum "plz" replaced by "Plz bitch, slap me!".

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