All smileys are not equal?

[Victor Galis]

I notice that if you type, (something:confused</b>:</b>) then it comes out (something). Clearly the smiley has been reduced to the status of a second-class smiley, and I for one believe that all smileys were created equal. Yes, I'm bored.

[Solver]

Exactly, you're bored, but when I was asking Stefu to make a please smiley, I typed:

Stefu, can we heave a smiley?

And yeah, got in the way.

[Locutus]

Yeah, it's somewhat annoying but it can easily be avoided with strategicaly placed '&ltb&gt&lt/b&gt's so it's not a big deal...

[Solver]

Why bother? Takes more time to type it, then, and no great idea behind it .

[Locutus]

It's only 7 characters

And HTML should be second nature for nerds like us

[Immortal Wombat]

only second nature? not first yet?

[Locutus]

No, that's SLIC of course

[Victor Galis]

How do you think I managed to type (something:confused</b>:</b>) without any smileys appearing? I'm just noting that the smiley takes precedence over the smiley

[Solver]

HTML second nature for me? Noo.... first go real programming languages, not HTML that you can learn in 2 hours .

[DarkCloud]

In that case how do you get the smilie to work- (if the above smilie worked read the following-) in htat case don't use brackets

[Victor Galis]

Confused smileys of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your... ummm... ... ...

[Shadowstrike]

"We, the people of Apolyton, do hereby proclaim that all smilieys are created equal, and that smileys constitute an important and irremovable part of our community. We hereby move that all smilys be give the priviledge of having an Apolyton account. All voting NAY, please walk though the white marble gate into the utopian green meadow. All voting YAY, please walk though the wrought iron gate to the left into the giant meat grinder.

[Victor Galis]

Aye... haha, fooled yaaargh(meat grinding noises).

[Victor Galis]

Hmm... that's a good way to vote.

All in against my position, signal this by shooting yourselves in the head... half way through... umm... I lost count we will have to start voting again, remember you must be alive at this point for your vote to count.

[Lucilla]

Originally posted by Locutus
Yeah, it's somewhat annoying but it can easily be avoided with strategicaly placed '&ltb&gt&lt/b&gt's so it's not a big deal...

For smileys, there's even a simpler solution: just place a space between the smiley and the bracket, and it will work ( )