I've added a mass of new smilies tonight and this morning. Here's the changes, with the text shortcuts listed in parenthesis. (If you're not familiar with the shortcuts, simply replace the parenthesis with colons : .)
Additions:
(pirate2)
(piratewhip)
(yum) esp for the newly formed ERC (Experimental Recipe Club) to use with the existing 
(yuck)
(runaway)
(yawn) our existing yawn was changed to bored (see below)
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(grin) I couldn't resist this sparkling grin, but didn't want to replace the original unanimated one 
:yankchain: (yankchain)
(secret)
:shutup: (shutup)
(shh) this one's actually been there a few days, but I re-upped it so it'd appear next to these
(pout) I have forever been looking for a pout and this one looks like it'll fit the bill wonderfully!
(nod)
(reading) I actually like this better than our current 
(read) one, and it's smaller in file size too.*
Changes:
:bored: (bored) the shortcut for this smiley was changed from yawn to bored. If you type yawn, the new yawn smiley will be displayed instead.
(wave) the shortcut for this smiley was changed from waves to wave (no s on the end). I realized this was the only smiley shortcut using the third-person POV, so I changed it to first-person to stay consistent and (hopefully) make it easier to remember.**
Footnotes/Additional Questions:
* If everyone feels the same and likes the new one better, perhaps I'll delete (read) ???
** Though it would make for a longer list because it'd be in the All Smilies list twice, I could actually leave the (waves) shortcut in place in addition to (wave) if you think everyone will be screwing it up a lot. But I was hoping that most of the people who use the text shortcuts will see this message and agree that the newer shortcut is more consistent and thus should be easy enough to remember. But let me know how you feel...
The really astute out there might wonder that (thinking) and (waiting), and even the new (reading), while still in first-person, have -ing at the end. They're still first-person POV, so they are consistent there, but instead of present simple tense, they're using present progressive. The progressive (or continuous) tense tends to indicate an action that is still ongoing, which is often the case when using these verbs.
You hear someone say Waiting... in that sing-song voice when they're waiting on someone. Or when trying to decide on your next strategic swap move, they're Thinking....
Additions:
(pirate2) (piratewhip) (yum) esp for the newly formed ERC (Experimental Recipe Club) to use with the existing (yuck) (runaway) (yawn) our existing yawn was changed to bored (see below)
(grin) I couldn't resist this sparkling grin, but didn't want to replace the original unanimated one :yankchain: (yankchain)
(secret):shutup: (shutup)
(shh) this one's actually been there a few days, but I re-upped it so it'd appear next to these (pout) I have forever been looking for a pout and this one looks like it'll fit the bill wonderfully! (nod) (reading) I actually like this better than our current (read) one, and it's smaller in file size too.*Changes:
:bored: (bored) the shortcut for this smiley was changed from yawn to bored. If you type yawn, the new yawn smiley
will be displayed instead. (wave) the shortcut for this smiley was changed from waves to wave (no s on the end). I realized this was the only smiley shortcut using the third-person POV, so I changed it to first-person to stay consistent and (hopefully) make it easier to remember.**Footnotes/Additional Questions:
* If everyone feels the same and likes the new one better, perhaps I'll delete
(read) ???** Though it would make for a longer list because it'd be in the All Smilies list twice, I could actually leave the (waves) shortcut in place in addition to (wave) if you think everyone will be screwing it up a lot. But I was hoping that most of the people who use the text shortcuts will see this message and agree that the newer shortcut is more consistent and thus should be easy enough to remember. But let me know how you feel...
The really astute out there might wonder that (thinking) and (waiting), and even the new (reading), while still in first-person, have -ing at the end. They're still first-person POV, so they are consistent there, but instead of present simple tense, they're using present progressive. The progressive (or continuous) tense tends to indicate an action that is still ongoing, which is often the case when using these verbs.
You hear someone say Waiting... in that sing-song voice when they're waiting on someone. Or when trying to decide on your next strategic swap move, they're Thinking....
h34r: :luv:
(cool) was originally in that default set too, and it was deleted before I became admin here, so I re-upped it. So I might swap that for one or both of the other cool ones I came across, the winky version 
and non
since we have space allocated for that it anyway. (The space they use is minor really...) 
