Cool idea - In my opinion [: (For VIPS)

[Slowpoke]

A new VIP feature could be that you could upload your own Smilies! You would be limited to a certain number of them though, eg. 5 or 10 and before you could use them they would have to be approved by a (S)MOD/Admin. It would be good because the forum default avatars can get quite boring :). Opinions?

[Orangeesh]

200 members uploading 5-10 smilies
smods would commit suicide having to approve that many....

Like the idea though

[jesus]

We should just have more selection. :)

[Slowpoke]

Well 5 each. It wouldn't take long to approve them. Say if 30 got uploaded a day it would take minutes to approve them all. You just look at it, and approve or disapprove.. xD

[kk.]

Well 5 each. It wouldn't take long to approve them. Say if 30 got uploaded a day it would take minutes to approve them all. You just look at it, and approve or disapprove.. xD
true. You an say they will be approved within 12 - 48 hours.

[-Xiangu-]

Good idea! :Ocass14

[today]

i see no real point to that idea rly.. just use the img tags lmao

[lew!]

Yeh.. we could just use image tags, just a small img that is a smiley..

[Slowpoke]

i see no real point to that idea rly.. just use the img tags lmao


Yeh.. we could just use image tags, just a small img that is a smiley..

that means that you would have to upload the image, and paste the link in everytime you want to use it. It would be much easier if you type out your post then click a little link called, for example, 'custom emotions' and bobs your uncle, you've got your emotions :)!

[le harry]

personally i think it's a waste of time but it could work i guess.

[nvrspk4]

1) Is it possible?
2) We would have to host a couple thousand smilies on the forum to be able to do that.

Expanding on number two, we would have to keep every smiley ever made saved to the Habbox Server. They'd have to be saved on the server so that you couldn't change the imagepath and put something vulgar there, and they'd need to stay on the forum so that little red x's didn't pop up everywhere after people lost VIP ;)

[@xP]

It is possible.

You can make different smilie categories on the Admin CP. :)

[e5]

1) Is it possible?
2) We would have to host a couple thousand smilies on the forum to be able to do that.

Expanding on number two, we would have to keep every smiley ever made saved to the Habbox Server. They'd have to be saved on the server so that you couldn't change the imagepath and put something vulgar there, and they'd need to stay on the forum so that little red x's didn't pop up everywhere after people lost VIP ;)
Why can't we just go along with someones idea... theres nothing bad about it.

[Daphne,]

Yeah, probably not totally worth it, however perhaps a wider selection of pre-mades?
:rolleyes:

[Pyroka]

Thats a pretty good idea. :) I also think VIPs should have the power to make a certain style default for all their posts, like someone mentioned once.

[GommeInc]

Hmmm, it's an OK idea but it won't work. When someone's VIP runs out what happens to the smiley? If it stays then the VIP member, who is now a regular member, has a smiley he can use forever which is a good thing, but is it necessarily good for Habbox?

Too many smilies ruin a forum. If you want to be different, save the image tag to your user notes or keep photobucket open on another page/tag.

It's one extra job for the VIP editor which already has far too many jobs. Unless you ask whoever is in charge of Senior Management or 'Assistant General Managers' to hire someone to help out the VIP area.

[Pyroka]

Well uhm... It'd be like a namechange really, since you keep that even though youre non-VIP. How about when their VIP runs out, they have to remove a certain amount of smiles and keep the rest? Like, they have 5, and they have to remove 3 since they're an ex-VIP now. Sound good?

Too many smilies does ruin a forum... I guess. Hm, now you say that I'm not that sure. As for the VIP editor, there's a big need for another one.

[GommeInc]

Well uhm... It'd be like a namechange really, since you keep that even though youre non-VIP. How about when their VIP runs out, they have to remove a certain amount of smiles and keep the rest? Like, they have 5, and they have to remove 3 since they're an ex-VIP now. Sound good?

Too many smilies does ruin a forum... I guess. Hm, now you say that I'm not that sure. As for the VIP editor, there's a big need for another one.
Ah but smilies have to saved and take up space, while a name only takes a few bits of space (or less if the name is shorter than before) so they're different space wise :P It means alot of effort on the members and VIP editor side, which will cause aload of problems. I don't even think people use their own smilies all that often anyway. You'll need alot of members to want their own smilies for a change on here anyway :P

[Pyroka]

Yeah, I guess thats right. There is a need for a new VIP feature though, but management keep on dismissing ideas because they're either hacks, or they just can't be bothered adding them. it's seriously annoying.,

[nvrspk4]

Why can't we just go along with someones idea... theres nothing bad about it.

Did you even bother to read my post outlining the flaws with the idea before immediately deciding that management was simply being adversarial. Please, look before you post.


Yeah, probably not totally worth it, however perhaps a wider selection of pre-mades?
:rolleyes:

Now that, is a more plausible idea, that is something we can look into.


Thats a pretty good idea. :) I also think VIPs should have the power to make a certain style default for all their posts, like someone mentioned once.

That is a hack that might mess with code, I don't know as I'm not a techie, but if its inserted into the forum code itself it can be dangerous. Also, I don't believe there's a hack out for our current version for that. Finally, do you really want to see a myriad of colors everywhere you go? For example, I could customize my font as this:

HI GUYS!!!1

Then the next post

YO DUDEZ

Seeing posts in that and different colors would make it look really wierd around here and difficult to read unfortunately.


Well uhm... It'd be like a namechange really, since you keep that even though youre non-VIP. How about when their VIP runs out, they have to remove a certain amount of smiles and keep the rest? Like, they have 5, and they have to remove 3 since they're an ex-VIP now. Sound good?

Too many smilies does ruin a forum... I guess. Hm, now you say that I'm not that sure. As for the VIP editor, there's a big need for another one.

Then the other three would end up being deleted and there would still be red Xs all across.


Yeah, I guess thats right. There is a need for a new VIP feature though, but management keep on dismissing ideas because they're either hacks, or they just can't be bothered adding them. it's seriously annoying.,

I'm sorry to be extremely confrontational, but its really getting on my nerves that people are making these generalizations and jumping on bandwagons that are like HEY LETS BLAME THE MANAGEMENT FOR EVERY LITTLE THING THAT WE DON'T LIKE!! Hacks, fair enough, because we do use that argument, but can you please find me the last post where we said that we just can't be bothered adding a hack?

It really ticks me off because I actually spend time replying and thinking of legitimate responses to posts, and yet I have people replying TWO posts after me saying that there's nothing wrong with the idea and I'm just saying I'm not for it because of me being management and therefore resisting any possible change that could POSSIBLY benefit the members. Because I'm management of course, and therefore corrupt abusive inactive unproductive uncaring uncooperative unhelpful etc. etc.

:rolleyes:

[shizzle]

We should just have more selection. :)
Yeah, agreed.

[Jamesy]

Personally it's easier just to use tags to insert custom emoticons.

I steal half of mine from facepunch ;) [IMG]http://forums.facepunchstudios.com/images/smilies/4chan.gif

[Everlong]

You could just upload the ones you want to use and save the img tags in note pad then paste them in when you want to use them, pretty much the same as using the emoticon window.

[Moh]

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=115993& > Should also work on 3.6.8 :)

[Jamesy]

they won't install it for security reasons.