2 hours ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

Wow, you've adapted. 

 

What is it, sad or confused or both? 

I followed the moderator advice - see above.

3 minutes ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

5 minutes ago, Orinoco said:

 

Just out of curiosity, why did you bother to post that ?

That’s clearly the facetious emoji !!!! 
 

 

3 hours ago, ed strong said:

How sad (no emoji) that Asean has gone 'woke' or whatever they call it.

 

Now you can only post positive replies or upvote the post.

 

No balance and no choice and cut out ANY opinion that does not support the poster.

 

Pathetic but unfortunately the world is going this way.  You can no longer take an opposing position, sad that the forum has taken this path.

.

 

Yes you can.

Heard of posting?

15 minutes ago, 473geo said:

Confused emoji 

 

How can posters promote the idea this helps, its very presence is confusing, the ability to guess the correct meaning from a varied list of possibilities would require some quite impressive skills 

????

2 minutes ago, richard_smith237 said:

That’s clearly the facetious emoji !!!! 
 

 

Yes, just wondered why he'd bother posting it 

3 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

????

????

7 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

Yes you can.

Heard of posting?

????

 

oh yes thank you....however i don't think its ideal / optimum for forum space to have to make a quoted reply every time you want to use the confused emoji.

I can understand what the Mods have done. There are an awful lot of wind-up merchants, and just plain nasty posters in this forum.

8 minutes ago, ed strong said:

????

 

oh yes thank you....however i don't think its ideal / optimum for forum space to have to make a quoted reply every time you want to use the confused emoji.

Just sit behind you computer and pull a real life confused face ?

38 minutes ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

Just out of curiosity, why did you bother to post that ?

I thought it was appropriate for a pompous prat.

 

Ps. Hows your post count doing for this thread.

For the subject that does not bother you.

you up on 50-60  yet ?

 

 

 

3 minutes ago, Orinoco said:

I thought it was appropriate for a pompous prat.

 

Ps. Hows your post count doing for this thread.

For the subject that does not bother you.

you up on 50 yet ?

 

 

Someone posted that they didn't appreciate people replying with just a "sad" emojis and you thought to yourself

*I will reply with a sad emoji*

Are you just trying to annoy people ?

That is why the emojis got removed , to stop people using them just to annoy others 

4 hours ago, ed strong said:

How sad (no emoji) that Asean has gone 'woke' or whatever they call it.

 

Now you can only post positive replies or upvote the post.

 

No balance and no choice and cut out ANY opinion that does not support the poster.

 

Pathetic but unfortunately the world is going this way.  You can no longer take an opposing position, sad that the forum has taken this path.

This is the strangest comment I've read on this article.

 

It's nothing to do with woke........ name calling is for the school yard. They've been removed because some members were abusing the system 

 

Childish behavior from a few members here, some have never grown up and now the good members who were using the sad and confused reactions in a professional manner will suffer. 

 

This is the sad world we live in, the miserable, pitiful, nasty few spoiling it for the rest. 

 

BTW, your opinion can still be voiced and you can post negative replies, type a message. 

 

2 minutes ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

Someone posted that they didn't appreciate people replying with just a "sad" emojis and you thought to yourself

*I will reply with a sad emoji*

Are you just trying to annoy people ?

That is why the emojis got removed , to stop people using them just to annoy others 

I it impossible to actively annoy anybody.

 

You, or other users, might feel annoyed. But that is up to you and not the person who writes something or clicks on something.

It's similar to a dog barking on the other side of the street. It might annoy you. But it's unlikely that the dog decided to annoy you.

 

1 minute ago, OneMoreFarang said:

I it impossible to actively annoy anybody.

 

You, or other users, might feel annoyed. But that is up to you and not the person who writes something or clicks on something.

It's similar to a dog barking on the other side of the street. It might annoy you. But it's unlikely that the dog decided to annoy you.

 

Why did he post the sad emooji then ?

32 minutes ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

Are you just trying to annoy people ?

 

Think it's evident they are doing that very well by themselves.

Maybe snowflakes should get over themselves.

 

You never answered my question. ( one more time )

Whats your post count on a subject that does not bother you.

I cant go counting them as, that would be classed as Stroking 

Come on do tell 60-70 ?

 

 

 

Just now, Orinoco said:

 

Think it's evident they are doing that very well by themselves.

Maybe snowflakes should get over themselves.

 

You never answered my question. ( one more time )

Whats your post count on a subject that does not bother you.

I cant go counting them as, that would be classed as Stroking 

Come on do tell 60-70 ?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You deliberately try to annoy people and then call them "snowflakes" when they get do annoyed ?

   Are you labelling them as "snowflakes" to annoy them even more ?

   You can see the post count in the top right hand corner , you don't need to count them individually 

4 minutes ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

You deliberately try to annoy people and then call them "snowflakes" when they get do annoyed ?

   Are you labelling them as "snowflakes" to annoy them even more ?

   You can see the post count in the top right hand corner , you don't need to count them individually 

Ok thank you.

46, nice one. ( think that qualifies as not bothered ) 

Anyone would think your trying to bait me now.

Mods, Mods, please get him. 

 

 

1 minute ago, Orinoco said:

Ok thank you.

46, nice one. ( think that qualifies as not bothered ) 

Anyone would think your trying to bait me now.

Mods, Mods, please get him. 

 

 

I did say that I am not really bothered about whether the emoojis are there are not , that was after some posters assumed that I was extremely upset and distraught aswell as being a weak sensitive  snowflake .

   And I just clarified that although I am in favour of them being removed, I am not that bothered either way .

   Posters often over react  and go to extremes . 

6 minutes ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

I did say that I am not really bothered about whether the emoojis are there are not , that was after some posters assumed that I was extremely upset and distraught aswell as being a weak sensitive  snowflake .

   And I just clarified that although I am in favour of them being removed, I am not that bothered either way .

   Posters often over react  and go to extremes . 

Nah, BS.

Why not just drop it and move on then. ?

1 minute ago, Orinoco said:

Nah, BS.

Why not just drop it and move on then. ?

We are having a discussion and the discussion hasn't run its course yet , 

52 minutes ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

BTW, your opinion can still be voiced and you can post negative replies, type a message

I’m not sure we can…

 

We who disagree get accused by some of stalking them when all we are doing is responding (with words) to comments with which we disagree, object, find daft or outrageously idiotic…..

 

If those same posters wrote intelligent and agreeable comments, they’d read favorable response…. Or a big pretty thumbs up to stroke their sensitive ego !!! 

 

 

 

 

Just now, Mac Mickmanus said:

We are having a discussion and the discussion hasn't run its course yet , 

Well it has for me.

Bye to you and the snowflakes.

Be careful in the real world someone may say,  Boo to you all.

 

1 minute ago, Orinoco said:

Well it has for me.

Bye to you and the snowflakes.

Be careful in the real world someone may say,  Boo to you all.

 

Honestly , stop over reacting . 

Its just two emojis been removed and its not such a serious matter and no ones THAT bothered by it .

   Any way Bye bye , are you going outside to pull faces at passers by trying to annoy them ?

3 minutes ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

9 minutes ago, Orinoco said:

Bye to you and the snowflakes.

Be careful in the real world someone may say,  Boo to you all.

Honestly , stop over reacting

Omg, it's clear who the offenders are, the stalkers, the abusers of the negative reactions. 

 

They're the members I'm reading with the childlike comments. 

 

On 9/11/2022 at 6:29 PM, SAFETY FIRST said:

I do miss the laugh reaction, why on earth would they remove that one.

i was getting too many ...............

The sad and confused both mostly looked like a constipated face. I never used them. I say we use the middle finger. Straight to the point.

14 minutes ago, rumak said:

On 9/11/2022 at 6:29 PM, SAFETY FIRST said:

I do miss the laugh reaction, why on earth would they remove that one.

i was getting too many ...............

Now I was thinking something similar. 

 

This forum, I posted an article earlier this year, the very first comment was the funniest ever (the most handsome foreigners), I couldn't stop laughing. 

The member, quite witty and deserving a laugh emoji, he had about 3000 laughs (or there abouts). 

 

I visited my post recently, he's had all his laughs removed. 

 

 

From my perspective, the reason the "sad" and "confused" icons were being "abused" was because there were not enough options.  If someone wrote something that was a sad story, that was the time to use the "sad" icon--not because you didn't like the post, but because you were saddened as you read it.  The reason it was abused was because there was no "thumbs down" icon that would clearly indicate a dislike of what was posted, rather than being sad at reading it. 

 

In short, the problem would be better solved by the addition of emoticons rather than by their subtraction.  I would suggest adding a thumbs-down icon, along with returning the sad and confused icons.

31 minutes ago, AsianAtHeart said:

From my perspective, the reason the "sad" and "confused" icons were being "abused" was because there were not enough options.  If someone wrote something that was a sad story, that was the time to use the "sad" icon--not because you didn't like the post, but because you were saddened as you read it.  The reason it was abused was because there was no "thumbs down" icon that would clearly indicate a dislike of what was posted, rather than being sad at reading it. 

 

In short, the problem would be better solved by the addition of emoticons rather than by their subtraction.  I would suggest adding a thumbs-down icon, along with returning the sad and confused icons.

Yes, but...

IMHO especially older people, including myself, are not used to lots of different emojis and stickers and thumbs whatever.

Some time ago I had a couple of LINE conversations with some girls. Sometimes, when I asked a question, I received an emoji as an answer. But what did it mean?

I learned today that this forum editor has an emoji button. Then a long list of emojis comes up. And we can even search by text for the emoji versions of i.e. "rolling eyes".

But when we read posts there is no reverse translation. I.e. what do those icons mean? ???? ???? ????  I have no idea!

A few thumbs up or down or laugh are easy to understand. But for many of them we, or at least I, need a dictionary.

 

Been here for over 11 years while originally  posting on visa rules and alike. 
I did notice some snarky remarks at times and thought that inappropriate. I noticed early on some comments with requests for sincere  reply’s  and thought that surely will stop many of the snarkers.
One day back in 2016 I stepped out into the World News forum.
Being a rookie at posting opinions on a forum, I became aquatinted with some commonly used verbiage  , trolling, deflect, flaming,off topic etc etc etc.

 I began to see the whole liberal world through the lens of  Reuters and cnn.

Nobody’s brought up  posting defensively ! There are times when posting can be interpreted  the wrong way, Im not allowed to mention the possible outcome! So using the recently deleted emoji’s were the next best thing , they were easy to get at ,without getting in trouble imop .
Now my profile page is practically bare , because of my political views I think I was given the majority of the deleted emoji’s! Thats ok with me , i didn't find them offensive.

Someone mentioned the thumbs down  in addition to the ones that are up now.There must be a dislike option imop