EDIT: just noticed what the thread was actually about lmao, oops; congrats for 1000 posts!
still wished that someone would actually fix that tho
Hello everyone. Today, I'd like to take a bit of your time to talk you about a problem I've had with this website for as long as I've been here. I promise it won't be long.
Any member of this website knows that a fundamental part of communicating with others is using words to express what you mean. Each word represents an idea, an abstract concept if you will. However, sometimes words are not enough. Sarcasm, for example, is not conveyed well with words because it depends a lot on the context and also the pronunciation of those words. Many other emotions and feelings cannot be expressed clearly through text.
That's why, in the 1980's, we invented a technology in order to convey those expressions: emoticons. Emoticons can be either sequences of characters or an icon that represents a face, a person or some other object or action. Here are some examples of such emoticons:
With the advancement of the UTF-8 standard, soon many character sequences were reserved for these emoticons, so nowadays they can be displayed simply by having a font that supported them in your computer. However, the Unicode Consortium never standarized exactly how these emoticons should look like, only what they should represent. This left those who are making the fonts to take some liberty into what each emoticon should look like.
This liberty has created what we call "emojis". While fairly popular, emojis differ depending on what platform or service you're using. This can lead to some frustration with communication, as exemplifyed below:
Hopefully you can understand the problem of typing a certain emoticon only for it to be converted into something else entirely. This conversion process can vastly change the expression you're trying to convey.
This gets us back to my original problem. There exists, in this website, one such case where emoticons might be unwillingly converted into emojis. I'm referring to a set called "Gooey". Gooey is a small set of emojis, with only 8 emojis total, even so it replaces many common expressions such as :P :( :) O.O :O and :D. This is unacceptable. I'd like to request for Gooey to have his emojis renamed, or even, for him to be entirely removed altogether.
If you're still unconvinced of the scope of this problem, I'd like to provide an additional argument: the Gooey character is not very popular or relatable. Here's an analysis of results for the character Gooey in most modern search engines, compared to other popular Nintendo characters:
That's why I'm making a petition. And this is where I need your support. If any of you are interested in having Gooey removed, please print this petition and sign it with your SMWC username and e-mail. Once we get enough signatures, I'll send this towards the administration so that they can formally recognize our request.
Anyone willing to back me up with more arguments against Gooey is welcome.
Thank you all for listening. Together, we can eliminate bad emojis from the internet.
XD
Any member of this website knows that a fundamental part of communicating with others is using words to express what you mean. Each word represents an idea, an abstract concept if you will. However, sometimes words are not enough. Sarcasm, for example, is not conveyed well with words because it depends a lot on the context and also the pronunciation of those words. Many other emotions and feelings cannot be expressed clearly through text.
That's why, in the 1980's, we invented a technology in order to convey those expressions: emoticons. Emoticons can be either sequences of characters or an icon that represents a face, a person or some other object or action. Here are some examples of such emoticons:
With the advancement of the UTF-8 standard, soon many character sequences were reserved for these emoticons, so nowadays they can be displayed simply by having a font that supported them in your computer. However, the Unicode Consortium never standarized exactly how these emoticons should look like, only what they should represent. This left those who are making the fonts to take some liberty into what each emoticon should look like.
This liberty has created what we call "emojis". While fairly popular, emojis differ depending on what platform or service you're using. This can lead to some frustration with communication, as exemplifyed below:
Hopefully you can understand the problem of typing a certain emoticon only for it to be converted into something else entirely. This conversion process can vastly change the expression you're trying to convey.
This gets us back to my original problem. There exists, in this website, one such case where emoticons might be unwillingly converted into emojis. I'm referring to a set called "Gooey". Gooey is a small set of emojis, with only 8 emojis total, even so it replaces many common expressions such as :P :( :) O.O :O and :D. This is unacceptable. I'd like to request for Gooey to have his emojis renamed, or even, for him to be entirely removed altogether.
If you're still unconvinced of the scope of this problem, I'd like to provide an additional argument: the Gooey character is not very popular or relatable. Here's an analysis of results for the character Gooey in most modern search engines, compared to other popular Nintendo characters:
That's why I'm making a petition. And this is where I need your support. If any of you are interested in having Gooey removed, please print this petition and sign it with your SMWC username and e-mail. Once we get enough signatures, I'll send this towards the administration so that they can formally recognize our request.
Anyone willing to back me up with more arguments against Gooey is welcome.
Thank you all for listening. Together, we can eliminate bad emojis from the internet.
XD