Silly Eemoticon Change...?

[DandyDon]

I have often typed :eek: in Quick Reply when the :kiss2: was not available so now I have an untold number of posts with :eek: - but now they look like ? Changes the meaning of my posts all over huh...??

 

[HowardE]

I have often typed :eek: in Quick Reply when the :kiss2: was not available so now I have an untold number of posts with :eek: - but now they look like ? Changes the meaning of my posts all over huh...??

Are you saying that eek used to be a kissy face, and now someone switched it to be like eek?

I'm not sure who made this change, but I don't think they did it with the intention of messing up posts... At the same time. It looks like eek now yes?

FWIW - it appears as though the smiley was added a long time ago. It is a default smiley. Maybe an error corrected on the vBulletin side of things?

 

[DandyDon]

Are you saying that eek used to be a kissy face, and now someone switched it to be like eek?

I'm not sure who made this change, but I don't think they did it with the intention of messing up posts... At the same time. It looks like eek now yes?

FWIW - it appears as though the smiley was added a long time ago. It is a default smiley. Maybe an error corrected on the vBulletin side of things?

I don't want to get confused here, and cause more confusion, and now I have to wonder if I am getting a different visual than you for some reason - so let me use pics of what I see and saw...

For a very long long the eek smilie was one of bug eyes, open mouth, OMG expression like this:

Now eek shows up as a flaming mad smilie like this:

It did seem odd that the kiss2 smilie looks more like an OMG smilie than a kiss:

Edit: Glad I did it that way, as they look different on Chrome. I posted the thread after incurring the problem on Firefox. On Chrome eek looks like OMG and kiss2 looks like kiss. If some smilies look totally different on different browsers, wow - could be interested, or is it just my machine?

 

[bleeb]

Don, posting from Firefox, I'm not getting the same results as you. Seems to be behaving properly for me.

:eek: (looks like your OMG smilie)

:kiss2: :kiss2: (looks like the smooch animation)

Not seeing any flaming mad smilies.

 

[DandyDon]

Yeah I don't see the problem now, still on FF, haven't booted yet - so it might have been a temporary glitch? Thanks. looks good now.

I keep the big smilie window open and the problem was there too, gone after refresh.

 

[HowardE]

Ok. Now I'm totally confused... But all is good? Case closed I guess?

 

[DandyDon]

I don't know why it happened, but it seems back to normal. Thanks.