SMILIES pro versus con

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@keryx: I think full quotes are not necesary. Anyone can scroll up and read your post in it's entirity. I don't shorten quotes to change their meaning, I do it to specify which part I am responding to. If I had a comment on the entirity of your post I would have quoted it in full. I read, and understood your post, and not expressly acknowledging certain parts does not constitue a disagreement on my part with the parts I didn't quote. In other words, when I agree with you, there is no need to comment. A useful discussion arrives at an agreement by hashing out the points where a disagreement is percieved. It's a back-and-forth thing.

And again, what you are referring to with the suggestive phrase "protests so loudly" is that I have strong feelings against smilies or the use thereof, which I don't, as evidenced by the fact that I never said I did. If I had said that, you can quote me.

See, that's a joke. Get it? I'm turning the thing you got huffy about into a fun thing. As it turns out, fun and humor are subjective things. Different people will not experience them in the same way. And since we cannot read each other's minds theough the internet, nobody can determine whether another person is having fun or not, without projecting their own point-of-view on the other person.