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Hey, hang on...why has my post been hidden?

Was it thought to be 'offensive'?

What do people think the phrase:

'Come back' means when ending a sentence which is what the sentence in my post ended with?

If anyone *thinks* my post was offensive then they are totally and utterly wrong.

Personally, lil's post 15 with the sentence



With the * Yes, even Alfster got one!* took me back and I did consdier yiksing it as there is no reason to say they.

Lil - please explain what you mean by that comment as it seems, to me, very uncalled for.

I'll give you 24hours to explain what it means otherwise I will yikes the post as I find it offensive towards me.

Thank you.

My post was post 5.

i.e. the one with the link to what the 42 emoticon was.

As a reply to "Pastey: In Bacchus We Trust" : Yeah,I (kind of) thought that too,but it's not all the (or most of the) smileys are gone,it is just :42: If we take this as a list,for example "https://www.facebook.com/pages/How-to-make-chat-symbols/177737490684?sk=info",everything on this list works,except for the 42 one. (Believe me,I have tried :D) So this makes me think that whatever it is, it's done in purpose. (Or maybe I'm a bit paranoid ? :D)

As a reply to "Pastey: In Bacchus We Trust"

Yeah,I (kind of) thought that too,but it's not all the (or most of the) smileys are gone,it is just :42:
If we take this as a list,for example "http s://ww w.facebo ok.c om/pages/How-to-make-chat-symbols/177737490684?sk=info",everything on this list works,except the 42 one. (Believe me,I have tried :D) So this makes me think that whatever it is, it's done in purpose. (Or maybe I'm a bit paranoid ? :D)

Alfster,personally I do not think that your post was offensive :D Probably,it's just a misunderstanding :D

Indeed, Oolon.

Unfortunately, I doubt it will be back 'the moderators are never wrong'.

Postings made on Saturday nights are never
quite so clever on Sunday mornings.


~jwf~

Hi Alfster,

Post 15 was to let Oolon know that even 'Alfster' was once a newbie, and if you check your message centre I even welcomed you back personally on your return.

All newbies deserve respect for joining h2g2.com and endeavouring to become part of the Community.

If you feel my post deserves to be yikes'd that is your privilege. Should the Moderators uphold it I won't complain about it.

I will defend my newbies to the best of my ability within the House Rules.


lil.

Gentlemen,gentlemen,can we get back on topic,please :D ?
I'd very much like to hear your opinions about the subject,why would they remove the 42 emoticon only,and let the others stay ? Does that make any sense ?

>> Does that make any sense? <<

It probably does to anyone who bought FB stock.

That whole tower of cards is collapsing because
they are not at heart a community, just a big
website service that ignores individual rights
and tries to profit from the info they gather.

If I was a stockholder I would not allow a link
to another site like h2g2 which actually is what
FB only pretends to be.


~jwf~

That's *them" told.

Now, I don't know why FB retired that smiley - though I suspect Pastey's explanation makes sense - but I do know that smileys on *this* site never go away.

They just get rediscovered, reused, repurposed, misused, complained about, and added to.

DG
*Where's my smiley?*

Tinfoil hats are to be taken seriously, not things to be levitatious about.

I levitate regularly.

>>There was an interesting radio interview with John Lloyd the other week. He claimed that DNA had thought of a 'real' answer to life the universe and everything, but he died before he could tell his friends.

No, I refute that. That is absolute hogwash. Either DNA was having a laugh or John Lloyd is. Such revelations are, as is well documented, only possible in a small cafe in Rickmansworth, and he was living in LA at the time. There would have be something seriously wrong with the space-time continuum for the answer to have occurred to him there.




Geggs

I've got the podcast somewhere. Happy to transcribe Loyd's words, or send you an audio clip (if/when I find it). Loyd was being absolutely serious, though.

The only problem I'm currently having with Facebook is it has started addressing me by name..and asking nosy questions.

Isn't there a counterspell for that?

Question,

How was the 42 smiley created on FB in the first place? Or perhaps 'who' put it there is a better question.

It was probably Marvin the Maniacally Depressed Robot
who recognised a sinking ship when he saw one.

BTW, we never got any kind of robot smiley here.



~jwf~

<!> <?> how come I've never noticed that one before