I think I once saw a comment by someone stating that they had a policy of systematically downvoting all comments containing an emoticon, except exceptionally good ones.
Hope that wasn’t me. My dislike for emoticons has somehow waned during recent years and sometimes I even use them myself when I want to be really sure that my interlocutor doesn’t misinterpret me as being serious when I am not, but I am the sort of person that has commenting policies and it’s not that improbable that this was one of them.
I don’t like lol, but I don’t mind it too badly when it’s being used where the person would genuinely be laughing out loud. When people use it as a placeholder or punctuation, which is often the case, I regard it as I would someone who actually laughs at inappropriate points in a conversation. Not positively to say the least.
I’m noticing that I like capital LOL more than lowercase lol: this is either because LOL is an acronym, or because I’ve just been primed by the two of you.
I think I once saw a comment by someone stating that they had a policy of systematically downvoting all comments containing an emoticon, except exceptionally good ones.
I heard that there’s a user who downvotes all comments that don’t have emoticons.
o.O
(No, the point of this comment is not to test hypotheses about karma.)
Hope that wasn’t me. My dislike for emoticons has somehow waned during recent years and sometimes I even use them myself when I want to be really sure that my interlocutor doesn’t misinterpret me as being serious when I am not, but I am the sort of person that has commenting policies and it’s not that improbable that this was one of them.
I still hate “lol” pretty passionately, however.
I’m ok with LOL, unless it’s someone LOLing at their own jokes.
I don’t like lol, but I don’t mind it too badly when it’s being used where the person would genuinely be laughing out loud. When people use it as a placeholder or punctuation, which is often the case, I regard it as I would someone who actually laughs at inappropriate points in a conversation. Not positively to say the least.
I’m noticing that I like capital LOL more than lowercase lol: this is either because LOL is an acronym, or because I’ve just been primed by the two of you.