Has anyone else had trouble with smilies?

[MouseWorshipin]

I cannot get the smilies to work. I get a FEW, but I can't get the "Showing 20 of 162 total. Show all smilies." thing to work!

I WANT MY SMILIES!!!!

I posted this in the tech support place and got zip.

 

[Aprille]

No problem here. But you made me go look and I discovered a bunch of cute bouncy ones I didn't even know we had!

 

[Tigger&Belle]

So what happens when you click on "more"? Sometimes when I click on it I'll see the dreaded red x's. I haven't had that happen in the last several days, though. I think it was yesterday I would click on one in the big smile list and it wouldn't show up, so I had to do a copy & paste of the code to the right of the smilie and that worked.

 

[Tigger&Belle]

The other thing could be the weather. Perhaps you're feeling depressed and just not in a smilie mood and it's showing in your smilies. Have you considered that possibility?

 

[KathyTX]

Clicking "more" should display the additional smilies in a separate pop-up window.

If nothing happens for you when you click "more", you probably have pop-ups disabled. Try enabling (you should be able to enable them just for www.disboards.com), and see if that helps.

(This has been asked and answered on the Tech Support forum a number of times recently. )

 

[MouseWorshipin]

Webmaster Kathy, you are my heroine!

I'm not going to ask for detailed instructions, just kind of a point in the right direction. Where would I find the thing about enabling pop-ups? Is that an XP thing, or a Norton thing?

And NO, T&B, I was in a fine mood until you suggested that I am the reason the smilies don't work. When I can get them to work, I'm sending you a mean one.

 

[Tigger&Belle]

I assume that you restarted your computer, too? When I have issues I usually assume that it's my computer, but sometimes it's probably server troubles, but I'm such a comptuter idiot I wouldn't know when the problem is on my end. "When in doubt, reboot" is a good motto (I have a lot of mottos!).

 

[KathyTX]

It's a web browser thing, that Norton or similar security package could be setting.

If you're using Norton Internet Security, the pop-up blocker is labeled "Ad Blocking".

Here's a link to a page that shows where you can turn off or adjust this if you're using Norton Internet Security/Personal Firewall: http://www.you-niversity.com/help/popup/popups.htm#norton

 

[Tigger&Belle]

Where would I find the thing about enabling pop-ups? Is that an XP thing, or a Norton thing?

Something that you might want to try as a short term thing to see if it works (and if so you can figure out what to do for a long term fix) is to hold down the control button while you push on "more". That will allow that pop-up.

That's one of the only things I know. I know only a few tricks, kind of like my dogs!

 

[Skatermom23]

Clicking "more" should display the additional smilies in a separate pop-up window.

If nothing happens for you when you click "more", you probably have pop-ups disabled. Try enabling (you should be able to enable them just for www.disboards.com), and see if that helps.

(This has been asked and answered on the Tech Support forum a number of times recently. )

I give up! I tried this and I still can't get all my smilies... I guess I have to make those 52 I have work for me!!!

 

[Skatermom23]

Something that you might want to try as a short term thing to see if it works (and if so you can figure out what to do for a long term fix) is to hold down the control button while you push on "more". That will allow that pop-up.

That's one of the only things I know. I know only a few tricks, kind of like my dogs!

That didn't work either! Good thing I have this one !!!!

 

[Tigger&Belle]

That didn't work either! Good thing I have this one !!!!

That's the important one!

You need to learn the code and then you can just type it in and have all the smilies! At least that's what my 15yo tells me.

 

[MouseWorshipin]

I give up. I've tried everything I can, no luck.

This is so depressing. I wish I knew the keystrokes. Then I could just type them in. Argh.

Skatermom gets 52. I get 20. Wah.

 

[MouseWorshipin]

A-ha!

If you click on smilies down at the very, very bottom of the page, in that little box that lists four things, one of which is IMG (?), you can get a list of the smilies and their keystrokes.

So now I can at least use them when I want to go to the trouble.

Now I just have to find one for T&B...

 

[Tigger&Belle]

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Now I just have to find one for T&B...

Um, I need to go, uh, scrub the cat's litterbox, or clean my blinds, or, um, I'll be back later, much later...