I have incorporated an emoticon system into the blog, so now it will be possible for everyone to express themselves here symbolically as well as verbally.
The primary means of getting a smiley on this blog is to put the * symbol around the key word. A list of smilies available on the blog is provided in the first comment. Some have alternative methods not shown here, partly because the method of getting them is quite common and partly in case anyone wants to have fun exploring what the system can do.
List of currently-available emoticons and what words to type to get them. Put asteriskes (*) around the words you want to appear as emoticons, otherwise they will appear as normal words.
Many of the emoticons are also available by typing in typical smiley codes. During my research on what "typical" smiley codes are, I discovered some rude ones (which are filtered in the same way as rude words are - this emoticon system is, after all, built largely from the blog's profanity filter).
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Sorry, it looks like there's a glitch in the system at the moment. I'll sort it out later.
List of currently-available emoticons and what words to type to get them. Put asteriskes (*) around the words you want to appear as emoticons, otherwise they will appear as normal words.
Many of the emoticons are also available by typing in typical smiley codes. During my research on what "typical" smiley codes are, I discovered some rude ones (which are filtered in the same way as rude words are - this emoticon system is, after all, built largely from the blog's profanity filter).
********** cheerful
*embarrassed* embarrassed
******** empath, mindpower
*********** happyrain, rain
*lacrimal* lacrimal, sad
*robotic* robotic
*shocked* shocked
*tongueblob* tongueblob, tongueincheek, joke