Newbie Questions

[Pseudonym]

Smilies - Not knocking the ones you've got, cos there is a great choice on here but why is there no :lol: smilie?

Also whats the policy on bad language? Is swearing allowed, are any words banned from use?

[Harry94]

There is a :rofl: smiley which turns into this,

Generally, swearing is allowed but not over the top stuff with swearing in every sentence. I dont swear on the forums, but I've seen a lot who do. A mod will correct me if I'm wrong.

[Pseudonym]

Cheers, its not like i'm planning on swearing in every post but sometime you need to vent you know. Especially if you're stuck with a certain part of a game and its really winding you up.

Just thought i'd ask cos i know there will probably be kids reading.

[ub4of]

Originally Posted by Pseudonym

Smilies - Not knocking the ones you've got, cos there is a great choice on here but why is there no :lol: smilie?

Also whats the policy on bad language? Is swearing allowed, are any words banned from use?

Yeah like harry said, the nearest to lol is :rofl:

2.0 Posting

• Please refrain from swearing in every sentence as we have younger members on the forums. The occasional swear word is fine.

[blackfalc0n]

You can use occasional swearing to disappointment in a game or something, but not directly to a member and nothing that could offend ethnicity/sexuality/gender just to point out.

As for :lol:, as everyone has said there's always :rofl:

[Pseudonym]

Originally Posted by blackfalc0n

You can use occasional swearing to disappointment in a game or something, but not directly to a member and nothing that could offend ethnicity/sexuality/gender just to point out.

As for :lol:, as everyone has said there's always :rofl:

Well am not gonna go around abusing anybody so thats not a worry.

What happens though when somethings funny but not enough to have me on the floor?

[CooperFyfe]

Originally Posted by Pseudonym

Well am not gonna go around abusing anybody so thats not a worry.

What happens though when somethings funny but not enough to have me on the floor?

Type "lol" or "haha"?

Or if you really wanted, you could link to an off-image site, such as:

[blackfalc0n]

Originally Posted by Pseudonym

Well am not gonna go around abusing anybody so thats not a worry.

What happens though when somethings funny but not enough to have me on the floor?

Just say 'lol,' lol.

[idloveacupoft]

lol
if you feel the need to swear, really profusely, over something, just use a lot of random non-letter characters instead of the actual letters.

Such as, god oh $%^&*£ god I &%$*%£ hate how %&*$£%& hard Wipeout is!!!
This is the less legible approach though

[BreadSkin]

We don't have a "lol" smilie, not sure why, though we really don't need one. If you want to use custom smilies, you can do that too.

As I'm pretty sure the TC got his answer, and we're just repeating the same answers over and over again...