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sunstep

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There is an addon that allows forum users to upload their own emoji, so they can use it pretty much everywhere (shoutout box, in a thread, on anyone's profile etc.)

How does it work?

It's pretty simple.

First, you go to the page where you can add an emoji:

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If I am right, the page should be located here.

Once you are on the page, you should see something like this (page may be looking different than what you see on this screenshot):

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Just give it a title, enter what text it should replace and then finally you can upload the image from either your own device or you can enter the url of the image on another website so it gets it from there.


example:

Smilie title: Steam Happy (This can really be anything, it doesn't make a difference)

Text to replace: steamhappy (the text that gets replaced to the emoji, do NOT put ": :" around the word, it automatically does that already.)

Upload new smilie: Just choose image from your device.

Result:
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And that's pretty much it, you can use the emoji now if everything is set up correctly.

For if you want to see the addon page:
Url to the addon: https://xenforo.com/community/resources/tl-user-smilies.6476/


If you visit the page, you can ignore the permissions section because it's not really relevant to regular users.
 
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Chris TCC

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this might be a good idea on paper, but I believe there is a reason as to why the emojis we have are pre-set.
(I'm speaking about trolls and inappropriate stuff)
I can imagine people easily uploading stuff like nudes, swastikas etc. and generally being a nuisance. I don't think this is a good idea unless there is a way to control this feature.
 

sunstep

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[BUMP]

That's all. I thought, after 8 months, that this thread could use a bump, honestly.
 

crikey

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If this gets implemented it will only go south real quick. I don't wanna imagine what I will see.
 

sunstep

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I can already use emoji's
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But why not make it easier by just having it built in.

It's just like discord nitro, everyone can use their own emoji without any moderation from blackwonder. I never saw that make anything go downhill.

If this gets implemented it will only go south real quick. I don't wanna imagine what I will see.
And this is on the basis of...?
 
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crikey

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It's just like discord nitro, everyone can use their own emoji without any moderation from blackwonder. I never saw that make anything go downhill.
And this is on the basis of...?
I'll address both these points in one sentence:

Players in-game are able to set custom sprays of whatever they want, causing us to constantly spend our time moderating them as people will set it as gore/porn/literally anything NSFW, and we do not need to waste any more time having to worry about people being able to set their own emojis to something NSFW.
 

Pienamai

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Players in-game are able to set custom sprays of whatever they want, causing us to constantly spend our time moderating them as people will set it as gore/porn/literally anything NSFW, and we do not need to waste any more time having to worry about people being able to set their own emojis to something NSFW
People can already upload nsfw images here as much as they want, yet I don't see us stopping people from uploading images
Nsfw emojis would just be the same but with extra steps
 

crikey

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People can already upload nsfw images here as much as they want, yet I don't see us stopping people from uploading images
As I have already told you, restricting images is infeasible, refusing to unrestrict emojis is.
 

Lala7586.

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It's a fun idea but as @TheCrappyCompletionist said there has to be a way to control this feature, so I would suggest that this got implemented as a donor perk (& maybe add an option to buy it with credits in-game).

This would reduce the amount of people with access to it ergo less people abusing it. This also eliminates the threat of people making new accounts to spam inappropriate emotes.

Then again, the dislike button was removed for a reason, so the chances of this getting implemented is very slim to begin with.
 

crikey

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It's a fun idea but as @TheCrappyCompletionist said there has to be a way to control this feature, so I would suggest that this got implemented as a donor perk (& maybe add an option to buy it with credits in-game).

This would reduce the amount of people with access to it ergo less people abusing it. This also eliminates the threat of people making new accounts to spam inappropriate emotes.

Then again, the dislike button was removed for a reason, so the chances of this getting implemented is very slim to begin with.
Even if it was a donator only thing I would still be largely against it. There is no need for this suggestion to be implemented. In addition, people already abuse donator, what's to say that they won't abuse emoji perms on the forums.
 

Lala7586.

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I'm sure there are some who will abuse it, I never said there wouldn't be any, however, I don't think that alone should be a factor as to why we shouldn't implement something unless it's a highway for massive abuse, which it isn't when we assign it to a single group; the donors.

As you yourself said so well, donors already have commands they can abuse, and it actually happens quite often, but that doesn't mean every donor is stripped away of those commands because the vast majority knows how to use them properly. There is also the fact that they have used money to get those perks and getting caught abusing them would just be a waste of money.

I don't understand what the downside is other than some might abuse it and that we staff might have another thing to monitor, but that's what we signed up for, no? It's a lazy excuse to say we shouldn't implement something because of that.

It's a fun idea and a fun little perk to give to those who donate to BlackWonder. If we make a rule with a clear definition of what's allowed and what's not, I don't see why we should add it, unless it's for the same reason the dislike button was removed, then there isn't much to say.
 

Pienamai

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I'd also just like to add, images are much more easily abusable, aren't they? To abuse emotes you'd have to first upload them as an emote and then spam that tiny image everywhere, where images can be uploaded at any size anywhere. Yet I don't see images perms being restricted
Additionally, if it would require donor, why would you pay to abuse when you can already do that for free with images
Just seems like an inconvenience for anyone who wants to troll
 

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