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what are the odds we can get a smiley counter? just so everyone knows who's cool enough to rack up a smiley tally. i'm going with spiral in the lead

what do you mean by smiley counter?

like the dunk counter, except everytime someone uses a smiley its documented

and why?

I believe it's a joke spiral - and if muhoosier260 would have used a smilie it may have been more apparent  :P

that exchange should make the message board hall of fame.  not good when you have to be told you're being made fun of.

what do you mean by a message board hall of fame?

;)

thank you rocky :) ;) :D ;D >:( :( :o 8) ??? ::) :P :-[ :-X :-\ :-* :'(

I've never actually felt akward after reading a thread....until now...

since I was bored.. and semi-interested.. and wanted to brush up on sql skills......
of the members with at least 50 posts..
muhoosier260 - you failed the prediction but not by much... Ziggy is our winner.. rocky (who felt compelled to "enlighten me" :P) is number two.. I am allll the way down to number 4  :D.. and muhoosier260, I colored your name in the table brown for you to find it easy since you were so interested.  By the way, multiple smiley's in one post did not cause the post to count more than once.. so being extra.. uh.. emotive had no influence on the results ;)

ZiggysFryBoy	55.95%
rocky_warrior	43.43%
BuzzWarrior	43.01%
spiral97	41.13%
IAmMarquette	40.40%
mu03eng	38.27%
Marquette84	35.63%
LastWarrior	32.98%
MarquetteFan94	30.00%
77ncaachamps	28.86%
TVDirector	28.47%
ChicosBailBonds	28.41%
StillAWarrior	28.13%
Tampa Warrior	28.07%
tweakers_suck	26.79%
muwarrior87	26.76%
WashDCWarrior	24.89%
State	24.39%
Warrior91	24.11%
maxpower773	21.98%
Eye	21.43%
mu_hilltopper	20.95%
DoubleMU0609	20.00%
MarquetteVol	19.23%
Djgoldnboy	18.27%
Chili	18.25%
Mayor McCheese	17.32%
MU71	16.28%
NYWarrior	16.21%
RawdogDX	15.38%
bma725	15.00%
Nukem2	14.06%
CTWarrior	13.98%
4everwarriors	13.95%
SoCalstu09	13.79%
DamonKeysContactLens	12.50%
dwaderoy2004	12.43%
PuertoRicanNightmare	11.79%
mufanatic	11.19%
NaivinRJohnson	11.11%
SoCalwarrior	11.06%
MUfan12	10.87%
TallTitan34	10.47%
Harrison	9.77%
AZ_Marquetter	9.52%
tower912	8.02%
muhoosier260	7.89%
ons20	7.55%
tj	7.55%
ecompt	7.14%
augoman	7.02%
spartan3186	6.49%
MUEng92	6.45%
Sir Lawrence	5.88%
herboturbo	4.55%
Murffieus	4.29%
MU gimp ONE	4.11%
MikeyT42	3.77%
MilTown	3.45%
Wade for President	3.45%
mviale	3.21%
rjm313	2.82%
marqptm	2.63%
77fan88warrior	1.96%

I am extremely proud to be second to last.

 8)

I only "smiley" when I'm half in the bag.  Hmmmm.........., guess I need more vodka. 

I'm very disapointed that i'm 8th...  >:(

thank you for the continued effort on this thread spiral. now everyone knows where everyone stands. how on earth did you find that out anyways

just two 1-line SQL queries with the results exported into excel and then some sorting, filtering, vlookuping, and forumlas :)  I *heart* databases and excel - you can do anything with them just gotta get the data in em first.

Not to boost my total or anything but  ;D

Hobbies.   Does any one out there have any? :-*

Quote from: tower912 on February 13, 2007, 12:47:53 PM
Hobbies.   Does any one out there have any? :-*

ohhhhhh now that's low mr. 8.02% :P

you guys just wish you were as emoticanal as me.  :P

Quote from: ZiggysFryBoy on February 13, 2007, 01:12:27 PM
you guys just wish you were as emoticanal as me.  :P

emotic-anal?  sounds veeery painful.. sorry, I'll pass ;)

I was shocked to see myself at 8.02 %.    :o    Who knew?

Quote from: spiral97 on February 13, 2007, 01:13:36 PM

Quote from: ZiggysFryBoy on February 13, 2007, 01:12:27 PM
you guys just wish you were as emoticanal as me.  :P

emotic-anal?  sounds veeery painful.. sorry, I'll pass ;)

I actually grimaced in pain as I reread what I had typed..... :o

I'm actually really emoticon-al.  Now leave me alone.

Quote from: spiral97 on February 12, 2007, 07:48:58 PM
...of the members with at least 50 posts...

StillAWarrior

28.13%

Probably not a good idea to pick a fight with a computer genius, but I question your numbers.  I thought that number seemed high for me because I didn't think I used smileys that often.  Granted, it's probably my mistake, and you'll explain everything to me to show me where I'm wrong.

Looking back at my posts (it's easy enough to do) I see that I have 128 posts (even though the site lists me at 121).  In those posts, I only noticed 13 times that I used a smiley (and another six times that I quoted a smiley).  That's just barely more than 10%.  To reach the 28.13% figure you listed, I'd need to have smileys in 36 posts.  I'm not even close.

Am I missing something?

Edited to add:  I didn't check this, but I'm wondering if the higher number would reflect posts in which I am quoted that also have a smiley (either one I put in originally or that the person quoting me put in).

im impressed i made the board at all.  i don't remember using any smiley faces.  i guess that is what happens when you do drunk message boarding.

Quote from: StillAWarrior on February 13, 2007, 04:40:57 PM
Probably not a good idea to pick a fight with a computer genius,

you're probably right.. good thing for you, I'm not one ;)

Quote from: StillAWarrior on February 13, 2007, 04:40:57 PM
but I question your numbers.

and somebody above implied _I_ didn't have a hobby... geesh... :P (just to get keep my frequency up)

This is definitely a serious concern you bring up.  I swear to you, I WILL get to the bottom of this.  Answers WILL be had.  We shall be executing a FULL Florida style recount and even pregnant smileys shall be taken into account.  Justice WILL prevail!!!  Unfortunately, it'll have to wait til tonight when I get home.  Look for a FULL report in a few hours.

Quote from: StillAWarrior on February 13, 2007, 04:40:57 PM
Edited to add:  I didn't check this, but I'm wondering if the higher number would reflect posts in which I am quoted that also have a smiley (either one I put in originally or that the person quoting me put in).

Hmm.. I believe that if you quoted someone else and that quote had a smiley in it, it count towards your smiley count - only fair since you are, after all, propagating the smiley population of this universe.  If you can't practice safe quoting then.. well.. you must be responsible for the consequences.

Quote from: spiral97 on February 13, 2007, 05:41:52 PM

Quote from: StillAWarrior on February 13, 2007, 04:40:57 PM
Edited to add:  I didn't check this, but I'm wondering if the higher number would reflect posts in which I am quoted that also have a smiley (either one I put in originally or that the person quoting me put in).

Hmm.. I believe that if you quoted someone else and that quote had a smiley in it, it count towards your smiley count - only fair since you are, after all, propagating the smiley population of this universe.  If you can't practice safe quoting then.. well.. you must be responsible for the consequences.

No, no, no.  I'm talking about when I post a perfectly nice, smiley free comment, and some smiley freak quotes me in his post and puts smileys in it (kind of like your last post).  Do I get charged with a smiley for that?  Or, if I post another intelligent, smileyless post, and somebody else quotes both me and some smiley maniac, do I get charged for that?  Unfair!

I agree with you on the safe posting issue.  I'll have to make sure I "scrub" the posts that I quote.

Quote from: StillAWarrior on February 13, 2007, 06:00:40 PM

Quote from: spiral97 on February 13, 2007, 05:41:52 PM

Quote from: StillAWarrior on February 13, 2007, 04:40:57 PM
Edited to add:  I didn't check this, but I'm wondering if the higher number would reflect posts in which I am quoted that also have a smiley (either one I put in originally or that the person quoting me put in).

Hmm.. I believe that if you quoted someone else and that quote had a smiley in it, it count towards your smiley count - only fair since you are, after all, propagating the smiley population of this universe.  If you can't practice safe quoting then.. well.. you must be responsible for the consequences.

No, no, no.  I'm talking about when I post a perfectly nice, smiley free comment, and some smiley freak quotes me in his post and puts smileys in it (kind of like your last post).  Do I get charged with a smiley for that?  Or, if I post another intelligent, smileyless post, and somebody else quotes both me and some smiley maniac, do I get charged for that?  Unfair!

I agree with you on the safe posting issue.  I'll have to make sure I "scrub" the posts that I quote.

you mean like this???    :-*

ahha... the mystery reveals itself....
problem was my search was case-insensitive.. (how unpolitically correct of me!!)
further, the posts are stored in html... and things like ;d happen often enough to throw off the results... however if I do a case-sensitive search for smiley codes (like ;D - which is ';' followed by a 'D') then I eliminate those... I learned myself sumthin new thanks to mr. excuse-me-14.62% (new and lone member of the poster enthusiast of the day club, but just for today) :P.

Without further ado, here is the updated (and CORRECT) table.  Note that relative standings didn't really change much.. but percentages did.

ZiggysFryBoy	55.06%
BuzzWarrior	40.86%
rocky_warrior	37.25%
spiral97	37.20%
IAmMarquette	36.00%
mu03eng	34.57%
LastWarrior	28.34%
tweakers_suck	25.00%
TVDirector	24.46%
77ncaachamps	24.10%
Tampa Warrior	22.81%
ChicosBailBonds	21.95%
muwarrior87	21.13%
MarquetteFan94	20.00%
MarquetteVol	17.31%
Mayor McCheese	16.15%
State	15.85%
Marquette84	15.73%
Chili	15.15%
WashDCWarrior	15.09%
StillAWarrior	14.62%
Nukem2	14.06%
DoubleMU0609	13.92%
Warrior91	13.39%
4everwarriors	12.59%
NYWarrior	12.33%
TallTitan34	10.34%
mufanatic	9.46%
SoCalstu09	9.20%
Djgoldnboy	9.17%
tower912	9.15%
Eye	8.93%
Harrison	8.21%
SoCalwarrior	8.20%
mu_hilltopper	7.94%
MUEng92	7.81%
muhoosier260	6.49%
RawdogDX	5.77%
MUfan12	5.26%
bma725	5.00%
MU71	4.65%
MU gimp ONE	4.00%
dwaderoy2004	3.95%
ons20	3.64%
DamonKeysContactLens	3.57%
Wade for President	3.45%
maxpower773	3.30%
mviale	3.21%
CTWarrior	3.19%
AZ_Marquetter	3.17%
NaivinRJohnson	3.07%
spartan3186	2.56%
ecompt	2.53%
PuertoRicanNightmare	2.16%
77fan88warrior	1.92%
augoman	1.67%
rjm313	1.41%
marqptm	1.22%
MilTown	1.11%
Sir Lawrence	0.81%

oh - and to answer your question more fully - someone else quoting you has no effect on your smiley count no matter what they do inside the quotes.
however, you quoting someone else will get credit for any smileys that appear in the quoted section.

make sense?

spiral, can you do a break out by individual smiley?  I bet  :-\ hasn't been used much. 

Also, no TC stall offense from ZiggysFryBoy.  You get a lead, you keep it!

oh the humanity, grown men quabbling over smileys....

Quote from: muhoosier260 on February 13, 2007, 09:06:19 PM
oh the humanity, grown men quabbling over smileys....

serves you right for starting it....  ;D

hey hey.... I crack the top 25... now is this the AP or Coaches Poll  ;D

The smiley 'leader' is at 55%? What is this, the NBA eastern conference?

aaaaaand  ;D (gotta hold on to 5th)