I have neve never NEVER understood what the freaking faces mean... other than a smile code which I do understand given the universality around me about a smile being nice... I have never never been able to understand thos fr--fuc*ing faces!!!!!

Enough is enough!!! NO faces dimesnionality in the comment rating.

I have said.. and rest my case. Your honour.

Sincerly yours

Mr/Mrs Boldface.

A pleasure

I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude

That said, I'd prefer to see an emphasis on the cooler, cognitive dimensions of response, and faces seem to me to pull in the opposite direction. In other words, I hate the idea and it makes me angry! Besides, it would devalue html abuse and buffoonery.

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None of them look very happy.  I mean, I don't think anyone here will be mistaking me for Pollyanna, but . . .

I think I have just about mastered  
:)
;)  
:D  
:/  
:(
and
:O
But
;(  
and
;O
stil give me trouble.  

The Fates are kind.