Well, laughey this time. Over in this post in Psychotherapy a member tries to make the ROTFLMAO smiley work but it ends up for her as just lower-case text between colons.

When I try it myself (by previewing a "reply" to her post), it doesn't matter whether I type in colon-ROTFLMAO-colon myself or click the animated icon in the smileys window; the software turns the uppercase text into lowercase and that's how it stays, colon-rotflmao-colon without turning into an emoticon.

I'm going to try it here now, all three ways:

:rotflmao: <--- typed in lowercase

<--- typed in uppercase

<--- inserted by clicking on image in smileys window

According to the preview, the first one is staying colon-lowercase-colon while the other two do turn into animated images. That's an interesting result but different from what was happening in the other thread -- and of course now I'm wondering if either result will have changed next time I look at the post.

I've used the ROTFLMAO many times in recent weeks and never had any trouble with it before.

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Well, how about that! In a later post in the same thread by another member, the ROTFLMAO works normally.