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Sep 17, 2011, 01:51 PM
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Maybe this has been said before (I did bring up something that was already addressed in another thread
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Sep 17, 2011, 03:25 PM
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Not only that, Owl, but the people here are nicer too. Both the admins and the peeps. I've spent time on quite a number of other mental health forums where you really wouldn't want to go. Bad atmosphere. Bad attitudes. No mutual respect or consideration as between admins and peeps. Some were in the U.K., some were here.
PC is by far the homeiest, most comfortable, happiest, best run mental health site I've come across. It must have to do with DocJohn's personality, of which of course I know nothing at all. But that kind of thing trickles down from the top in almost all organizations, I've found. If DocJohn weren't doing the right thing, then the admins wouldn't be doing the right thing, and they do, consistently. Wish I had some money to contribute. It's the worthiest cause beside the Humane Society I've run across. Take care!
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Sep 17, 2011, 03:29 PM
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I like the user-friendliness of this site too. There are some minor accessibility issues if you have a disability and need to use adaptive tech, about which this thread encourages me to start another thread because I feel people are open to it. However, the main idea of this site is very good and I like it a lot. Thanks fo rsharing your opinion.
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Sep 17, 2011, 04:00 PM
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Sep 17, 2011, 04:14 PM
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3) Love the large collection of emoticons, especially the animated ones!
So me! I only wish they were listed in alphabetical order so I could find the ones I want to use more quickly.
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Sep 24, 2011, 11:39 AM
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That's an idea!  You're lucky you know the names of the ones you use, because for the most part I know what it looks like, but I'm not sure what it's called. I noticed the tongue out emoticon is called  , not "Stick out tongue". LOLMaybe they could be grouped by EMOTIONS?  All the happy ones together, the sad ones, etc. Then there's the party emoticons or neutral ones. I noticed they appear in a different order if I don't use the same machine all the time too.Some of them sort of look alike, and I get them mixed up sometimes!  I also love how a checkmark appears next to a thread I'm already subscribed to in the main page of the forums, AND how another icon showed I posted X number of times, the last post from mm/dd/yy.   |
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Sep 24, 2011, 01:52 PM
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Most of the smilies I use are from the same half dozen or so. When I'm looking for a different one I open the [More] window and maximize it (and wait a minute or two for the images to finish loading
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Sep 24, 2011, 02:13 PM
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"For me, half the fun is rummaging through them and seeing what-all is there that I might still want to use someday."
Yes, that is what I'm doing now - but sometimes I know exactly which one I want to use, and that is why alphabetical order would just make it easier/faster for me to find one. And maybe someone can answer this question - is there a way to add to the more list? Sometimes I can't find one that really expresses what I'm feeling.
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Sep 24, 2011, 02:24 PM
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Sep 24, 2011, 03:46 PM
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Care2connect has a better collection of EMOcions.
so I agree with everything but that said on emocions . |
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