I hate smilies.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Hate, hate, hate, hate, hate smilies, especially when text I enter in a post gets turned into smilies.

Is it possible for DU to make available a command that disables the smiley generator in text? Sort of a [nosmiley][/no smiley] thing?

Yeah, I know what's coming.



Source: https://condenaststore.com/featured/new-yorker-september-26th-2016-roz-chast.html

[chia]

1. 🙂

[mahatmakanejeeves]

2. I still laughed. Thanks, and good morning. NT

[chia]

5. A good morning to you too, and thanks for your good humor. :)

[progree]

3. Do you mean like when " immediately followed by )

i.e. ")   produces a   &quot
?

In case anyone is interested, there's a special trick to make it display ")
I do so by sticking a [/b] inside of it which gums up whatever is translating it into a &quot

and I used the same trick in the last line above to make it display [/b] , instead of having it simply disappear like formatting codes do.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

4. Oh, really? I end up turning the ) into a }.

I had a Bluesky address this morning that got hijacked. That happens to some Wikipedia addresses too.

Happy March.

[Wounded Bear]

6. I just add a space before the end parentheses...nt

[mahatmakanejeeves]

7. I've done that too. Thanks, and good afternoon. NT

[progree]

8. Oh, for sure. That's what I always do. I was just illustrating in #3 that there is a way to make something

that DU makes invisible or renders into something else like ") into &quot by the [/b] hack. Strictly for expository purposes. I learned that one from DUer Make7.

Very handy for showing the URL for a graphic that DU automatically renders as the graphic.

e.g.
https://i.imgur.com/S314Fmt.png

the above has the [/b] stuck in it, so it displays the URL rather than the graphic.

Without the [/b] thing, DU renders into

[Wounded Bear]

9. Reported for political content...

J/K

[progree]

10. 🤣🏆