Was wondering if we could drop this down to two.


On several occasions, I've found that a simple "" is the best response I can give to someone noticing a point I've made or posting a great picture/idea. I cannot do this since the colon and the D only constitute 2 characters. It'd be different if spaces were counted, but they're not.

 

The problem is the search index would get WAY too big. It is set at 3 characters because there are WAY too many unimportant two-letter words for it to index to be effiecient. Most of these people have no reason to search for. Is, do, at, etc...

So, what I do is type "." and make the font color of the dot white when I want to leave just a smiley face

For example...

 

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See? I will look into this to see if it can be without the dot, though.

 

It's hard to search for 'SS,' though.

 

Yeah I understand the technical reason for limiting to 3 characters, but isn't there some way to limit indexing to keep common words from being indexed but still allow other more useful 2 character words to be used?

 

just put a space and a period after the smiley

 

Another solution would be changing to :mrgreen: or :grin:

 

Not from any vbulletin install I've ever worked with there isn't...