:d specifically necessitates the mouth being closed, with the tongue sticking out upwards. So, not that.
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Tags are never generated automatically with capital letters. If we used the unicode character "Ⅾ" it would *look* like a capital letter D because that's how the symbol is shaped, but behind the scenes it wouldn't be capitalized.
It could also cause problems for people copying and pasting tags though, and without the alias would be very difficult to input.
unicogirl said:
I'm not a unicode expert.
But you're unicodegirl! Oh wait...
All kidding aside, I'm not too keen on that crappy looking :Ⅾ smiley alias. Why not just alias :d to grin or something or other that describes it instead of having a stupid smiley as a tag? Smiley tags are not that great anyway.
Because grin is already taken by something else. We'd have to come up with something else that accurately describes :D. Dunno, wide_smile?
how about wide-open_smile?
The tag itself seems to have been used correctly.
But it does remind me of a tongue more than a mouth.
Jesus, just leave it. There's nothing wrong with emoticon tags. It's eminently clear by looking at the tag list that :d is supposed to be :D but got decapitalized. And searching for :D works just fine. Emoticons have a meaning beyond the facial expression they're supposed to be trying to depict. Actual emoticons are very limited in terms of possibility of variation, and thus images should only be tagged with emoticon tags where a person's expression is particularly reminiscent of a archetypal ":D" or "^_^" or whatever. It would lose all meaning if you were to alias it to a descriptive tag.
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