emoticon WTF? Skype Removes Emoticons

[Turk.]

By Frederic Lardinois Yesterday

It?s a sad day. As is so often the case, my copy editor was about to flip me the virtual bird on Skype and she couldn?t. Why? Because Microsoft is a prude.

It turns out, Skype has removed its emoticons for showing people the middle finger, as well as its animations for (wtf), (fubar) and the slightly odd (hollest) emoticon, which displayed a set of women?s legs with high heels.

This change apparently happened more than a month ago. According to Skype community manager ?Claudius,? the change was made because the shortcodes had ?the potential to offend some users.?

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[Hum]

I have noticed Neowin has removed some emoticons over the years ...

[Draconian Guppy]

they have? I thought they added moar

[LimeMaster]

I have noticed Neowin has removed some emoticons over the years ...

Yup, they have. 

 

The pint smiley is one of the ones that they sneakily removed. :o

[Guest]

Didn't even know they had this. :laugh: Personally I turn off emoticons whenever possible.

[pallipdrsn0]

Just saw these two images and thought they were pretty accurate

 

 

... but whoever did this image above should have stayed in school (at least in English class)

 

[cork1958]

Didn't even know they had this. :laugh: Personally I turn off emoticons whenever possible.

 

Yep,

I turn off emoticons also, so this thing on Skype wouldn't even come close to deserving a "WTF" to me!

 

Actually,

I think this might be the only sight I don't have emoticons turned off though! :wacko: