Guide Emote Changed to Clothier in Old Message

Russ Guss Doodles

The Painter
My message in a thread made before the recent new emotes used to have a happy Guide or Dryad emote but has now been replaced with a Clothier.

I didn’t even think of it being misinterpreted that way lol. I’ve updated the title to be more clear. Also thanks for the support:clothierhappy:
I didn’t even think of it being misinterpreted that way lol. I’ve updated the title to be more clear. Also thanks for the support!:happy:

Based on the BBCode it was probably originally a Guide emote but I also started using Dryad emotes around that time so idk.

Edit: I figured out what was causing this. An exclamation mark is the character that can be used to make an NPC emote a Clothier (e.g. !:happy:). So this means certain guide emotes with an exclamation mark directly in front of them have unintentionally become Clothiers across the forums. Kind of a big oversight.
 
Last edited:
My message in a thread made before the recent new emotes used to have a happy Guide or Dryad emote but has now been replaced with a Clothier.


I didn’t even think of it being misinterpreted that way lol. I’ve updated the title to be more clear. Also thanks for the support!:happy:

Based on the BBCode it was probably originally a Guide emote but I also started using Dryad emotes around that time so idk.

Edit: I figured out what was causing this. An exclamation mark is the character that can be used to make an NPC emote a Clothier (e.g. !:happy:). So this means certain guide emotes with an exclamation mark directly in front of them have unintentionally become Clothiers across the forums. Kind of a big oversight.
Yes, that's correct that having an exclamation point will activate the clothier emotes. And at the time that I input them to the forums, I did think about what symbol to use (some of the best ones were already used so it was a bit of slim pickings, had to get creative), so there wasn't an oversight. :guidesmile:

I figured that people mostly put a space between the end of their sentence - whether it's completed with a period or with a question mark or with an exclamation mark - and the next thing they typed (whether that was an emote or a next sentence), so I went ahead with the exclamation mark.

From what I can see in search (although it's not absolutely conclusive), it hasn't affected much. Doing a search for clothierhappy comes up with only two hits (maybe three, now that I post this, ha). This post and the post when I initially announced new emotes were added. True, we aren't able to search explicitly for !:happy: (better searching is on the wish list), but things still seem fine as is.
 
Back
Top Bottom