Smiley Central "banners test".
 

We need your help.

Can anyone who uses “smiley central” animated images please make a post in here. Post anything you like but make sure you add one or two or three of their animations in your post but please do not add their Banner yourself.
We need to find out if “smiley central” are automatical adding unwanted Banners to our forums.
See image below.
Your help would be most appreciated with this.
Cheers.

I am only using Granny’s post here as an example, there are many posts containing the banners.
Thanks Granny.



http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/a...1&d=1133534410

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http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/15/15_1_70v.gif http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/36/36_11_21.gif http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/11/11_15_11.gif http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/36/36_31_2.gif http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/36/36_1_39.gif hello everyone

boo.....................







http://www.smileycentral.com/sig.jsp?pc=ZSzeb062&pp=ZN

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After having done a few more tests it looks like these advertising Banners are being added automatically without the poster being aware of it and this is a no no.
We will have decided on what we should do with these animated gif’s from “smiley Central"

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Thanks Granny….. you have been a great help with this and thanks for answering my pm’s.

The post you have made in this thread contains a banner that you don’t know about and cannot see.
Have a look at this screen capture I have done and you will see it. hehe

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<a href='http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb008_ZB' target='_blank'><img src='http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/36/36_9_5.gif' border=0></a>

this is the html code you get from smiley central when you post a smiley

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I think somewhere amongst that lot mick must be a hidden advertising banner from smiley central which gets displayed in the post.

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http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/36/36_1_30.gif http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/3/3_8_13.gif http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/3/3_8_1.gif http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/3/3_8_14.gif http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/3/3_8_9.gif http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/36/36_1_6.gif


So are they on my posts too? I can't see the banners on Grannys or anyone elses posts.








http://www.smileycentral.com/sig.jsp?pc=ZSzeb065&pp=ZN

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oo they are there i can see them it says (click here)....... i can't have smiley central on my comp it just does its head in .

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I can see them.

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The Banner is there. Smiley Central are being very sneaky by spamming the boards with advertising banners.

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Maybe it’s a case of…. only people who are not using Smiley Central see the adverts.

We will either have to stop using Smiley Central here at Accyweb or we all join Smiley Central so we don’t see the adds. Hehe

To be honest thou… we do not want the banners, so if anyone can come up with a fix that can be applied to the html prier to posting that will stop it for adding the banners then we can continue to use Smiley central. If not then……..it speaks for its self.

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Smiley central are being very sneaky in adding those banners. I suggest those that use smiley central email support and complain, or try to find a way to switch it off. Otherwise I am afraid the use of smiley central will have to be banned here at accyweb.

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So if you have Smiley central installed on your pc you wont see the banner but if you have not got it then you can see all the posts with the banner on

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I have seen it on other peoples posts but never my own, when we were playing with marquees about a year ago, I put one on site that used a different font to what was used on accyweb it looked as I thought it would to me but on site because that font wasn't used everything looked different.
Could they have loaded something onto the server?

In the mean time until Smiley (not Roy) resolve this problem I won't use them in any of my posts.

There are plenty of other free sites out there for animations, hopefully they won't cause these problems.

Or, they can offer Roy a decent return for advertising their product which should make us all happy.

http://www.animation-station.com/chr...ristmas003.gif Erm, It's not appearing now is it?

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Less, I have never seen the smiley central banner on any of your posts even though I believe you are an avid user :) Maybe you have found and de-selected the hidden setting for disabling the automated spamming... please tell...

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I was just about to say the same.
What are you doing differently to everyone else.

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That doesn't rule me out, people could have clicked on images I have put on and it by-passes things from there.

I did look through smilies licence, and they claim basically other than information so that they can pay people (not end users but webmasters), for advertising their products they took nor added anything from the user. (if you read closer you will see this is just a summary).

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In Less’s post he has this for the link:
in Tinkerbelle’s post she has this:
what is everyone else doing differently to Less?

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Well less didn't use smiley central for that last post, but I am sure he used to use them in most of his posts...but I don't remember seeing banners. It's only in the last couple of weeks or so that I have noticed them and been manually editing them out of various posts.. Perhaps this is a 'new feature'!

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See this thread,
http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/s...t=18225&page=2
Less posts a smileycentral smiley and there is no banner, but tinks and grannyclaret further down the page both sprout banners in the posts....

Less, do you just manually enter the images into an [ img ] tag instead of using the smiley central software?

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oops, never noticed. trust Less. hehe



http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/36/36_1_6.gif

To get the animated gif.. above. I have extracted this;
out of this, Tinkerbelles gif;
But I don’t suppose everyone will want to start messing with the code before posting. hehe
I trust there’s no Banner in my post.

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I have Smiley central on my tool bar and use that, click search click it's in.

Having said that sometimes I click an image and instead of importing it I get asked if I want to send it via email to a friend.

Sometimes even with threads I start instead of the image I get the address of the smiley appearing, sometimes I post it puts the image I want in then perhaps the next time it won't, though I must admit this has only been since the last update and I haven't mentioned anything because I thought it would be a glitch you would get round to sorting sorry if I should have let you know sooner!

If I post a reply in introduce yourself the insert image is missing so I can't put a smiley in. I thought this was just to stop new idiots from going mad, not plonkers like me!

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Another couple of quick thoughts,

1/ I use firefox and the download is different.

2/ maybe because I've used it for a while I'm using an older version and if I was to update it could happen to me, (I won't do anything about that just yet).

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it was less's posts that got me hooked on the smileys in the first place..he made his posts so funny..
when i press the click here on that sample.nothing happens.and like tinkerbelle i diddent know it was happening.
are we allowed to put just one smiley on ?that wouldent make a banner ,also i cant make them work on anything else BUT accy web :(

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Well there’s the answer Less! Firefox, yet again.

I installed the software for Smiley Central and did a few tests.

Test 1:
I inserted animated gif’s using internet explorer and everyone produced a Banner.
http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/s...ad.php?t=18345

Test 2:
I inserted animated gif’s using Firefox and there isn’t a Banner to be seen anywhere.
http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/s...ad.php?t=18347

Some how fireFox manages to filter out all the garbage and only leaves the actual link to the image.

So if anyone intends to use the Smiley Central animated gifs then please use Firefox for you browser.

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Aaahhh I see! Firefox rules! Cheeky bloody smiley central!

I'm not in a position to install and use Firefox yet, my PC is a bit of an owd girl so obviously I won't use the smiley gifs. :(

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(this is jaseyboy...) i beg to differ, on grannys pc, when we used internet explorer, we could see no banners. but now we have switched to firefox, the banners have arrived. and now, we cant get smileycentral to work on firefox!!!

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jaseyboy.
see this post:
http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/s...3&postcount=21
and this
http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/s...6&postcount=15

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I've only seen them recently in the posts. They never used to show up in the past.

Smiley central can be a bit of a pain sneaking things onto your PC that you don't want. I had it once in the past and got really fed up with the junk I got lumbered with. It was hard to get rid of it all.

If I post this, do I get a banner?

http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/36/36_19_5.gif

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No banner. what browser you using?

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This is because you had the smiley central software installed into your internet explorer, which automatically blocks the banners so you can't see that you have put them in. When you have moved to firefox you are seeing what everyone else can see who don't have the smiley software installed..

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I think you should get something, will this do?

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