The use of the LOL button

Veli Voipio · 2025-05-04T07:34:20+00:00

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LOL means "Laugh Out Loud". Logos Forum comments template provides the button LOL. One may laugh friendly when someone says something witty, or laugh intentionally impolitely when someone says something stupid.

My question is how will the Logos Forum members react if someone uses the LOL button? Will they think it is a compliment or will they feel embarrassed?

Off topic, also testing the use of pictures: Is this hyrax laughing below? I took the picture in 1984 in Kenya.

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NichtnurBibelleser

I don't mind if there is a LOL button.

But I'd like to have a "Thank you" button which in my opinion doesn't express the same as the Like button and/or the Agree button.

(and a Smiley/Emoji banging against a wall as I mentioned earlier in order to confess to my user errors).

Michelle

hmm… interesting view, it's really hard to gauge base on different people's meter of humor.

What I saw : Le hyrax is scratching an itch 🙂

I use LOL button to express that I'm humored or find it funny, never to laugh at people in the intention of mocking nor banter.

GaoLu

"The Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart."

Readers may not discern what a LOL means, but God knows!

Michelle

Amen 😊

oh wait, now can we get an Amen button… ?and a Praise Jesus button, and a Hallelujah button! or Praise the Lord button. lol

Jan Krohn

Maybe just post something stupid, and see what happens.

DAL

Originally LOL meant Lots of Love 😂

Jan Krohn

Button works fine.

Antony Brennan

The thing missing with likes and LOLs is notifications. What is a like or a LOL if you don't know you got one. I would actively seek more LOLs if I received a notification each time. 🤣 Currently you have to go and look at all your posts to see if there are any likes, LOLs, agrees, etc. For me that reduces the value. Why like or LOL when the recipient will probably never know. 😱

DMB

Well, I clicked on the strange Egyptian Masonic? button …

DMB

And noticed Jason got rid of the little personal sayings, instead of reducing the font size.

EDIT: And they're back again!

Michelle

wait no? is it really masonic?

⁉️ABOMINATION

DMB

You can tell by the double-circle iris (images below from DuckDuck). Of course, all iris's are double-circle (minor point). I did guess right on Egyptian … Horus. Note that Antony's pair are not Horus'y.

Michelle

Get the stones! wait.. who's Anthony ?

(should I go back to all the post that I clicked that eye & remove it…) hmm…

DMB

Antony is right above me (in the thread).

Veli Voipio

The current emoji of LOL suggest a positive attitude. Could resemble an ancient Egyptian hieroglyph?

Antony Brennan

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1368396#Comment_1368396

I gave you a LOL for that 🤣 when you get enough LOLs you get a LOL badge, true story.

Antony Brennan

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1368385#Comment_1368385

and I heard that if you click the eye you involuntary start giving people secret handshakes

MJ. Smith

At my age, the first use I recall is for "little old ladies" as in "little old ladies in gold tenny runners"

Antony Brennan

I just Loll'd every post on this page, because I can. However, I found I could not LOL my own post, or I would.

Michelle

I lol for all ur post in this thread lol 😂

Michelle

can confirm 😂

And there's A👁️ on top of it all!!

Antony Brennan

🤩✨🤩

Aaron Hamilton

Except your profile is private, so you won't be able to show off your LOL prowess.

DMB

Hard to say. Much has to do with the flexibility of ancient writing tools. Definitely not Sumerian.

EastTN

Depends on context. If I intended to say something clever, then an LOL is a complement. If I didn't, then maybe not so much…

Michelle

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1368385#Comment_1368385

Based on the timeline of the whole forum chaos, I think the Insightful eye cursed the updates lol

Just stick to the bulb 💡 🤭

DMB

Hmmm. I don't even want to think about Horus's behaviors. Amulets were all the rage.

Light bulbs are just so … well, insightful.

GaoLu

Good definition for "infinite," as in "This is infinitely better."