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We don’t ordinarily promote user power or smiley suggestions via our blog or Twitter feeds. In fact, other than promoting our own suggestion once before, on the off chance that Xat staff will stumble upon it, we promote exclusively and only on our homepage (feeling the build up?).

Today we break that rule (there it is!). XatBlogs user Charles has what we (our gut actually) think is one of the more interesting power ideas that we’ve come across lately.

Idea: Hide authored Xat smiley codes

Explained: Xat is full of talented smiley gurus (“Ten”, wonderful “Mihay” (Hi Mihay!), etc…). They spend hours of their time coming up with interesting smiley/power code combinations only to have them ripped by other users once they’ve published the idea. Anyone and everyone can simply mouseover the smiley and take their code. So much for their hard work and originality.

Charles’s suggestion puts the power of “Copyright” into the hands of each author. When activated, this new power would disable the mouseover text that is typically displayed to each user; in essence protecting the long hours that went into creating the smile in the first place. So, when you do finally create you Mona Lisa of Xat smilies, no need to worry, you simply activate your power and whamo! Curious eyes will be met with absolutely zilch, zero, zippo, nil, nada, and nothing (err, or maybe some clever graphic)!

If you’re still not convinced of the genius behind the idea… don’t vote… don’t do anything… but do remember… everytime you copy someone else’s smiley code, a kitten somewhere is sacrificed.

VOTE NOW AND “SAVE A KITTEN”

Xat staff was on xat.com/help this morning for “unscheduled testing” of new features and smilies.

Some of the few new smilies submitted to us from xatblogs.com user iJayy are:

contempt, fedup, horror, look, ribbon, spin, tipsy

All of which are currently viewable on the Xatworld smiley generator.

Those users lucky enough to be in the chat were witness to both user defined colored smilies AND powers, num with capital letters, the ability to add both hands and hair to things like pig (not just yellow smilies), and a few other things.

Pay particular attention to the blog posts streaming into xatblogs.com right now. Many people were able to take excellent screenshots of what was going on.

Stay tuned for more and try out the Xatworld.com smiley generator now while it lasts.

We’re trying something new here, lend us your eyes and bare with us for just a moment.

What we’d like to do is to regularly start posting ideas for new Xat features and powers, create a forum for Xatworld users to do the same, and draw more attention to the xat.com/vote feature – all right here on the Xatworld blog.

Our first request, really more of a feature request, is something that we posted back in May of this year; “the ability to SEE what powers a user doesn’t have”. With the exception of a few positive comments, it sadly went unnoticed.

We think that having the powers window not only display what powers you  have, but also display those that you are missing, would be highly useful.

As it is, if someone asks, “Can you tell me what power I’m missing?”, one has to systematically go down the powers list comparing it to the users power list. How painful is that? :S

Here’s a screen of what we have in mind:

Guide:
Missing powers: faded out, no box
Powers that we have but not in use: no change (see Mod8 above)
Powers that we have in use: no change

That’s it!

Comment below and let us know what you think. If you’d like to support the idea more directly, please vote here by simply clicking on the number to the left of the idea.

Remember that the xat.com/vote feature can be used to suggest new powers, features, and also glitches. Help support Xat.com by using it!