The ever arrogant <wink> smiley
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AAAARRRRH!!! Who ye be callin' arrogant, ye scurvy dog?
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haha, great topic Chris- never thought about the
so much, although I have wondered sometimes if I've used it appropriately. I am a culprit; I guess my interpretation of it is that it is a smiling wink, such as one would use between very good friends in real life. To use your own example:"Yup, and if you skipped this and this, you could do it in half the time and it would be better"
Without the
it feels abrupt, cold.... you might even imagine the author smirking 
while hitting "post"! (now there's a smiley we don't need) However, to me it implies it was meant in a friendly buddy buddy way. Often I think the 
can be used instead in the sense of "I might be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that, etc, etc"The trouble with smileys is that it's never very clear whether the smiley represents the author or recipient or if they're being used sincerely or sarcastically. Otherwise a smiley based on this pic would be perfect for concluding corrections, but then that would really come over as condescending!
I completely take your point though that
can be seen as condescending, even sarcastic- in that sense perhaps we should just take the comical approach and complete corrections with 
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Wow, who knew there were so many winking animals out there? Maybe I just need to picture that pirate cat or the poor dog whose left ear always goes up when he winks instead of the conescending smile I currently envision.
::I'm thinking my head must be slightly mis-wired::
Chris
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that is for sure a good tricky one, Alan
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Here's an arrogant one...
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and much more beauty than Fredericks
)though Fredericks logo is unbeatable
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