Smileys? Yea or Nay

[Ed Lecuyer]

With access to the back end of this forum, I can make a number of customizations. One that I have been considering is to disable "emoticons" or "smileys". For example:
  :'(

I'm personally not a big fan of them (and frankly find anything but a simple :-) rather annoying.)

But, I wanted to get the opinions of others in our online community.

Some other options I could disable include:
Glowing Text
And
Animated Banners
Thoughts?

[James Patten]

I notice SOME people seem to over use them.  However, for most of us I think they are a good indicator of mood or intent in the message.  I say we keep them (although if they could be disabled for certain users, I'd say do that).

[Stephen Hussar]

I notice SOME people seem to over use them.  However, for most of us I think they are a good indicator of mood or intent in the message.  I say we keep them (although if they could be disabled for certain users, I'd say do that).

Can't say it any better than that!

[Mike Fox]

James beat me to it. Sometimes a little smile after a somewhat sarcastic comment does "show" the mood. Overuse is very annoying though.

[Dave Buczkowski]

I agree with James. I don't use them because I haven't figured out out to use them yet... They can be overused. Banners and glow scrip should be disabled.
KD

[Dave Buczkowski]

On second thought (after reading recent postings) get rid of the Smileys.
KD

[Eric Bolton]

Some users need to have a daily limit on how many posts they can make. Like three a day instead of three on every thread. However I think that the smiles should be removed.

[John McNamara]

The "keep one or two smileys" option is ahead at the moment, and if it succeeds, I suppose the next question will be "which one or two smileys?" [imagine the  smiley of your choice placed here]

-John

[Ed Lecuyer]

The ones I intended on keeping are:
 

[Mike Fox]

What no  ? That makes me angry . Just kidding. Oh, should I have posted that in the fooling around topic?

[John McNamara]

The ones I intended on keeping are:
 

Is there a means to limit the number of smileys per post so that people don't put in 18 of the authorized smileys?

[Ed Lecuyer]

Unfortunately, not. Unless I really wanted to get deep into PHP script programming.

[Pete "Cosmo" Barrington]

Hi everybody, my name is Pete....
[HI PETE! ]
...and I am a recovering Smiley abuser!

Actually, I agree with the seccond posting.

[Matthew Martin]

I voted keep them, they dont bother me. I just think that in the Proper Nettiquite section, there should be a rule that says that you have a limit of 2 smileys to a post, and if you dont obey it, you get a warning.

I personally dont mind the glowing or marquee features

[Matthew Gustafson]

Sorry but I put on a lot of smilys on because It shows the way how I first think of a new post and my last smily is my final reaction to the post! Heres an example...