Why no response by admin?
@Xyphien has been a busy man, but now that I have tagged him he will more than likely see this and elaborate on this issue for us the next time he is back on :)
He is right. I have been extremely busy. I won't be on much tomorrow, or the day after either sadly. I'm trying to hop on as much as I can the last few days, but we've been hit with a lot of stuff we had/have to do.
As for this, this should already be set to : + 3 :3 I added the E : as well, I'll simply remove this tag and keep the rest as is.
As for just turning them off, or adding () around everything, I'm not really a fan of that, because then members will have to manually go through the smiley list, or type (:3) and it'd take a lot longer, and people simply would not use them. So then, we'd have plain old, boring emoticons half the time, followed by smileys the other half. I personally see nothing wrong with this as of now, though I am more than happy to change any smileys that prove a huge problem.