Right above the comment box, there should be some Pre-made smileys to chose from. Like a smiley one, or an angry one, a sad one and so one. Like perhaps when you put in It would come up with an actually smiley face? I know this isn't the most needed thing currently, but it might be fun.
Actually it have been suggested before. :P But I can't remember what the thread was called, so I can't find it and show you...
I do not like the idea of for example :/ automatically turning into a ...
I prefer my plain text smileys. If you want to be able to use little image smileys, just find one of the webpages that host them and post them the image way. It works just fine.
A lot of smiley images can definitely ruin the text... Less likely when it's just this kind, because they blend in.
So... I AG got its own smileys, PLEASE don't do them so every standard smiley becomes an image. D:
I like the idea but what if people don't wnat smilies in picture, just in text I think it should be optional but still I don't think its that bad of an idea.
Having emoticon smileys here would in several ways spam up everything, be annoying as all holy hell and bring the forums down a notch in respectable levels.
As said, what is wrong with making the smilies with what is already on your keyboards? Has not failed me yet. XD
*overloads topic with annoying smileys until it implodes*