Emoticons?

Do you think it would be a good idea to be able to use emoticons on here? I've seen them used on other sites and think it would be fun to be able to show expressions along with our answers. All in good fun of course! What do you think?|||this suggestion has already been bandied about here and on the forum. The general opinion is it wouldn't be a good idea because it would change the format of the site into a chatroom which is not what Yahoo had in mind when they started Answers.|||http://togetherenjoy.blogspot.com/

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|||I think that's a great idea but considering the volume it likely isn't feasible to add any thing more that takes up more space.|||In September 1982 Scott Fahlman proposed to use the original ASCII emoticons :-) and :-( that are supposed to be read sideways. Since then the list of emoticons has been growing constantly, may be found everywhere on the internet and are used on this forum. What you are talking about are smilies though, right? To tell you the truth, I'd still prefer the ASCII emoticons, but this is just my personal taste...