How many smilies is too many?

[Justin]

I have been on board will all different mixed of smilies, literally hundereds. It was weird. It takes for ever for a page to load and natrually the admin's posts are full of smilies.


What do you think?

I like one smilie set that isn't too messy.

 

[Expired Account]

1 set of smiley's is enough for me, but a few others is good for a laugh sometimes.

 

[cityStatic]

As long as they aren't all on the clickable smiley list, they're fine. Then you have forums that have thousands of smilies and they're all on the list.

 

[Impulse]

One set of the common smileys should be enough. A couple different/unique smileys wouldn't hurt either.

I don't see any reason to include more than that though, because they just make the site look messier and having hundreds of smileys doesn't really do the forum any good.

 

[Justin]

As long as they aren't all on the clickable smiley list, they're fine. Then you have forums that have thousands of smilies and they're all on the list.

Well then you see people using oddly shaped large smilies on posting pages which makes it harder to read and it takes a while to load.

You can't do anything about it because it's a smilie 😛

 

[Justin M]

One set of the common smileys should be enough. A couple different/unique smileys wouldn't hurt either.

I don't see any reason to include more than that though, because they just make the site look messier and having hundreds of smileys doesn't really do the forum any good.

I agree. Having too many smilies is unprofessional.

 

[Nebulous]

I have 443 on mine. 😀
The members like the selection. In fact Ive received lots of compliments for having a good selection to choose from. Ive had that around many on my previous forums as well. Always a big hit with the community.

 

[PurpleCrow]

We have loads of smilies, but they all match and only the basic smiley set is on the main page, to get the others you have to click "more" so they arent used all that often, mainly on welcome and birthday threads.

 

[AnAccount]

I think only one or two smilie paks is enough. You don't need 500 smilies for members to choose from. Thats way too much in my opinion.