Limiting smilies?

[Katrina]

Do you limit smilies on your forum?

I was just on a forum (it's huge and has been around for a long time) where I could only use the standard smilies that they pre-approved and not too many could be used either. I kept getting a warning message when I was replying to someone and apparently I couldn't even quote anyone who used a smiley that I could not. Staff had access to more smilies as well as people who were site supporters. So annoying that I couldn't even quote them without having to manually remove the smiley myself.

 

[scooter]

Just the opposite: I like adding lots of smilies. The idea of my forum is to allow people to express themselves.

 

[Page]

I say the more the merrier without having spam and site being slow as flip if the server can keep up

 

[Deleted member 49125]

On Proboards, we have Default ones. However, members can also add in their own Personal Smilies. If people want to use them, I say go for it. Helps to make a post more individualized.

 

[Jay™]

I love using them as it expresses the mood, I have many funny ones installed on one of my sites and members love them. 😳
😉

 

[Sharon]

That's interesting. I've never come across that before. I wonder what unfortunate event occurred to prompt the admin to set such restriction.

 

[Page]

On my end I have added allot, but have not edited them in years