Look, these emojis and graphical smilies may be hip and trendy, but I'm an old fart and I prefer my emoticons in pure, unadulterated ASCII. Please give us a way to embed emoticons without having them automatically turned into some graphical abomination. Ronald Reagan agrees. 7:-] As it is when I try to type a simple : D (note I had to put a space in there) it gets turned into :grinning: and in the chat system it gets turned into :grinning:D