my guess, and it is only a guess is that some or most or all of the Mods may have concerns about this expansion of emoticons based upon their personal experiences over and over gain with interupting the food fights that already occur when members choose to comment on a post with nothing more than a "frowning" smilie. The negative inferences that some of these emoticons can cause is something i have seen over and over again and adding additional images that could be mistrued is not anything i would want to see added to this burden. As well, we already have had problems with members like BenjaminNYC and others who misuse these emoticons to take up several lines of distraction when posting - ever seen 5 lines of smilies as part of a post reply? Well, it is distracting and yes, something that the volunteers have to clean up.

Again, my comments are a balance of what i have seen and experienced, something that the regular member of FlyerTalk may not be all that observant to and would not have had to referee the results.