when you type something like :) it currently gets turned into 
… Personally I’m not a fan of the image and would prefer the text… what do other people think?
deep thoughts, I know
I like the image, but don’t really care much either way.
Prefer text, but don’t mind images much.
A smiley in textual discussion is most of the time a token of appreciation, like a silent nod. A gesture, to set the tone, to not to sound overly critical in a heated open source discussion.
As such, I see the current image as not very appropriate - its tone seems to be one of overly happy, mindless laughter, and not of a smile.
But maybe I am overly sensitive to the tone :)
After seeing them in a few places, I agree. They have a horrible tone. Let’s get rid of them.
I agree, if it were just a friendly smile, I'd be fine with it, but it looks like a huge wide grin, which is usually not the image I wish to convey.
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off now
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I’ve just now signed up. The Welcome to Hugo Discussion message contains emoticons. Here’s an emoticon 
visible to me in the preview (as I write).
Apparently (at this time) the configuration setting for reading/seeing emoticons (or perhaps for writing them) seems to be per-user—rather than being set for all users.
As I interpreted this, he’d like emoticons turned off for all users. Is this possible to do, I wonder?