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Posted by: Achronos
The lack of custom avatars and smilies is by design. The first is because we don't feel like managing the Internet's collective perversions (or dealing with issues of hosting images that we don't own). Smilies are just stupid looking - cluttering up the actual content. Same goes for signatures. They just clutter up the page - if someone wants info about you, they can click through to your profile. Most users won't, because, well, they don't care.
While there are a few features that we probably do need to add, they're mostly in the realm of sorts/searching. You know, useful stuff, not silly stuff like smilies.
The same could be said for avatars though. They're just as stupid and unnecessary as smilies, and even clutter up the page somewhat.
It's not like I would use them myself, but not implementing smilies because they look 'silly' seems like a cop out - especially considering numerous things on this site could be considered the same.
Time stamp anyone?