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I wish you would stop suggesting this. I could be wrong about the following, but until you click “Post it!” emoticons are considered text. Any attempt at limiting emoticons will have to decrease the number of allowed characters in a post. What do you suggest? Allowing no more than 30 characters in a single post?

... you realize that the engine already has to do some level of parse-and-check at post time to limit “excess” image links, right? Having it also check for “excess” emotes wouldn’t be that much harder.

That said, for no real defensible reason, I dislike the idea of a hard limit on emotes.