dw_suggestions | Remove emoticons for commenting

Title:
Remove emoticons for commenting

Area:
Comments, images

Summary:
The little emoticons that you can choose to include with a comment are really showing their age. They should be removed entirely or, failing that, updated.

Description:
I'm fairly sure that the little emoticons that can optionally be attached to comments haven't been updated at all since I joined LJ back in 2001, and it sure does show.

They're already fairly well hidden. They're not available through quick reply at all, and through the regular comment interface, the only indication that they exist at all is a tiny greyed out smiley.

Personally, I'd like to see them just removed entirely. They look ugly, add a bit of extra clutter to the interface and the code, and don't really serve much of a useful purpose. What I presume was their intended purpose has now been largely superseded by people having and using a wide variety of user icons.

If we want to keep them, though, we should at least completely replace them all with newer graphics.

Poll #1605 Remove emoticons for commenting

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 63

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Should be implemented as-is.
43 (68.3%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
11 (17.5%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
5 (7.9%)

(I have no opinion)
4 (6.3%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

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My "with changes": I quite like them, but completely agree on them being outdated. I'd love to see them revamped rather than deleted. (I wouldn't mind terribly if they were, but it's sort of cute to have something extra to express things.)

Yes, this - I voted "shouldn't" because I'd rather still have the outdated ones than lose them entirely, but I wouldn't mind seeing them updated (as long as there was still a gold star among the updated ones!)