why don't you make both available so that people can or can't use them as they wish given we seem so split on the issue. For example keep the code for the old 'smile' as it is and make the new version 'smile2' or something. That way everyone is happy(ier).
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To look at a thing is quite different from seeing a thing and one does not see anything until one sees its beauty
Hmmm, war going on here. And all over some emoticons LOL
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Of all tyrannies a tyranny exercised for the good of its victim may be the most oppressive.... those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience