What's your thought about all the animated smilies (or smileys, don't know for sure how to write it  ) available for forums and instant messengers?
Do you like it or hate them?

And would you use them on your forum or not?

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And what if the smilies are larger then normal ones?
They're indeed more amusing, but I'm always afraid that people will use to many of them in a post.

As long as it's just a small animation I don't really mind.
As long as people don't use to many of them

I like the animated ones.. they're more 'descriptive'.

I don't like the ones that are huge tho..

Like there's a free smiley's pack that comes as a hack to Smf.. Those smileys are just too big.

Harro.. there's a limiting script in Vbulletin that prevents over-use of smileys/images.

Like..you can restrict the user to a specific number of images (smileys included) per post.

I tend to use both static and animated, but only the small animated ones, not the huge ones as those get annoying sometimes. But it all depends on the type of forum you have, for example a webmaster forum should have static smilies, which should only be a tiny bit bigger than the font, a "about everything & fun" forum should have some medium sized funny looking smileys and such.

If you have a fun forum your smileys should be fun as well
But it's fine to use a few funny smileys on a "professional" forum, as long as it are not to many and too big.

animated smilies give more attraction on what are you saying.its better to have a mixture of static and animated smilies