Thread:Sgt D Grif/@comment-7974155-20141031111948/@comment-4403232-20141031141046

I'd recommend going around and seeing which emotes are actually genuinely missed and used by the majority of users and which ones are just a "Oh people only miss it now that it's gone" and then giving the list of truly missed emotes to Preda or Ned.

The reason why she removed them is that Ned had been repeatedly asked to trim the unseeable and unused emoticons and never bothered to do so, which lead to Preda finally taking the initiative herself. We had quite a few that were incoherent messes of moving pixels, and a few completely random unused ones set up by Ned and old admins.

Unfortunately, discussion or even common sense was never applied in the creation of most of the emotes, which lead them to be a large mess. Many of the emotes were shoved on without a single thought of "What would this look like at 19 pixels big". Just as some people are upset some were removed, others are upset that some still remain, including the replacements for standard emoticons. Hopefully a solution that the majority of users will enjoy will be reached.