User blog comment:Penguin-Pal/The spice of chat/@comment-24473195-20150911095512

WHY??? Why can't a community pick its own trustable domains and add them to MediaWiki:Emoticons?

General users are not qualified to make this judgement.

"Why does anyone have to assume that by default, a wiki's goal is to do something malicious with its chat greeting or something?"

Users are not meant to change their interface. They are simply not qualified, and there are multiple examples in Wikia and Wikipedia where people have broken the system simply due to ignorance.

The underlying problem comes from MediaWiki itself (see [1]). If you look at the link you'll note that it is something ongoing for the past decade. Unfortunately to make a site secure you assume bad faith, not good faith.

"What happened to the word 'Fun'!?"

Text based emoticons can be just as fun. Besides, the chat functionality is meant to improve collaboration and wiki building, not simply to play around with emoticons.