User blog comment:Eric the Grape/Enable emoticons for Wikia?/@comment-1393830-20110505053648/@comment-26686429-20110505102623

If you started an indent with D you'd get an emoticon instead, which would be extremely annoying. Better to have them as templates for if a user wants to use them.
 *  Random Time  10:26, May 5, 2011 (UTC)