User blog comment:Drew1200/Emoticon Announcements!/@comment-5111283-20131013025329/@comment-4845243-20131013235608

Samed, that's not really true at all. I just find it difficult to understand why people care so much about the emote codes. And Jdude is right, Drew made the decision unilaterally. I have fully supported adding the new emotes, but I do not support using [:P] as the code for the old TS (I think ;p should be used, as that is actually easier to type than :p)— and there was no admin voting on this issue.