User blog:Danielboone6702/Update on Default Emotes

After a long discussion, the admins have finally reached a consensus on default emotes! We've decided to accept Aokpisz's petition for keeping old emoticons as default, which means that the older emoticons will remain default on chat, at least for now. The admins may eventually change some of the default emotes, but if we do, the change will be on a much smaller scale, and we currently have no plans to change widely used emoticons on chat in the near future.

Interestingly, some of the admins did not vote for the petition because they supported the old emotes, but because they considered the community's opinion in their decisions, more so than in other recent decisions. Perhaps this could mark a change in the role that the community plays in decisions on the LMBW.