On the main site, sometimes it would be nice to have more choice of smileys. Ben68 has a few more on his profile page, but can anyone give some links to sites where I can quickly find some free smileys (I'm not paying) which will work on this site. One smiley I'd particularly like is something looks like an evil/devilish grin.

I feel the same, but it's odd that you want more since you are against them enough

There are lots on the forum but as most of the smiley codes are usernames of people of another forum (where there was 1 smiley / user) it is not always easy to find them.
Anyway, for most of the smileys of the forum you can put their code between [: and ] , e.g. [: 666] without space gives

Yes but finding the one you want exactly on the forum is annoyingly difficult, most of them are just too big and don't express anything useful.

It's nice to have one for the right occaision, I just got tired of seeing the winking and smiley face emiticons being used all the time.

There are a lot of smileys on the forum to look through, I guess I'll have to choose a few and make a note of the codes. Thanks for showing me the devil smiley again, Antoine.

If there are smilies that you find useful and that you or others often use, just ask and I add them on the site, like I added the ":beer:" smiley for example.
As long as there are not hundreds of smileys, it is not a problem.

I don't know if you can add a couple of smiley in the this database. Here is couple I frequently used in this site from another site. I use the big grin smiley and embarrassed smiley. What are the legal aspect about "copying" the smiley to this site? Thanks

They are from phpbb so you would have to check phpbb's licence for that, I suppose. The 1st one is very similar to " " (and shares the same code, if I am right?)

It would be useful to copy a few more smileys in your "list of available smileys". There's not much choice.

The original site I used for big grin is ":-D" and the embarrassed smiley is ":oops:"

I would like to have the rolling eyes at the database ( ), also that one:

I'd like ... I like to admit it when I get it wrong!

indeed that one could be useful
I do not like the "oops" smiley due to its phpbb-style, and I find these phpbb icons ugly. I should try to find one with a style simimar to the icons currently used on the site.
@ingo > these icons tend to be aggressive... I am not sure it is good to have these easily usable.

I have put together a list of websites where I have found an extensive list of free smileys for my sites.

runemasterstudios.com/graemlins
smileys.on-my-web.com
thesmilies.com
websitegoodies.com/smilies.php?cat=happy
mazeguy.net/smilies.html
planetsmilies.net
mysmiley.net

Can you add a smiley shortuct for the star for vehicle ratings?
Then if I wanted to list a star rating in the comments I wouldn't have to copy the path to the star gif or say
"1-star in ep 2.03: (screenshot)"
I could just type:
":star: in ep 2.03: (screenshot)"

There is one (ok, not written anywhere, but you see it if you quote a comment with one in it), just put [*] and it will appear as a star (so you can type [*][*] for 2-star, etc.)

Ah! Thanks for the info

Thanks for listing those websites, Rockracer! The smiley site I used to use for extra smiley doesn't seem to work anymore.

Sure thing man. I hope they help.