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Smileys!
Yeah, the emotes don't have to be very intuitive to type if you can select them from a list. Since selecting an emote from a list often pastes the code for it in the text, you can then simply learn learn the codes of the ones you like to use most.
Since putting a word or letter between colons to get an emote is commonly used on various sites, codes that would be easy to remember once you learn the system might be :D: for :D, :P: for :P, :): for :), :3: for :3, etc.
And Lenc, stay classy, don't overdo it.
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