Are the people who use the spam smilies spammers themselves?

[Dis]

yeah that's the one I'm talking about.

This isn't a spam thread, but an important philosophical question.

[H Tower]

Spam!

[General Ludd]

No, they are helpful denizens of the forum, ever watchful for spam.

[Jaybe]

Nah, they're trying to say something meaningful, expressing their emotion by using an emoticon. Of course, unless they attach some text to it, they are being awfully vague about it.