Adding 'emoticon-styled' icons.
The forum is not working as intended (see broken search function) and likely not open to custom things like you suggest due to a fall out between the forum contractor and Anet:
The problem is deep within the technology behind the forum structure itself. Yes, we had a search engine in the beginning, but it was broken by our forum contractor in the course of working on other things. We no longer have a relationship with that contractor or his company, and someone else is not able to step into the system and fix the search engine because (1) our programmers are tasked with other essential work, (2) the forums run on a web framework with which most of our programmers are not familiar and (3) we’re investigating other options for forums and it would not be prudent to pour money into hiring someone to fix this as a short-term solution.
Maybe that is something that might work in the future if Anet goes with some other forum software.
(edited by JustTrogdor.7892)