here it goes.. *clears throat* chatbox was made really for chatting. Using of emoticons are implemented because, we all know, it's a chatbox. We have freedom on what we can say there but there are only few rules to abide. One of them is promoting sites or promoting a porn site. It is Illegal and ofcourse, not allowed to. another one is saying profanity , and such bad words. Now let's move on the emoticons, Users sometimes use emoticons here. But using one of it doesn't mean a SPAM. Why? because putting emoticons still make sense. Each emoticons have their own meaning. like this one > which means Happy(for me). so putting it still make sense and won't be considered as SPAM. putting this one > still make sense. because users sometimes feel very happy. That's what the emoticons functions. They exist for usage. not for display only. Let's move to spamming. SPAMs are messages with no sense. example of SPAM is like this one [quote]sdf jkl sdf jkl[/quote] Do you see/find any sense with the message? That is what we call SPAM. SPAM or SPAMMING is not allowed in the chatbox. On FLOODING. This message can be significant or useless. By the means of putting a message then sending it to chatbox many times. like this one [quote]user1: this is my friendster id > ***2** user1: this is my friendster id > ***2** user1: this is my friendster id > ***2** user1: this is my friendster id > ***2** user1: this is my friendster id > ***2** user1: this is my friendster id > ***2**[/quote] flooding is very disturbing for those who are chatting.. example [quote]user1: this is my friendster id > ***2** user1: this is my friendster id > ***2** user2: Hi to you user3 user1: this is my friendster id > ***2** user1: this is my friendster id > ***2** user1: this is my friendster id > ***2** user1: this is my friendster id > ***2** user3: Hi to you to user1 user1: this is my friendster id > ***2** user1: this is my friendster id > ***2** user1: this is my friendster id > ***2** user2: I said hi to you user3[/quote] well, enough for the explanations. I hope you all get what should be done with the chatbox. from your concerned forumer..