The chat is different software than the software for the forum itself. The chat software package includes all those icons.

I questioned myself why there are so many violent icons available in chat (like the ax and I think there is even a gun) and docjohn explained they are just part of the chat software and can't really be changed easily.

It may be easy to add icons to the forum markup, depends on the software, but I know at a different site there were all sorts of custom icons available. That was different software than DocJohn is using though so doesn't necessarily mean it is something he can do here, but couldn't hurt to ask.

If he can add custom icons he would then need a suitable graphic for "crying" which wouldn't be hard, but if it didn't match the size and style of the other icons so it doesn't drive the OCD people here crazy (seriously, it would bug me if there was one icon that didn't match all the others... but I'd get over it if an icon could be added. I'm not Monk .

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