Smiley instead of 8

[Anonymous]

At least I assume they're meant to be 8s. I've been seeing this mistake a lot lately and have been wondering what causes this.

[Anonymous]

It's 8 followed by the close parenthesis symbol.

[jsteele]

The system is interpreting that as a "smiley". To prevent it from happening, click the option below the text windows that says "Disable smilies in this message". The problem is, you normally don't realize this is going to happen until you post. Then, if you are anonymous, you can't edit your post to change the option.