At the risk of sounding like a noob (which in many ways, I suppose I am), I'd like to know about emoticons here on the Sift. Quite by accident, I did a "smiley" without a nose and viola! . . . an emoticon! I had seen them before here but never knew what you guys were up to.

Also, I've notice in some music posts that LadyBug can get little musical notes to magically appear.

I'd like to know what keystrokes are involved in placing emoticons etc., here on VS.

Thanks,

Sc