Board Thread:Wiki Running/@comment-3225604-20150119093006/@comment-3225604-20150120124820

3primetime3 wrote: People may find out that there are emoticons for these words and will purposely swear on chat just to use them. It may lessen what the actual profanity really means.

"When the emoticon is seen, our admins will warn you. If constant swearing is observed (as emoticons and real words), banhammer is going to be smash you."

Therefore, the emoticons won't get you less trouble. Instead, it will give you more trouble.