I also fail to see the point in deleting them. Also, none of your lists agree. I don't know how we're supposed to decide. Some people say we should get rid of the machine gun one, but people use it all the time. People suggest we get rid of ? That's just about the only smilie I use! The smilies are about 1k each. It doesn't affect load times at all.

The one thing I can see serving a purpose is getting rid of duplicate smilies. Smilies that are almost identical that is. And maybe some of the more strange ones like Bleys' head with a banned sign. If you can all agree on something else then let me know.

EDIT: The other thing I can see working is to replace all smilies with some kind of "theme" of similar smilies. But who knows. Just an idea.