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The smileys are a great way to express emotion, but sometimes they can be downright annoying if you don't want them to appear in certain situations. Like the way the custom smileys are triggered, (by using colons) the default smileys should be triggered the same way.

Well, that depends. They're much easier to remember if they're the regular smileys characters everyone use.
On most sites, it automatically detects them.

Which ones are a problem, especially?

I think one of the major ones is the "lol" smiley. There's also the icon. I personally prefer the text variant over the actual icon.