[kh99]

Originally Posted by Snowhog

Why then, here, in this forum, where Disable smilies in text is not checked, is there no conversion? Just a difference between this forums version (3.6.12) and our version 4.2?

I'm not sure. I know there is some smilie conversion here, like whenever I try to tell someone about the vB_Template::preRegister() function it comes out vB_Template:reRegister(). Maybe there's some difference in the specific smilies between versions or the ones here have been modified.

I can't find anywhere in the users profile settings where this can be set by default (checked so that conversion does not occur), nor can I find a setting for it in the AdminCP. How do I enable this 'globally'?

It doesn't look like there is any setting for having that checked by default. Probably the easiest thing to do would be to edit the newpost_disablesmilie template and change {vb:raw checked.disablesmilies} to checked="checked".