Allow a user to disable smileys (because of epilepsy)

[BirdOPrey5]

Hello all- I've been working on this all day and can't believe it's not a simple edit- maybe it is and I'm missing something.

I have a new member who says they are epileptic and they have some concerns that some of my larger animated smileys may trigger a seizure. He already browses with images turned off.

I can't find any option to disable smielys per user but I know it's possible. I've been all through class_bbcode.php trying all the hooks and all the options I can think of to disable smileys and none of it seems to work.

I also searched and searched and can't believe this hasn't been asked before. I found a mod for VB 2.x to do this but the code doesn't work on 3.x.

Anyone have any ideas how to do this via a plugin? Once I get how I will work it into a custom user profile field to let people disable them if they want.

What I had been trying was stuff like:

$allowsmilies = false;
$dosmilies = false;
$do_smilies = false;
$forum['allowsmilies'] = false;

In all the BB Code hooks and the showthread_start/complete hooks.

I really only need disable their view in forum posts- they are almost never used elsewhere.