Excessive Smilies overloading Servers

[Kaelon]

Originally posted by Xenon
Maximum images per post/signature
Maximum number of images to allow in posts / signatures. Set this to 0 to have no effect.

this affects also smilies

Yep, but that doesn't solve the problem, because the smilies are still processed even before the post is rejected - taking up server resources. We need to figure out a way to pre-determine whether the number of smilies in the submitted text exceeds a certain number, before actually processing the thread and converting smilies into image links. The conversion process is surprisingly very server-intensive.

Kaelon