No Change/Rejected a way to disable emotes

[rapperdan]

so upon doing things like TLR it auto formats to a smiley face upon posting is there anyway to disable this? or possibly add something that will disable emotes when you wish for them to not auto format into the such in cases like this one?

example can be found in the above picture

 

[sneaK]

:D testing

Edit: Use the plain tags

[plain]:D testing[/plain]