Marfitalu: Paying members can use them in their messages for pawns. Pawns just won't see the smiles, that's all. But pawns have ways to know what smile you're using. It's just that some members are new and just don't know where to get that type of information (especially since the help system is still in the making ) and some missunderstandings may arise.

The way I see it, everybody should be able to see whatever formating you put in the messages. After all, sometimes the format is part of the message.
Pawns just wouldn't have access to the special editors that make writing those messages so mush easier, weather it's the smile popup or the RTE editor or whatever else that comes along in the future.

But that's just my opinion and I've already expressed it many times in the past before.