@Pair of Hearts It seems like the visitor-message system would still be ideal for that, like sending someone an emoticon like this:
i.imgur.com/95Mi9XX.gifv if we had one.
Though the visitor-message system is probably the Guild's most neglected feature, hidden behind a tab, kinda crappy, and doesn't even notify you on replies. If people aren't "poking" via VM, it's mostly my fault for keeping the feature so underdeveloped and underutilized.

Eventually I'd like to kinda merge the user profile into a feed sort of thing like on Xenforo/vBulletin forums where visitor-messages are as casual as can be.