Status update improvements

[LGC]

The statuses really feel like a half-baked area of the forum, I would hope that they get improved with 4.0. Here are some must have features I want to see:

• Emoticons need to be parsed as a standard feature. Many of the hooks that do this don't even work properly.
• The hook that enables the "like" button for statuses doesn't seem to work, it would also be nice if that was a standard feature.
• Settings to allow for BB code to be parsed
• Settings that can make statuses available only to certain groups
• Settings that can prevent people from deleting comments on their status / locking it
• Multi threaded comments would be a cool feature to add as well

And something not entirely related, but I never liked the profile comments on IPB; I much prefer how profiles look on vBulletin and seeing comments on the main page.