I don't see anything in my post that looks disrespectful.
And I put that smiley in quite a few of my posts, it's not necessarily meaning to be taken as sarcasm or meant to be rude, I just do it because sometimes I'm either unsure if things are okay or not. Or sometimes I just feel like using the smiley considering it's for "look". So I might just use it to look around or whatnot.
You could've just posted your reply in the thread where I posted the comment, but yeah. And I hadn't visited that thread in a bit so that's why I was just trying to say that. And I found it a bit uncalled for since this wasn't the thread I posted it in, and it was quite random from where I stand.
I didn't mean to sound that way, but sorry if you took it that way.