I have a section that is private to all but 4 people.
i want to have emotes in that section that can only be seen by us.
Is this possible ?

Emotes, as in smileys? Also, you can create a forum or category were you restricted others from seeing it. Read more here: https://help.forumotion.com/t38399-restricted-forums

yes smilies, i already created a private section but, i want to add some smilies for our posts .
i only want people allowed in that section to see the smilies.
so how can i go about that without the smilies showing up in all areas ?
since you have to add smilies in the admin panel they show up for the whole forum.

I don't really think that would be possible..

Maybe creating a separate BB button?
http://www.avacweb.com/t428-13-create-new-bbcodes-with-new-lgbb

ok thanks for your help