I've had several people comment on how they find the celebrity emoticons I use to be rather annoying but likewise, I've also had several others mention that they enjoy and find them to be funny. I figured why not put everything on the table and come to a conclusion as I'll gladly roll with majority vote to either ban my emoticons or continue using them sparingly. As for my case: I honestly don't see how anyone could find them "annoying". They aren't huge, taking up peoples screens. I hardly ever use more than one or two per post. Someone in another thread compared them to the poster here who would only leave posts in italics. Something I could see becoming annoying, especially if it's straining your eyes while reading - but these tiny emoticons don't interfere with the text. They just compliment them. And I use them because they capsulate so much of what I'm feeling during each particular post. Sometimes better than I can explain in words. So to the jury of CF, I ask of you to not see this as a posting hinderance - but rather a posting enhancement. Just another tool used to further express oneself through the vast collection of emotional faces one can't enjoy while separated by computer screen. I may have gone overboard on the number of smilies used in one post before - but I have since then grown. Grown to understand that these smilies only hold the weight of emotion only without over abundance. Plus, since no one else uses them, I feel it adds more character to me as a poster of this fine fine community. (Although everyone else is free to use them however they desire) I leave you all with different examples of said emoticons for you to review and conjure up a decision. Thank you for your time. Spoiler
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They're: A) Annoying B) Immature C) Unnecessary D) Narcissistic E) All of the above. The correct answer is E.
Dude who gives a ****? Do whatever you want. It's pretty stupid if someone needs to criticize a person over their use of emoticons... Even Swoly isn't annoying because of the emoticons.
How can you find smileys annoying? Keep em coming, why do you care what they think? You shouldn't care what I think, you liked posting em so keep doing it.
Here's the thing: when I look at this board, one of the things I love about it is the clean interface. Nobody trashing the place up with ridiculous avatars and absurdly huge sigs. I don't like opening the door, even slightly, for people to turn this board into something like lakersground or that kind of garbage. I like to think we're better than that. So I say dump 'em. Keep the BBS uncluttered.
