User blog comment:Drew1200/Emoticon Announcements!/@comment-5052737-20131012094626/@comment-4041224-20131012110337

In case of manual trannies it isn't, but when it comes to politics, economy, layouts of web pages, your opinions on transcendency, it surely is.

Having said that, I think text smilies look significantly better than any emote every employed on chat.