Board Thread:Community Voting/@comment-26047195-20150722031058/@comment-25595629-20150722032627

ZXSpidermanXZ wrote:

Starrocks923 wrote:

Zaney2522 wrote: Oppose. it would be EXTREMELY annoying for people who dont like screwing around, and actually wanna talk. That's why emotes exist, though-so people can screw around without using actual words.

Look at the fish emote, or the robot, or the evil face, or the Nyan Cat. Why describe how elated you are when you can just use a smiley face? Why talk about your depression when you can just frown? Why use ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) when you could just be bold and use words to create innuendo in chat? (Please don't.)

A 24-hour lack of emotes would be amusing, and perhaps even a sigh of relief. I do ask that this be enacted when I'm not on my New York trip, though... I think you're exaggerating a bit. :P I mean usually people still say what they would normally say without emotes, and just add an emote at the end to convey exactly what they mean. I understand we have a lot of emotes but we don't use all of them, and I haven't seen any that we haven't gotten rid of specifically have a negative impact on the community. It all depends on how you view "negative". All I'm saying is, try the 24-hour ban and see what happens.