Board Thread:Community Voting/@comment-26047195-20150722031058/@comment-25595629-20150722032011

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...