Board Thread:Community Voting/@comment-5052737-20150217183352/@comment-4845243-20150218072035

A.

The philosophy behind removing the emote is simple. The emote is having a net detrimental effect on the community by exacerbating suggestive comments in chat. For those of us who have seen the before and after, it's clear that there were less suggestive comments before. This is, granted, correlation, not necessarily causation. I think someone (Rio?) suggested that we remove it as a trial, and if the suggestive comments don't change, then we can put it back. The emote is basically designed to look suggestive, so I don't see why anyone is surprised that this happened.