pinemikey wrote:However, on another track there's another feature almost every forum has and I hope these ones NEVER get....and that is animated avatars...or any personal avatars for that matter. There's a whole mindless subgroup of humanity obsessed with those worthless things.
Try the posts where 95% of the content is made up of a seemingly random collection of smileys.
(Not that I'm opposed to smileys in principle; sometimes it's better to have 1 smiley than a Tolstoy chapter to clarify meaning, and they can also be funny or entertaining if used well. But when they outnumber the alphanumeric characters of a post, I can't help but feel that someone needs a remedial course in communication skills.)