Originally Posted by
nroscoe
so if I understand your point: you reject the entire concept of avatars, etc, with it's feature to turn off YOUR viewing of images knowing that it will deny me and others who OPT-IN the ability enhance OUR user experience?
I rather look at it the other way around.
I'm happy with the set of images we have today. You want to deny me their use by forcing me to turn them off if I dislike the new set.
In addition, like it or not, smilies are part of the "text". Turning them off means losing part of the conversation.
That is why I leave them on in the other fora I frequent, even though their presence is a continual low level of annoyance.