Banned because I'm multi-tasking while grading essays and I have no idea with what you are agreeing. I (semi-recreationally) called third-party sourced smilies "clutter" but it looks like you think they're just plain fun.
banned for I was agreeing with the post above you. Just had the page floating long enough for you to get in ahead of me.
Semi-seriously, I still think a real smile is fundamentally far more fun than any crap on the web, and I expect a picky parent-frakker like you to take a clear position in a debate between local vernacular and global vernacular. It's roughly analogous to the competition between the three flavors of patriarchal theisms spawned by the Semites. Alright, very, very roughly...
I'm not sure how a smiley on one site or another is more fun. They're smileys. I also wonder when I became a parent-frakker. Not sure how that fits, so fill me in. I'm not going to worry about vernacular, as 'frak' is being used as a word here. And yes... very roughly.