Only text and no smilies makes a post a dull one.

Smilies are used to give life to your words. It gives the reader the first impression, it attracts. When I see a long post with no similes, then I mostly avoid reading that.

One to two smilies per post is good, but excess of any thing spoils the taste and also when you want to scold someone you cant use smilies.

I use them in the shoutbox a lot when I'm joking around or something. I don't really use them that much in posts because it isn't really necessary but if it's something that makes me happy or whatever I'll use them. They are a good tool to have there in case you do wanna show feelings or whatever.

most of the time i do use similies and some times i dont. but when i do i usually use them because im happy that day or i have a little joy in me, and when i dont, i dont usually use them or i just forget about them.

I do use these smilies because they look cute and can sort of represent your facial expressions.

There have been a while since I last time checked out this topi.. and I think till this moment people using smilies are leading by 6 votes .. thats good because I think people who are using smilies are nice like a persons and aint thous angry ones .. and if such more people will be here the nicer forum at Trap17 and more people will be happy to join here .. but this is only my opinion ..

I do on occasions on the many forums I regularly visit (and the few I mod), but when I write out long essays/statements/replies to debates, I tend not to use it as much.

But yeah, there are the odd chatty threads in other forums which tend to use emotes a lot, but I tend to stay out of then considering the post-w^%ring nature. Although its a good thing that many forums tend to have the no-post-count setting enforced to some chatty-like forums.

I use smilies, they help me get a point across. It's impossible to project sarcasm in text, so you just put a smiley at the end, like so.

I hate you all!

See? It works at least.

sometime when i want showed my mood.

I use them an aweful lot, mostly because they show that I'm not serious though. On the net, and really in any writing, it's often hard to see if someone means what they're saying or not. They're best for that, and other things in my case. That and mood.