I disagree. It would be nice if everyone learns to always add some content to their posts. It's not hard at all.

What's the definition of content? Why isn't a smilie or a .gif "content" if they're used to express a thought? Why is it any different to post "congratulations! " vs. " "

There are hundreds of posts made here each week that contain text but don't add to discussion in any meaningful way at all.

Im liking the argument about the smilie/gif-only posts. (I'm still pressed about my WPs )

How many point did you get?

God bless SolarFlare and that thread, I hope you all get laid this weekend

Oh, God!

If Rihanna's album flops, I won't be staying here either. I would be like gtfo here. lmao

She will get that number 1 album tho

It looks less spammy if there's at least some text. In the end it's a discussion about forum aesthetics and not the actual quality of the content.

Oh so the "pointless" points just stem from some weird autistic need for posts with words in them?

This may be off topic and I may get warned, but Michael Buble's re-release of his Christmas album will block everyone including Rihanna this holiday season.

And on topic, I'm gonna miss Slayana. I don't think I'll ever make a selfish move to ask for a perma ban because I've made so many friends here.

I would be getting more Rihanna hit threads now when less Navy is here, especially I want that tour thread.

Bye Zomba

That would be nice of us. They could really use it.

I guess. Just seems needless and nitpicky when people post the same .gif over and over and aren't adding much text to it each time. I don't think there have been any compelling arguments to categorize smilie/.gif-only posts as "pointless."

Like this post wouldn't get warned:

But this post would be:

If you want a pop music forum mainly aimed at teenagers to be devoted solely to substantive discussion then a) good luck not going to happen and b) you'd need to make much more sweeping changes, like disallowing .gifs altogether (which I don't think anyone who enjoys ATRL for what it is wants).

As it is it just seems rather arbitrary and a waste of everyone's time to be warning the smilie/.gif-only posts when often they're expressing a thought just the same as one that has like three words of text, so they're almost never really "pointless," in which case y'all should come up with a better rationale for disallowing them.