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Comment author: [deleted] 15 February 2013 01:27:22PM *  6 points [-]

I think I once saw a comment by someone stating that they had a policy of systematically downvoting all comments containing an emoticon, except exceptionally good ones.

Comment author: prase 15 February 2013 07:32:44PM 3 points [-]

Hope that wasn't me. My dislike for emoticons has somehow waned during recent years and sometimes I even use them myself when I want to be really sure that my interlocutor doesn't misinterpret me as being serious when I am not, but I am the sort of person that has commenting policies and it's not that improbable that this was one of them.

I still hate "lol" pretty passionately, however.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 15 February 2013 07:37:11PM 1 point [-]

I'm ok with LOL, unless it's someone LOLing at their own jokes.

Comment author: Desrtopa 20 February 2013 02:08:38PM 2 points [-]

I don't like lol, but I don't mind it too badly when it's being used where the person would genuinely be laughing out loud. When people use it as a placeholder or punctuation, which is often the case, I regard it as I would someone who actually laughs at inappropriate points in a conversation. Not positively to say the least.

Comment author: [deleted] 16 February 2013 02:15:01PM *  2 points [-]

I'm noticing that I like capital LOL more than lowercase lol: this is either because LOL is an acronym, or because I've just been primed by the two of you.

Comment author: Nisan 16 February 2013 07:36:23AM 1 point [-]

I heard that there's a user who downvotes all comments that don't have emoticons.

Comment author: [deleted] 16 February 2013 11:32:31AM 3 points [-]

o.O

(No, the point of this comment is not to test hypotheses about karma.)