[mir]

First of all i must say i agree to the statement..
but it raises questions to me too...

Allthough i use them rarely there are a few posts where i did use them to stand out in the crowd F.E.: the announcements for the crossing boundaries fanfic in its own thread at the island of arts forum...

Here i've used them so that the links are easy to find amidst the comments given by the people that read the fic.

I know that they are quite prominent but af i see it, and given the message of this threat ...

I wonder...:

1 are those announcements still allowed? (I try to put one in each new page(not post) so them folks do not need to look them up three pages back)

2 you could perhaps limit the possibilities for VB codes and smilies?

mir.