The Miracle Solution
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Made you jump.
THey're the most horrific insult to the artist or builder imaginable, right? Every time you use one, a baby seal dies or something like that. They're four, five, six, even seven (and they can go even higher) characters of pure, putrid horror. A stain on the Creative Outlet or some othersuch.
I bring forth the most modest of proposals in dealing with them, and I can vouch for its efficency on even the smallest of scales:
Ignore them.
Don't post huge things in the first post stating how horrible they are. Don't verbally roll your eyes at every instance of them. Don't get on people's cases just for using them, even if the words in the post itself are perfectly fine. They're four, five, six, even seven (sometimes higher) characters. You can skip over them. Just act like they aren't there in the first place. It's really not that hard. Once you get in the habit, it's the easiest thing in the world.
I started doing this myself many moons ago. I'd like to think I'm a happier denizen of the Creative Outlet for it. You guys call them 'irrelevant'. If they're really so irrelevant, why do you get so uptight about them?
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