How many of you click on the Smilies to add them and how many know how to type them into the message by hand?
Can you find a animated skull and crossbones J?
I try to never use them, actually. I find the animated ones especially make posts harder to read. I'm an administrator on a TV related web site and we don't even allow them (or signatures for that matter). If you have to read every post in every thread to moderate, those get pretty hard on the eyes really fast! I don't find they're really overused here, though. I've seen some other sites where people put twenty smilies at the close of their post and then have a signature that takes up 1/2 the screen. And then they double post!
I don't use them.
At all.