What is your opinion about emoticons? What, if any, value do they have in sharing ideas on Yahoo Answers?

They don't have value on answering and asking forum and this is not for sharing ideas, it is for asking and answering, they belong in chatting forums where so much young people use them.|||They have no value at all. I've used many forums that allow them. People abuse them. They become soooo annoying that I found I just wanted to close the post. So they are a major distraction and used as toys, not to serve a useful purpose.