Quote Originally Posted by BLaCKnBLu3B3RRY View Post
if people enable this... then how when others know when that person is directing an emote towards them? this just seems like an odd option to me. why worry about what is other peoples chat box? if they don't wanna see the emote spams can't they just turn off the filter option?

i understand your explanation. and what the feature does. i just don't understand its usefulness.
It has several uses.

Stringing together several poses in a row to make up your own "dance" without spamming the chat logs. Or spamming the same emote over and over just for fun. Or a silly way to see if someone is watching. Or doing the motion for an emote with an alternate meaning:

/scared motion
/em has a brief spasm for no reason.

The animations for emotes can look like lots of things that are different from what the log message says, and it can be amusing to mess around with what it looks like.