Was I in the wrong?

[JackHatchet]

I see a lot of people jumping to the conclusion that some emotes are just annoying. They should petition Square-Enix to remove annoying emotes. Then they wouldn't be having this problem.

[Ceridwenae]

I see a lot of people jumping to the conclusion that some emotes are just annoying. They should petition Square-Enix to remove annoying emotes. Then they wouldn't be having this problem.

No, that's not what posters in the thread are doing. They're saying some people take the (otherwise acceptable) emotes and use them to abuse other people. The sort of person who uses spam emotes to elicit responses from others is just as likely to create hassles, upsets or other disturbances in other ways should any particular emote be removed. Besides, the OP already said their major beef was their party member wasted time by typing needlessly rude comments from the offending individual in their party. If that party member hadn't the emotes, they still had the capacity to type in stupid. Would we remove the ability to communicate in party chat from everyone because some people say the daftest things? No, we blacklist them, report them if necessary. Just as the OP wisely did. And kudos to the OP for coming back into the thread to clarify their position, and just making the thread in the first place. That's the conscientiousness I personally like to see in a player.

You don't remove things because a few people will do something daft or harmful with them. In general, and noting there is contextual nuance to this statement, you first educate everyone on how to use item X and when not to use item X, and deal with any incidents thereafter within a scaling system relative to the offence. For our purposes, that education is the ToS we all sign up to by playing the game, and our system is the report/blacklist/GM action trio. The GMs will likely have internal guidelines we are not privy to in addition. So, again, no. We needn't descend into the hyperbolic rationale of having emotes removed.