SE why is shake drink a persistent emote, of all things?

[Dirwen]

The problem is many people using it then afking cause they know it's annoying.

[CamuiKushi]

I'm shocked the tea sip emote isn't persistent, especially considering it's a paid emote.

[sindriiisgaming]

I'm seriously giving y'all the side-eye at the decision making on hand here. Someone thought it was a great idea to let people set up this shaker and just afk to be an annoyance forever, but we still need to macro wait commands for any lengthy degree of Read, Tomestone, and numerous others. What..?

If you're going to do this with the shaker at least go back and fix the ones that actually make sense.

SQUARE, a mute for this emote please. im sick of hearing it 24.7 in large cities

[JimCasey_RF6]

Just make believe that they are holding maracas and making a little rhythm for you. Dawntrail is the Latin American expansion after all. We need more maracas for authenticity.

[Eyrilona]

In a funny twist, I have my sound effects dialed down by default, so reading this thread was actually the first time I became aware that the shake drink emote makes a noise.

[Sated]

I don't mind the shaker, it's a little repetitive but it has enough variety that it isn't too obnoxious and I can tune it out like crafting.

But I guess I'm comparing it to sweep, which is such a jarring and awful sound that I just blacklist anyone who's left their character AFK /sweeping. Sweep should not have been a persistent emote, or they could re-record the sweep sounds to be more varied.

There are other emotes that are much more deserving of a looping emote than sweep and shake though...
/read should absolutely be persistent. And I still don't understand why /scheme is but /converse isn't.
The Little Ladies' Day /ladance was done dirty too; I feel like it should either loop or persistently hold at the final fan pose.