No, I won't close my browser and I'd kindly ask you to keep your less than helpful opinions to yourself.
I don't care about Microsoft, why even bring them up? It's not relevant to the discussion at hand, which is the overuse of gifs in the meeting thread and my hope that it won't be replicated in the livestream thread.
Indeed, I was following the thread and will admit I laughed when the first gifs were posted, it was done in the best intentions, but it soon infected the thread and made it annoying to browse. This was doubly annoying as the thread grew so much over the course of a few hours that you naturally assumed that some big news had broken.
I know others love them, which is why I didn't see any point in raising the point in the thread, but I do feel it was overkill and I only mentioned it now in the hopes that it wouldn't go on to be replicated in and make the livestream thread annoying to browse through as well.
well I hope it will be replicated .
You are not fun at all. Be more fun. Live a little. Enjoy Gifs!
p.s. I am sure you can download some extension for chrome or firefox that lets you disable gifs. Here, simple google search gave us this result:
http://www.simplehelp.net/2011/08/04/how-to-disable-animated-gifs-in-google-chrome/
install and enjoy.