>>1. Pick your spots
2. Don't overdo it
3. Don't ruin the joke
4. You're still responsible

Good recap wow.

I'll use emoticons for emphasis every once in a while. For example, if somebody has made a joke and I think it was hilarious, I find a wide-smile emoticon says it all.

I find Number 4 to be the most important. How many times have we read a snarky remark with a smiley pasted at the end of it so that the writer could say, "I was only joking." It's the sign of an immature mind who does not stand behind his words.