Its pretty important to me. And yeah meadow would have posted in other threads for a couple of days, but people would have ignored and ripped on her, and it would have made her leave. Symbols have a lot of power in the human mind, and as long as someone was forcing her out of every single thread she tried to make and only providing the option to be made fun of in other's threads..
It makes a person a lot less powerful. It seems ridiculous, but trust me, i've seen this done tons of times.