Okey, you don’t like the emoticons/who’s new blocks on the side bar or you consider them annoying? Do you know that you can disable them if you don’t like them?
All you have to do is click on the "my account" link and then select "edit" tab. In the "Block configuration" block you can enable/disable any blocks which you feel are not required for you.
cool tip
this is nice…each person can customize their sidebar…cool feature…but i think we should have a common sidebar for the random surfer who comes across this site…or an unregistered one? i think that needs to be clean and simple…:-)