Anyone else fed up with posts that are just a smiley or similar?

Mentioning no names (you know who you are!), is anyone else irritated by looking at updated threads only to see the only addition is a post that is simply a smiley or “sorted” or “thanks for sharing” or similar. It wastes a lot of time clicking on threads to find this.
Am I missing something – are there prizes for getting your post count up?

I can sort of accept it when the person posting has been involved in the thread but when someone else who hasn’t comes along and adds a smiley or similar at end I just think why?

I’m not being too serious so don’t take offence anyone but would be interested to know what people think.