What's the point of this? Besides the fact that you can type this in way quicker than the time it takes to select those options through the UI, it's another mechanism that devalues the average post content.<p>I think we could simplify this by replacing the entire post mechanism with a smiley button that you can click on, say every full hour, to let the world know you still exist. ;)
They should use this for "likes".<p>Death of a celebrity? 50000 people feel sad, 2000 people feel happy.
I think that would be much more appropriate than 52000 likes.
A similar feature has been available on other websites for many years such as livejournal (from what I heard at least, I haven't used it). Now that I see how it works on facebook, it strongly reminds me of journals on deviantART, it seems to ask the exact same questions.