I'd like to see this, or at least the toggle. I'd say to the people who aren't very animated when they speak IRL: while that may absolutely be the case, you're actually speaking and there's no delay between what leaves your mouth and when people hear it. Such is not the case on a text-based server, and a simple toggle of the sort could help people more fluidly animate while in conversation and provide a teensy bit of life to an otherwise static experience.
Either way, it doesn't stop me from using anims in the meanwhile.
