<snip> Userboxes are here to stay. Face facts and STOP BEING DISRUPTIVE! There is a backlog of more than 15000 articles at WP:CU. Go be useful. --Oskar
The very recent changes put in at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:CSD#Templates CSD of, "User templates that express personal beliefs, ideologies, ethical convictions, or viewpoints on controversial issues, or any other templates which are otherwise divisive or inflammatory." will require a lot of cleanup if it sticks, hundreds (thousands?) of templates meet these new critera.
-- xaosflux