I suggest first, and foremost, that the icon for the "Things I Hate" be a red minus sign, instead of the green plus sign. Green pluses are for good things.
Second, I suggest that when you type "/me words go here" in the chat it acts like an emote in IRC (Internet Relay Chat) and drops the colon after the nick, and to signify it as an action, turns the line gray. It makes for more visually pleasing actions than putting *action*.