Compressors...I don't like them

lukedlb

 I play a strat. 

ESBlonde

Guitar compression is one of those things that works well for some styles with the obvious examples being choppy funk and chickin pickin country, though by no means restricted to those genres.
If you are using compression like any other effect you are probably doing it wrong, subtle is the name of the game. Set it for subtle interaction and play through it for a few days, then turn it off....That's when you notice what it did and how you'd incorporated it into your playing.
Of course if you use mainly some form of clipping/overdrive/distortion then you already have some compression in your sound and so adding more may not be the best thing. My favourite overdriven and compressed guitar sounds tend to come from Alan Murphy where the note attack is pulled in but the bloom and sustain is the feature you notice.

richardhomer

I quite like compression when you can here it - the ‘Walking on the Moon’ chord, the lead part on Dire Straits’s ‘Single Handed Sailor’ and (inevitably) ‘Another Brick in the Wall’.

Sassafras

I don't think it's any different to any other effect, if it's overused it soon becomes tedious.