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veryworried | 6 years ago

If you ever see emoji in hackernews comments then hackernews, as it has been, is over.

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blueline|6 years ago

..why? i see comments with ':-)' all the time. are the people here so pretentious that they're fundamentally opposed to using an ideogram?

better hope there aren't any closeted road-signage-designers lurking on HN then

veryworried|6 years ago

Emojis are too jocular for the tone we are trying to strike here. They lower the level of discourse down to something more like Reddit or Twitter.