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Hacker News: where we pine for expressive, DIY web of the 90s/00s but pour scorn on anyone adding character to their projects today.

• bzb3 6y ago
  Emoji copypastas are old and hardly original anymore.
• rement 6y ago
  I'm okay with expressive but all the emojis made it a little hard to read. Maybe don't inject them into the middle of phrases. Good use of emoji > the Ubuntu MATE 19.10 interim release is our most actively used interim release to date! :champagne: > Recognising that we’re on to a good thing, :thumbsup: we’ve repeated this trick > Thank you! Thank you all for getting out there and making a difference! :green_heart: Annoying use of emoji > That was a hugely successful :tada: initiative > with developers to highlight :flashlight: where attention was needed. edit: apparently hacker news strips out emojis
  • enriquto 6y ago
    The fact that they are rendered as text provides a good rule of thumb for when they are appropriate : 1. Can you read your sentence without reading the emoji text and it makes sense? 2. Can you read your sentence with the emoji text and it still makes sense (and it means the same thing, with emphasis added)? If the answer to both questions is YES, then using the emoji is OK.
    • grouff 6y ago
      3. Can you easily differentiate your sentence from a teenagers instagram post?
      • MR4D 6y ago
        I didn’t know teenagers on Instagram wrote in sentences. Frankly I thought it was hieroglyphics.