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Reading a discussion thread where each message is just a link to some pastebin with the actual message isn't very nice. Besides, I wasn't going to write the mes
by mort96 2y ago
Reading a discussion thread where each message is just a link to some pastebin with the actual message isn't very nice. Besides, I wasn't going to write the message again after HN removed arbitrary parts of it, hence the edit; I think people got the gist. You may feel that discussion about Unicode doesn't belong on HN but I feel otherwise.
- lisper 2y agoReading discussion threads full of silly emojis isn't "very nice" either, at least for a certain kind of audience. It's a tradeoff, and the powers that be at HN have decided to optimize for sober discussion over expressivity. It's a defensible decision. Keeping HN from degenerating into Reddit is already hard enough.