Reading 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 H

Reading 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.