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The process is described here: https://www.unicode.org/emoji/proposals.html#process https://www.unicode.org/emoji/proposals.html#process The list of past propo
by yorwba 1y ago
The process is described here: https://www.unicode.org/emoji/proposals.html#process https://www.unicode.org/emoji/proposals.html#process
The list of past proposals is here: https://www.unicode.org/emoji/emoji-proposals-status.html https://www.unicode.org/emoji/emoji-proposals-status.html Most have been declined.
- Palomides 1y agokinda mad guillotine got rejected, it concisely expresses a very popular sentiment
- harwoodr 1y agoI'm more disappointed that "Dumpster Fire" hasn't made the grade four times.
- jowea 1y agoWould controversial emojis even get widespread support? Look at what happened to gun emoji.
- throw0101d 1y ago"Dumpster fire" is a idiomatic phrase in English/US, so may not be universal enough. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumpster_fire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumpster_fire
- harwoodr 1y agoI'm not an American... but "bin fire" seems to be a thing too.
- account42 1y agoWhich is really the root problem with emojis: they're a top down definition of what concepts you are allowed to communicate.
- squigz 1y agoIf you're only allowed to communicate in emojis, I guess? Other than that I'm not sure what bearing emojis have on what I'm allowed to talk about.
- bell-cot 1y ago"Gun", "knife", and a fair number other emoji's are nerfed. Perhaps too much for many HNers. But not nearly enough for anyone who's had a stalker.
- account42 1y agoAh yes, because outlawing wrongspeak prevents people from communicating those concepts. People like you are giant eggplant emojis.
- bell-cot 1y agoPreventing people from "communicating those concepts" is your strawman, not the goal of the Unicode org. Regardless of whatever lip service they might give to "This little thing, plus Santa's naughty list, will magically make all the children nice" fantasies. They are a big org, doing normal big org things, and trying to dodge the Bad PR spotlight. But glancing at your karma - are you contributing to a platform (HN) which outlaws wrongspeak, when you should start truly living your values?
- account42 1y agoIn the spirit of the discussion I'll respond in image form: https://iea.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/mister-gotcha-4-9faefa-1.jpg https://iea.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/mister-gotcha-... Perhaps Unicode should also include an emoji for this concept.
- shmeeed 1y agoDo you assume that a stalker would be deterred by the lack of a knife emoji? I can't seem to follow the logic here.
- carrozo 1y agooh that was me who wrote the proposal for it. https://www.carrozo.com/guillotine-emoji https://www.carrozo.com/guillotine-emoji
- Palomides 1y agothank you for trying!
- bigstrat2003 1y agoThey should all have been declined. Emojis are not text and have no place in a text encoding standard.
- Spivak 1y ago:)
- bombcar 1y ago𓂺 Even if you got rid of emojis, people would find a way. Even on Hacker News.
- account42 1y agoThe big difference between text emoticons and emojis is that emoticons are not defined by a committee.
- Rebelgecko 1y agoRFC 9078 stans in shambles
- anigbrowl 1y agoUgh, I really don't care for their selection process. Emoji should be open source even though that means there will be nazi emoji and porn emoji, it should be up to the user which ones they use. The selection committee seems like a very arbitrary group and many of their decisions seem equally arbitrary.
- lifthrasiir 1y agoThis has been already brought up multiple times with multiple different proposals, all of which were unsatisfactory to this date.
- rkomorn 1y agoI don't know if you've ever used even remotely popular slack instances, but I'd say the flood of new reactions people are constantly adding on the slack instances (including corporate ones) I've been on is not something I'd want to see repeated for emojis.
- Freak_NL 1y agoUseful feature though, but just for limited audiences (not just Slack of course, Mattermost does this too). We have a grammar Nazi flag, a rubber duck, and an animated dancing banana.
- rkomorn 1y agoI like it! And I've been guilty of adding my own. But yes, limited audiences. Exactly that.
- BeFlatXIII 1y agoIs the Grammar Nazi flag the Grammarly logo but with a swastika instead of the G?
- Freak_NL 1y agoThis one is a stylised black square 'G' rotate 45° on a white circle in a red field. Definitely off-colour dev humour for internal use; but that has its place.