Letting people live their own lives to the fullest is much more important than making sure you, I, a future historian, or any other third party understands what they are saying. "lol" and "minivan" don't have thousands of years of agreed-upon semantic meaning behind them.Ī final thought - whether you think emojis are a terrible idea might not be relevant to whether they should exist. There is precedent for this too - this is why we have acronyms and new words. People have limited time every day to get their ideas across, and they deserve ways of conveying their ideas concisely. "Why can't people be bothered to spend even a little time to write down what they think?" It's an accessibility issue. "So then just explain it!" some might respond. Using a single character, you can now convey certain thoughts and sentiments that you previously needed many more characters to reference or explain. Language is just an encoding for ideas, and emojis are a new compression algorithm. But this isn't true for many things people want to talk about today. If everything you care to talk about can be easily described using thousand-year-old ideas, then I can see why you are against emojis. It gives HN an identity among all the other news aggregators and forums. It's not perfect, it's not the best, but I feel like it fits the general vibe and nature of the site. There's a minimum amount of distractions, most users find reasonable ways to communicate the context of the content of their posts and scrolling through most threads tends to be a mostly uniform experience where if users are following a few established conventions, you can follow the flow of things pretty well. My main point is, I like the simplicity of it all, sure it could be better, but better doesn't necessarily lead to better quality content. But, those were just some reasons off the top of my head, i'm sure when HN was being programmed a bit more thought went into it, or maybe not, who knows? You're right i'm sure the tiles or playing cards could be used like that too, it may be arbitrary, I don't know. I dunno, I like the 'hackish' nature of it. >Which would be way less likely if HN actually supported quotes. > I really can't stand when people use those for quotes There's no fancy nonsense getting in the way of things.Īctually, that's part of why those code block things piss me off, they're probably the fanciest piece of formatting you can do and all it does is obstruct information and make me waste time while reading. Other than that though, hn's formatting makes everything uniform and fairly easy to read through. I really can't stand when people use those for quotes. The only thing i really despise about hn's formatting is the code blocks or whatever they are, the one on mobile that vanishes off the side and you have to scroll horizontally to read everything. You focus more on the content of your comment than making it look pretty. The markup's not great, but too much formatting is distracting. Musical notes, you got me, can't really think of anything too bad for those. Sounds like they blacklisted things likely to clutter up the comment threads and left things unlikely to be used.Ĭountry flags seem like they could be used for political trolling.ĭie faces could lead to weird rolling threads or other things. It’s the sort of thing that can be used/abused in many different ways. At a previous employer we’d often just send “taco_emoji?” to ask who was buying lunch. Of course, there are many subcultures that use emoji in different ways and as proxies for other things as well. “Thumbsup_emoji” is a substitute for some marginally harder to articulate feelings of “looks good / I like it” This includes irony - “eggplant_emojii” is often a non-serious reply indicating that “I am jokingly acting like this this is sexual or attractive” Emojis allow one to instantly mark a piece of writing as informal/non-serious with minimal effort. It can be hard to communicate tone through writing. “Do you want to have a BBQ bbq_emojii ?” says to me that the writer is older and less hip. “Praying_emojii flame_emojii YASS” indicates to me that the writer is young and hip. It’s an ingroup signal, indicating (by “correctly” using emoji) that you’re part of a specific subculture to the recipient.
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